Hi everyone. Thought that those of us that are hosting servers could share what hardware we use.

This is going to be my new server soon... I plan to my my S2 license soon too to make it worthwhile. This server will be shipped out to Chicago to be colocated in the next couple months.

Here is the current hardware:

• HP Proliant ML570 G2 (130lb. 7u Rack-mount Case)
  
• 4x2.0GHz Xeon MP Processors (4 individual hyperthreaded processors)
  
• 8x512MB PC1600 DDR ECC RAM (Total of 4GB)
  
• 2x15k RPM 36GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - RAID 1 (Main OS)
  
• 2x10k RPM 73GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - Not in use ATM
  
• HP Smart Array 6402 Ultra320 PCI-X SCSI RAID Controller
  
• CentOS Linux 5.0 - Operating System

Here are the planned upgrades:

• Addition of 2x10k RPM 73GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - Set up in RAID 0+1 along with the other 2 current 73GB drives
  
• *Possible* Addition of another Memory Board allowing for 8 more sticks of PC1600 DDR ECC RAM
  
• Dual Gigabit NIC

Anyway, can someone give me an idea of how many LFS servers this would support?

Thanks, and share your servers too!

Dennis

(I'll post pics in a second, I have to take a couple )

how much did that cost you? a few thousand??, lol 4 Xeons


Why not just buy s2 for another £24, and sponsor a few leagues, host some servers for them, and i think its internet connection that makes the servers stop lag, and, why not just buy 8 sticks of 2Gb RAM? that is 16Gb...thats ZOMG HAX0000RZ

Harjun£$%^&*())*&^&^%$

I'm taking a guess here as I've never dealt with servers before, but wouldn't they give better latancy timings then higher spec, higher size DDR2 chips?
~Bryan~

The UKCT server uses a 3800 Dual core afaik - LFS Dedi is VERY light on hardware compared to stuff like BF2, you'll be limited by connection (which is the most important part of a server anyway imo).

It's a 4400+ IIRC Jack...but the point stands on LFS being a very resource-light app on the server side...it needs a lot more bandwidth than anything

Quote from dieselfuelonly :

Hi everyone. Thought that those of us that are hosting servers could share what hardware we use.

This is going to be my new server soon... I plan to my my S2 license soon too to make it worthwhile. This server will be shipped out to Chicago to be colocated in the next couple months.

Here is the current hardware:

• HP Proliant ML570 G2 (130lb. 7u Rack-mount Case)
  
• 4x2.0GHz Xeon MP Processors (4 individual hyperthreaded processors)
  
• 8x512MB PC1600 DDR ECC RAM (Total of 4GB)
  
• 2x15k RPM 36GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - RAID 1 (Main OS)
  
• 2x10k RPM 73GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - Not in use ATM
  
• HP Smart Array 6402 Ultra320 PCI-X SCSI RAID Controller
  
• CentOS Linux 5.0 - Operating System

Here are the planned upgrades:

• Addition of 2x10k RPM 73GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - Set up in RAID 0+1 along with the other 2 current 73GB drives
  
• *Possible* Addition of another Memory Board allowing for 8 more sticks of PC1600 DDR ECC RAM
  
• Dual Gigabit NIC

Anyway, can someone give me an idea of how many LFS servers this would support?

Thanks, and share your servers too!

Dennis

(I'll post pics in a second, I have to take a couple )

You don't need that for a dedicated LFS server

I run it on a 533 Mhz VIA C3, with 2 GB compact flash (storage) and 256 MB ram (memmory). That's all and the connection is the bottleneck (1 mbit up)

a lot of people on this forum don't have thousands of £££ to spend on...servers, unless they're in UKCT or something.

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a lot of people on this forum don't have thousands of £££ to spend on...servers, unless they're in UKCT or something.

I highly doubt that the UKCT servers cost ££££'s, maybe in total after rent..etc but not the Server's themselves. Also, why do you assume the CTRA people have loads of money?

well Jakg said they have a server...im sorry

Quote from harjun :

well Jakg said they have a server...im sorry

They do, but server's don't cost ££££'s usually, unless its a very big/powerful one .

Quote from harjun :

a lot of people on this forum don't have thousands of £££ to spend on...servers, unless they're in UKCT or something.

You think our server is 1337 or sometyhing? It is paid for by about 10-15 people, and has a 939 CPU, which is an officially dead socket. Its keeping the server thats expensive.

I'm don't know how much the server costs (or if i should mention how it's funded), but i know Fusion Dan (DANDAMAN05) has a server of a lower spec in the same datacentre (might even be in the same rack) and pays something in the region of £90 a month for it.

whoa, our school has 3 servers

Our school has about 6, but tbh 6 servers isn't whats expensive, it's mounting them in a datacentre and keeping them there that costs.

(I wasn't bragging when i said 6 - they're nothing special, P4's and netburst Xeons - wire 'em into a switch and tada! they're a decent network server.)

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I'm don't know how much the server costs (or if i should mention how it's funded), but i know Fusion Dan (DANDAMAN05) has a server of a lower spec in the same datacentre (might even be in the same rack) and pays something in the region of £90 a month for it.

Indeed i do.

Intel P4 3.2ghz HT
2GB RAM
120GB HDD (upgrading soon)

My box is hosted by the same company as the UKCT box and would probs be next to each other on a rack.

I pay £70 per month for it. Which is funded by me turing up to college when im supposed to :P and also private donators.

There are far better servers out there of course... but this box im renting is just enough for what i want... for now.

but you can buy an Xeon server on ebuyer for £500, with 1gb RAM, and just spend a little more upgrading it

But as has been said earlier, keeping it in a datacentre will cost more over a year than buying it. You may as well save the money you're going to spend and have a dedicated box straight from the provider. Plus, as you already said, he has his own box...so why tell him he can get a new one if he just wants to upgrade the current one? (Besides, no ebuyer server has 4GB RAM and SCSI Ultra320 HDDs, nor do they have 4 CPUs)

EDIT: dieselfuelonly, if you plan to just run LFS servers on that machine then you don't need any upgrades at all, just chuck it in a datacentre. If you want to do anything stressful (like run VPS's etc) then maybe a little more HDD space would be useful, and a slight bit more RAM