Dedicated Server ( Factions ) | What would be sufficient?

[Grace.]

I've been working on a factions server, which
is releasing soon. However, one thing I'm less experienced with
is dedicated servers & what exactly I'd need in terms of CPU power.

I need something reasonably priced that wouldn't break the bank.
I'm looking at getting a dedi from a reputable host, rather than some reseller
here on mcm.


After looking over alot of options - I don't particularly want to get something from
SYS or OVH, and was considering ReliableSite.

What kind of playerbase could something like this handle?
https://www.reliablesite.net/dedicated-servers/quad-core-server/intel-xeon-e3-1240v6-16GB-HDD
( at base configuration )

It would need to host a bungee proxy, hub, and factions.


While it would likely be overkill for my server, I've owned multiple factions servers over the years and find it very hard to predict playerbase and have given up on trying.
It's fullwell possible I'll have 40 people on sotw and that would be a huge overkill. On the other hand, last server I owned over a year back I expected maybe 50 on SOTW and got over 100.

I honestly don't even know anymore, and want to ensure there'll be a lag free experience regardless.

 

[Avey]

I would recommend atleast 32 gigs of ram. Factions takes a decent amount of ram when you have plenty of players and when people are cannoning.

 

[Grace.]

I would recommend atleast 32 gigs of ram. Factions takes a decent amount of ram when you have plenty of players and when people are cannoning.

CPU power seems like much more of a concern to me.
More than 10-12gb being dedicated to one server seems like overkill to me unless you're some huge server.

 

[Avey]

CPU power is much more a concern than ram from my experience.
More than 10-12gb being dedicated to one server seems like overkill to me unless you're some huge server.

Thats right, but it just depends on how many players you are looking for. A bigger server needs for sure more ram. The CPU is fine. I think it does the job. Reliablesite is also a pretty good hosting provider. I had never issues with them and their support is pretty good if you need that.

 

[Grace.]

Thats right, but it just depends on how many players you are looking for. A bigger server needs for sure more ram. The CPU is fine. I think it does the job. Reliablesite is also a pretty good hosting provider. I had never issues with them and their support is pretty good if you need that.

Yeah. Quite a while ago ( 1-2yr ) I had a dedi from an OVH reseller and it was hot garbage.
Trying to avoid going down that route again.

Would 3gb of ram dedicated to hub be sufficient if 100-150 people were to run around in it waiting for SOTW?

 

[Avey]

Yeah. Quite a while ago ( 1-2yr ) I had a dedi from an OVH reseller and it was hot garbage.
Trying to avoid going down that route again.

Would 3gb of ram dedicated to hub be sufficient if 100-150 people were to run around in it waiting for SOTW?

I do think so yes. You could always take a little bit from the faction server and give that to the Hub if needed. The server doesn't go to 12gigs right away

 

[Rahul.]

Yeah. Quite a while ago ( 1-2yr ) I had a dedi from an OVH reseller and it was hot garbage.
Trying to avoid going down that route again.

Would 3gb of ram dedicated to hub be sufficient if 100-150 people were to run around in it waiting for SOTW?

Proxy - 0.5/1GB
Hub - 2/3GB
Factions - 8-12GB (I ran 100+ players on 8GB it was fine, though you'll need restarts every 6-12 hours.)

 

[Raikasta]

Minecraft servers like CPU Clock Speed.

 

[NathanG1234]

Anything which has 4ghz or higher clock speed with around 4 cores and 8 threads would run you well. I would try and keep and keep to around those lines, but something like a Ryzen 5 or a Ryzen 7 would also suffice. Obviously ram is important, but try and find like an i7-4790k, i7-6700k, i7-7700k or a similar CPU.

Sadly, servers in the US are a lot more expensive than EU which will make it harder to find a good deal.

Honestly, your best bet would be a Game-2 from SoYouStart.