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Post by StevenNL2000 on Jun 22, 2018 20:10:55 GMT
I don't normally make these types of posts, but this caught my eye as something very special: www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/1801sys52.xmlFor context, 128GB RAM would normally cost you about $150 per month, and then you don't have the rest of the server yet. So you Start is owned by OVH, the largest hosting provider in Europe, so it's not a scam either. |
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Post by _Windows on Jun 23, 2018 0:08:18 GMT
Just an FYI, the CPU on that would not run a Minecraft server well at all. You need decent single-thread performance for it. The SYS machines TF is on right now has a close to 4 GHz Intel Xeon.
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Post by Cowgomooo12 on Jun 23, 2018 2:00:56 GMT
Just an FYI, the CPU on that would not run a Minecraft server well at all. You need decent single-thread performance for it. The SYS machines TF is on right now has a close to 4 GHz Intel Xeon. It is more than able to run a Minecraft server. However, not particularly well. It's a US$15-30 dollar CPU on eBay/Amazon. If that isn't concerning enough, the CPU is from early 2010. It would be an excellent seedbox (esp w/ 4TB + 128GB RAM), not so great for hosting a game server. |
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Post by StevenNL2000 on Jun 23, 2018 2:19:19 GMT
Just an FYI, the CPU on that would not run a Minecraft server well at all. You need decent single-thread performance for it. The SYS machines TF is on right now has a close to 4 GHz Intel Xeon. It is more than able to run a Minecraft server. However, not particularly well. It's a US$15-30 dollar CPU on eBay/Amazon. If that isn't concerning enough, the CPU is from early 2010. It would be an excellent seedbox (esp w/ 4TB + 128GB RAM), not so great for hosting a game server. I doubt you'll put the full 128GB to good use with a seedbox. You could of course make a RAM disk, but then the 250 Mbps bandwidth limit is hit pretty quickly. |
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Post by Cowgomooo12 on Jun 23, 2018 2:35:52 GMT
It is more than able to run a Minecraft server. However, not particularly well. It's a US$15-30 dollar CPU on eBay/Amazon. If that isn't concerning enough, the CPU is from early 2010. It would be an excellent seedbox (esp w/ 4TB + 128GB RAM), not so great for hosting a game server. I doubt you'll put the full 128GB to good use with a seedbox. You could of course make a RAM disk, but then the 250 Mbps bandwidth limit is hit pretty quickly. When you're actively seeding (uploading) an iso (content), it's placed in RAM. Though, torrents are pretty calm with RAM as only the active part (forget the technical name but 'chunks') being uploaded is placed in RAM. You've probably never hit 128GB usage. Bandwidth allocation is marked as 'unlimited', but I have my doubts. RAM disks seem interesting. Imagine allocating all the files you're uploading into your RAM. That would be blazing fast. sudo mkdir -p /media/ramdisk
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=51200 tmpfs /media/ramdiskThough, you'd have to keep a copy of the contents on your HDD due to, well, RAM. |
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Post by thecjgcjg on Jun 23, 2018 2:50:16 GMT
I used to host CJFreedom on SYS, and the network performed amazingly, I believe that was also limited, but we frequently went over (We ran a lot more than just the MC server on there) and there were no slowdowns, and no charges.
That said, nowadays, I would be surprised if I myself used anything other than AWS for hosting, i'll pay a hell of a lot more to not have to manage instances, so much effort.
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Post by Wild1145 on Jun 23, 2018 10:03:36 GMT
Just an FYI, the CPU on that would not run a Minecraft server well at all. You need decent single-thread performance for it. The SYS machines TF is on right now has a close to 4 GHz Intel Xeon. Does depend on the type of server. TF as a server runs like a sack of shit and its why when we re-launched CJFreedom we didn't just have one big server... |
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Post by Wild1145 on Jun 23, 2018 10:04:35 GMT
I doubt you'll put the full 128GB to good use with a seedbox. You could of course make a RAM disk, but then the 250 Mbps bandwidth limit is hit pretty quickly. When you're actively seeding (uploading) an iso (content), it's placed in RAM. Though, torrents are pretty calm with RAM as only the active part (forget the technical name but 'chunks') being uploaded is placed in RAM. You've probably never hit 128GB usage. Bandwidth allocation is marked as 'unlimited', but I have my doubts. RAM disks seem interesting. Imagine allocating all the files you're uploading into your RAM. That would be blazing fast. sudo mkdir -p /media/ramdisk
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=51200 tmpfs /media/ramdiskThough, you'd have to keep a copy of the contents on your HDD due to, well, RAM. If there is a limit on the bandwidth its rather high. My servers regularly transfer hundreds of TB every month with no slow downs... |
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Post by _Windows on Jun 23, 2018 12:52:23 GMT
Just an FYI, the CPU on that would not run a Minecraft server well at all. You need decent single-thread performance for it. The SYS machines TF is on right now has a close to 4 GHz Intel Xeon. Does depend on the type of server. TF as a server runs like a sack of shit and its why when we re-launched CJFreedom we didn't just have one big server... Well I can tell you from experience that a single server instance runs better when given a CPU with greater single-thread performance. The moving of TF from the 2.6 GHz CPU of the VPS to the 3.5 to 3.9 GHz CPU of the dedicated machine made quite a difference of the server TPS. Much more than the RAM did. With multiple instances, I'd expect it to scale better for more cores and RAM as long as none of the servers get overloaded. Overall though, I'm rather impressed by OVH service in general. I've never had a problem with them, or their SYS. |
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Post by Wild1145 on Jun 23, 2018 13:23:03 GMT
Does depend on the type of server. TF as a server runs like a sack of shit and its why when we re-launched CJFreedom we didn't just have one big server... Well I can tell you from experience that a single server instance runs better when given a CPU with greater single-thread performance. The moving of TF from the 2.6 GHz CPU of the VPS to the 3.5 to 3.9 GHz CPU of the dedicated machine made quite a difference of the server TPS. Much more than the RAM did. With multiple instances, I'd expect it to scale better for more cores and RAM as long as none of the servers get overloaded. Overall though, I'm rather impressed by OVH service in general. I've never had a problem with them, or their SYS. The issue is not with the hardware, yes you could throw as much RAM as you like at it, but ultimately its got its technical limits, its why spreading the load across multiple Minecraft server instances is the way to go if you want to scale the server up and is why we architected CJFreedom in the way that we did, so you do not have any single point of failure, and if one server crashed under load (Like from a massive world edit for example) players don't really notice and just find themselves on a different server while the other one re-starts. |
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