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Hello guys. I'm thinking of renting a Virtual Private Server (VPS) and the VPS have a max cap of bandwidth transfer each month. I already have a server but its a rented one and it really needs more RAM. The VPS have a maxcap of 4 TB (4000 GB) of transfer each month. I wonder how many max players I would be able to have on it. Lets say the server is full 24/7 for safety calculation. I think about hosting a 32-64 slot server. Would be awesome with 64 though... Anyways, the VPS got 4 GB of RAM with 6 GB of burst. It also have 100 MBit / sec download/upload speed but upload speed is what I focus on. If I would be able to host for 64 slot, would I have to set the bandwidth rate to anything lower? Thanks in Advance. Regards, Svenskunganka.

Well its Easy, On Gmod Wiki says: Each Player use 30kbps of Upload. So make the Calculation: Your Server KBPS UPLOAD / 30kbps + 100kbps (Error Margin = Lags + A lot of Voice ON + Etc) And not just Bandwidth and RAM you need A lot of Processor to Process 64 Players. i Think 2GB RAM + Xeon 3 GHZ and your Bandwidth you can run 32 Players on a big map like (gm_construct_flatgrass_v5) because you cannot put 32 players on gm_construct pretty good!

I think it not enough. 4GB of ram is not enough for 64 slot server. You have to include : spawning item , voice using , ... so much more. But anyway good luck.

[QUOTE='[Sc]ToreMike;33457498']I think it not enough. 4GB of ram is not enough for 64 slot server. You have to include : spawning item , voice using , ... so much more. But anyway good luck.[/QUOTE] 64 players its so massive, And will be such a mess. Most servers have on max 24 Players.

Max Player 24 Please , if 64 it gonna crash

So, how I calculated the monthly usage of this: 130 kbps (The usage per second of a player) 129600000 seconds is 30 days. 129600000 x 130 = 168,48 x 10^8 (16848000000 is kbps a player uses on 30 days playing 24/7) 16848000000 / 1000000 = 16848 (Now it is in gbit) 16848 = 2106 (Transformation from gbit to gByte) 2106 / 1000 = 2,106 TB Result: 2,1 TB of monthly usage for each player who uses 130 kbps who plays 24/7 throughout a whole month. Can this really be true? [editline]27th November 2011[/editline] ToreMike, nexusbr, I think the same. But it would be awesome with 64 slot though ;D I think I'm gonna have it 32 instead.

[QUOTE=Svenskunganka;33457602]So, how I calculated the monthly usage of this: 130 kbps (The usage per second of a player) 129600000 seconds is 30 days. 129600000 x 130 = 168,48 x 10^8 (16848000000 is kbps a player uses on 30 days playing 24/7) 16848000000 / 1000000 = 16848 (Now it is in gbit) 16848 = 2106 (Transformation from gbit to gByte) 2106 / 1000 = 2,106 TB Result: 2,1 TB of monthly usage for each player who uses 130 kbps who plays 24/7 throughout a whole month. Can this really be true? [editline]27th November 2011[/editline] ToreMike, nexusbr, I think the same. But it would be awesome with 64 slot though ;D I think I'm gonna have it 32 instead.[/QUOTE] You misunderstood the 100kbps is just once not per player. As i said 64 Players will be such a mess! [editline]27th November 2011[/editline] [QUOTE='[Sc]ToreMike;33457595']Max Player 24 Please , if 64 it gonna crash[/QUOTE] For sure will crash

nexusbr - you have no idea what you're talking about. Having a Xeon processor (I presume you mean an E3) has [b]no use whatsoever[/b] for hosting GMod servers. Srcds only uses 1 thread for its main processing, and a second thread for network processing. This leaves you with 6 wasted logical cores. 4GB of RAM is more than enough for 64 players. 64 players in srcds will only use around 700MB-1GB. tl;dr: Yes, it will be enough. However, depending on the VPS provider; you may not get enough CPU usage to run the server. Generally when you hit 30+ players, the core you're using locks and everything becomes laggy.

Yeah you're all forgetting about the CPU load here...

The provider says 4 Ghz Dedicated Usage of CPU. For how many players will that cover? And btw, I would rather have a quality server with less players than a laggy server with more players.

[QUOTE=Svenskunganka;33463112]The provider says 4 Ghz Dedicated Usage of CPU. For how many players will that cover? And btw, I would rather have a quality server with less players than a laggy server with more players.[/QUOTE] you only get a fair share of the CPU though lol what provider

VolumeDrive

With VolumeDrive you won't get 4ghz dedicated. They overpack their boxes like nothing else.

yeah I think I heard that volumedrive has horrible IO speed too

[QUOTE=Banana Lord.;33464515]yeah I think I heard that volumedrive has horrible IO speed too[/QUOTE] Yup, comes in tie with overpacking boxes. Which is why at Fanatical we don't overpack boxes [/shameless advertising]

Thanks for the information. I tried to send them a mail where I asked how I would access the box but they haven't answered and it was 3 days ago I sent it. Their boxes is really cheap though. Man Without Hat, I've looked over your VPS's and I like them but the only problem with them is that it has a really low amount of disk space. But I would rather like quality boxes than overpacked and not living up to what they've said. I'm probably gonna choose Fanatical. I've forgot how much disk space SRCDS takes up.

[QUOTE=Svenskunganka;33473499]Thanks for the information. I tried to send them a mail where I asked how I would access the box but they haven't answered and it was 3 days ago I sent it. Their boxes is really cheap though. Man Without Hat, I've looked over your VPS's and I like them but the only problem with them is that it has a really low amount of disk space. But I would rather like quality boxes than overpacked and not living up to what they've said. I'm probably gonna choose Fanatical. I've forgot how much disk space SRCDS takes up.[/QUOTE] Some companies can't afford to have their sales department open on weekends