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So I decided its time to dump gameservers. I’m going to build a 1U rack server, then stick it in a data center connected to a T3 connection.

So here are the server specs I’m thinking of buying.

ABIT IL9 Pro LGA 775 Intel 945P ATX Intel Motherboard
Cheap 1U Rack
Server 300Watt PSU.
Intel Xeon 3060 (2.4ghz) 1066 FSB and 4 mb shared cache.
2x1GB Kingston 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) ECC Unbuffered Server Memory
Western digital 80GB SATA (3.0GB) 7200RPM.
Cheap PCI videocard.
T3 Connection
Linux OS

Cheap $860 Server

Is that going to be enough to run two 66 Tick 20 player sourceforts servers lag free?

I’m thinking yes.

Definiatly, good luck with that.

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Good comma usage! See? See people?! See? Grammar matters!


Oh and server looks nice.

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It's 'Fik-Shus'

This is, by all means, a stupid idea for you right now. The only reason I could see you wanting this is for the 'leet-ness' factor. Here's why:

-Why go with a rack mount? Use a tower or mini-tower and use more standard desktop components to save money and get more power without the cabinet rental increasing much.
-Why such weak RAM? Plus. read up on ECC and Buffering in RAM and take a wild guess which you want. That RAM is sloooww!
-Slow drive? WHY??!
-For the record, a "Tier 1" (Wake up and call it a T1 like the rest of the world!) is 1.544mbps. That's.. Not good. If you're referring simply to a T-1 carrier, why even mention that other than the 'leet-ness' perception of your post? no respectable DC will have anything but multi-carrier networks, and even then it's not a necessity. But again, why even bring it up?

Why would you purchase it yourself instead of renting from somewhere else? In the amount of time it will take for the cost of the two to even out, the combination of incredibly fast pipelines, tech support, free hardware replacements, and the ability to simply choose to rent new hardware as an upgrade when better hardware is out without having to repurchase, you'll be way ahead of the game.

As far as making it rack-mounted..
Again, why? If you got a FiOS line to your house you could get better bandwidth than a T1 for cheaper and not even have to pay a rental fee. Unless you're like me, you probably don't have a rack in your house to mount it on, so again, why not just use a standard tower-style case?

To get to the point:
It's not worth $700 to do something seemingly leet.
Colocation plans with datacenters aren't worth it unless you buy in bulk.
"Is that going to be enough to run two 66 Tick 20 player sourceforts servers lag free?" - Not necessarily.

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Good comma usage, yes. But there shouldn't be a capital letter immediately after the comma. :p

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Just for the record, there is a comma splice in there. I only see one comma, and that comma is used incorrectly.

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Also to add to Tony's point when selling game servers, most companies purchase server thats run around 20-30 game servers at once on them to make the price even out for them, buying what you've suggested will be a huge waste of money for you with little gain.

Tony's already touched on the issue of rackspace so I'll leave that.

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Why spend so much money on your server and fast internet anyway, switch the company you use and splash out on a good game server...dont buy a shoddy one of your own.

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Yeah it's a nice idea, but not on a budget. It's much cheaper just to rent a server from a provider. If you wanna do it yourself and run it lag free, then you're gonna need to spend big bucks and get the fastest stuff you can.

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