How many servers can we host and how many can we max the slots out too - Hardware & Software

Planning on Booting up a company but I'm somewhat in-experienced with the Intel Xeon CPU's so once I kinda get a answer to this I think I'll have a better idea. [I]Computer 1[/I] [B]SPECS[/B] CPU - Intel Xeon E3-1220v1 CUP Cores - 4 Cores / 4 Threads CPU Speed - 3.1Ghz / 3.4Ghz Turbo RAM - 32GB DDR3 Storage - 240GB SSD Bandwidth - 1Gbit - 33TB/Month $42.00/mo [I]Computer 2[/I] [B]SPECS[/B] CPU - Dual Intel Xeon 5520 CPU Cores - 2 Processors - 8 Cores / 16 Threads CPU Speed - 2.26Ghz RAM - 24GB DDR3 Storage - 240GB SSD Bandwidth - 1Gbit - 33TB/Month $49.00/mo [I]Over all which one do you think is a good small start then begin by going up from there? Also this goes for Garry's Mod, Counterstrike Global Offsnesive, Those kinda games.[/I]

Definitely run gmod on PC 1. Clock speed is crucial since srcds runs on one physical core. Find the best single core performance CPU with ht disabled.

[QUOTE=Tasm;51732986]Definitely run gmod on PC 1. Clock speed is crucial since srcds runs on one physical core. Find the best single core performance CPU with ht disabled.[/QUOTE] Thanks!

Sorry, but if you're writing forum posts about which low-cost rented server to pick as the first and only box for your hosting business, you're not really in a position to start a hosting business. [QUOTE=Tasm;51732986]Find the best single core performance CPU with [B]ht disabled.[/B][/QUOTE] That may have been good advice once but on modern(ish) CPUs hyperthreading does not negatively impact singlethreaded performance. (In fact srcds isn't fully single-threaded anymore either, though singlethreaded performance is likely still the most important metric.)

As DrTaxi said you're not in position to run hosting business. What if somebody pays for server and it goes down out of sudden? 1) Will you be able to determine problem? - There is a bit more than just googling error codes and asking people on internet isn't really best practice. 2) How long will it take? - This will depend on either how fast you can respond and how much you know about servers, or you will rely on forums responses which sometimes can take a couple of days. 3) How will you compensate customer for downtime? - If I joined a game server that goes down randomly few times a day, I would find new server, I wouldn't bother playing on it.

Heh, i think i know who you're buying that from... The E3 all the way. The 5520 is a decent processor but its not for your purpose. If you can try, see if you can get the E3v2 [editline]27th January 2017[/editline] To throw it in as a sidenote, you might get lucky and get a E3 1230 or a 1240. Their CPU pools are kinda a mess.

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;51734544]Sorry, but if you're writing forum posts about which low-cost rented server to pick as the first and only box for your hosting business, you're not really in a position to start a hosting business. That may have been good advice once but on modern(ish) CPUs hyperthreading does not negatively impact singlethreaded performance. (In fact srcds isn't fully single-threaded anymore either, though singlethreaded performance is likely still the most important metric.)[/QUOTE] Oh wow I haven't been keeping up with their changes much, but that's good to know, at least it's slightly better these days.

Don't start a company on a single SSD. When it fails you'll lose everyone's data. Don't be that guy.

[QUOTE=Flapadar;51745547]Don't start a company on a single SSD. When it fails you'll lose everyone's data. Don't be that guy.[/QUOTE] People see a $40 server and take it as a deal. But you should take those savings and have a mirrored fail over preferrably on a different datacenter just in case.