I defer to those who have more experience than I do in hosting, especially hosting specifically for Minecraft. I am going to get a dedicated server soon, but I have a few questions about system requirements which will help me choose who to get it from.
About how many players can you fit per GB of ram, without affecting gameplay at all? What about without affecting game play 'too much'?
How important is the CPU in the server?
What kind of server would it take to host 100 slots? 200 slots?
Thank you for your time.
Edit: I will be getting server hosting through a provider, not doing it myself.
The thing that always seems to govern the number of players is the upspeed of the connection. Roughly 0.3Mb/s is needed per person. Remember this is the UPSPEED, not the downspeed.
I'm going to be renting a dedicated server... I want to make sure I do go with a company that has great connection speeds, I noticed a lot of the game server companies don't list info about the speed, and that worries me.
I defer to those who have more experience than I do in hosting, especially hosting specifically for Minecraft. I am going to get a dedicated server soon, but I have a few questions about system requirements which will help me choose who to get it from.
About how many players can you fit per GB of ram, without affecting gameplay at all? What about without affecting game play 'too much'?
How important is the CPU in the server?
What kind of server would it take to host 100 slots? 200 slots?
Thank you for your time.
Edit: I will be getting server hosting through a provider, not doing it myself.
Okay, since your getting a provider, the post above me about speed is not important, as they should have a good speed.
For the ram question, you can fit about 12-15 people on 1 gig of ram, depending on how big the world size is. However, as you get more people on the server, you need more ram per player, as there is more stress on the server. But, its nothing to worry about unless you plan on having more than 50 people on. For reference, we have about 25 people on almost all the time, and around 45 at peak times, and we have 8 gigs of ram, and it runs absoluty fine, actually great.
The CPU is not super important, but you do want to have a good one nonetheless. Something I have heard however, is that minecraft servers don't run as good on more cores, such as an i7, and tend to run better on dual cores. I'm not sure of the validity of this, but its some food for thought.
100 slots? A server whose owner I know ran about 76-85 people at all times, and had about 16 gigs of ram, but I don't know the other specs.
Okay, since your getting a provider, the post above me about speed is not important, as they should have a good speed.
For the ram question, you can fit about 12-15 people on 1 gig of ram, depending on how big the world size is. However, as you get more people on the server, you need more ram per player, as there is more stress on the server. But, its nothing to worry about unless you plan on having more than 50 people on. For reference, we have about 25 people on almost all the time, and around 45 at peak times, and we have 8 gigs of ram, and it runs absoluty fine, actually great.
The CPU is not super important, but you do want to have a good one nonetheless. Something I have heard however, is that minecraft servers don't run as good on more cores, such as an i7, and tend to run better on dual cores. I'm not sure of the validity of this, but its some food for thought.
100 slots? A server whose owner I know ran about 76-85 people at all times, and had about 16 gigs of ram, but I don't know the other specs.
Thanks for the info. If anyone else knows about the core issue(has experience with it), I woul d love to hear about it. Do you think it is best to go with a game server company, or a dedicated server through a company like godaddy/hostgator/etc?
Minecraft is an extremely RAM intensive game, however CPU is equally as important. I would recommend looking at different Minecraft providers in the Minecraft Server Hosting board.
Thanks for the info. If anyone else knows about the core issue(has experience with it), I woul d love to hear about it. Do you think it is best to go with a game server company, or a dedicated server through a company like godaddy/hostgator/etc?
If this is your first time, you should go with a Minecraft host, because with just dedicated boxe's, they do not provide you with a minecraft server, you have to install Java, install minecraft, install bukkit, etc.
We have and still host servers with over 100-200 slot limits. I will tell you straight up the game does not scale well. You will need an amazing processor and cores are helpful with garbage collection. You will need to setup server variables to run with.
RAM is also very important. For that amount you're going to want quite a bit 16-32GB. Also you'd need fast drives SSD or RAID array would be helpful especially if you have lots of plugins and/or a cartographer.
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About how many players can you fit per GB of ram, without affecting gameplay at all? What about without affecting game play 'too much'?
How important is the CPU in the server?
What kind of server would it take to host 100 slots? 200 slots?
Thank you for your time.
Edit: I will be getting server hosting through a provider, not doing it myself.
I'm going to be renting a dedicated server... I want to make sure I do go with a company that has great connection speeds, I noticed a lot of the game server companies don't list info about the speed, and that worries me.
Okay, since your getting a provider, the post above me about speed is not important, as they should have a good speed.
For the ram question, you can fit about 12-15 people on 1 gig of ram, depending on how big the world size is. However, as you get more people on the server, you need more ram per player, as there is more stress on the server. But, its nothing to worry about unless you plan on having more than 50 people on. For reference, we have about 25 people on almost all the time, and around 45 at peak times, and we have 8 gigs of ram, and it runs absoluty fine, actually great.
The CPU is not super important, but you do want to have a good one nonetheless. Something I have heard however, is that minecraft servers don't run as good on more cores, such as an i7, and tend to run better on dual cores. I'm not sure of the validity of this, but its some food for thought.
100 slots? A server whose owner I know ran about 76-85 people at all times, and had about 16 gigs of ram, but I don't know the other specs.
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Thanks for the info. If anyone else knows about the core issue(has experience with it), I woul d love to hear about it. Do you think it is best to go with a game server company, or a dedicated server through a company like godaddy/hostgator/etc?
If this is your first time, you should go with a Minecraft host, because with just dedicated boxe's, they do not provide you with a minecraft server, you have to install Java, install minecraft, install bukkit, etc.
I don't mind installation. I can do it, and I have an experienced admin who can help me if I get stuck. I'm concerned with quality and scaleability.
I don't know what the real, practical limit is to max players on a server, but I want a server that can hold as many as possible.
RAM is also very important. For that amount you're going to want quite a bit 16-32GB. Also you'd need fast drives SSD or RAID array would be helpful especially if you have lots of plugins and/or a cartographer.
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