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Renting SErver? [message #317969]

Tue, 19 February 2008 11:04

TiberiumboySFE
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Hello, yesterday I turned on my server, and someone came in and said there is a way to get lag free server if you rent it. I already tried AOHOST and they are down. They and TSUGamingn has been down for three days.

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Re: Renting SErver? [message #317984 is a reply to message #317969]

Tue, 19 February 2008 12:04

Goztow
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There's no suc thing like a lag free server. You can have less lag for some people, indeed, but lag free doesn't exist.

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Re: Renting SErver? [message #318013 is a reply to message #317969]

Tue, 19 February 2008 13:59

Zion
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There is absolutly nothing wrong with hosting your own FDS from your own machine, however there are several factors you need to take into consideration.

1). Your bandwidth limits.
You need to know exactly how many players you can host decently. 8Mbit down to 600Kbit up will host about 8-10 players on a server.

2). Your computers processing power.
The FDS and its regulators are very CPU intensive, if you're running Renegade alongside them, along with other applications like MSN, YIM, AIM, Steam, Anti-virus programs and the like, you will soon run out of processing power and RAM, which will lower the FDS's FPS (SFPS) and therefore take a long time doing things, which will lag the other players.

Those are two very important factors.

I used to host an 8 player server a while back on an 8Mb connection with a dual core processor and it ran pretty well. I then bought another machine and ran it from there, dedicated, always up and running, instead of being up when i'm awake.

But like Goztow said, there's no such thing as a latency free server. Everyone will have a ping of some sort, and it depends on their connection and the servers connection speeds, and usage. If they're downloading a large file for instance, they will lag, but no-one else will. In the case that the server downloads a large file, everyone will lag, besides localhost.

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Re: Renting SErver? [message #318019 is a reply to message #317969]

Tue, 19 February 2008 14:18

Nightma12
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TiberiumboySFE wrote on Tue, 19 February 2008 13:04

Hey,

Add me on msn: lee.dalchow@aohost.co.uk

We sent out an email regarding this downtime a good 2 weeks ago now, we are currently doing huge mainence on our backend servers. And that is why the servers are offline, all customers are going to be credited as agreed beforehand if the downtime exceeded 24 hours (which it has done).

We are hopeing to get everything back online within the next few hours, or the early hours of tommorrow morning.

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