L2J Server

Question about server machine . What do you think of this ?
How many player will max support without lag.

2 x Intel Quad Core Xeon 3.0 Ghz processors
16 or 32 GB Ram DDR 3 1333 ECC Triple channel - not decided yet
2 x 500 GB SATA 3 HDD - RAID - 0
OS : I think will be win 2008 RC2 server & Mysql 5.1 or 5.5
10MB guaranteed dedicated connection for external players / 100 MB for internal players

Server connection is a problem in my opinion, also i would check if it has a good carrier before i select that connection. System OS is not the one i would suggest, as a clean Linux install, without any X-derivated desktop uses less memory.
Mysql increase its performance if you install it on a disk away from system os/server install.

What i would do? Increase bandwith to 1GB/s, install server itsel onf a SSD disk and raid for mysql. SSD i've tried till now are a bad idea for mysql, as they fail just too much. Thats my opinion, other guys can have its own

(With 10 Mb i would not launch a server, so will not say you how many players)

Increase connection to 1GB/sec will be a problem because the price .... as server will be hosted on own machine not in some datacenter.

I dont know if anyone really can afford 1Gb/sec guaranteed connection imagine that 50 Mb/ sec guaranteed external connection is arround 2k euro / month

L.E . typo .. it;s 10 MB not Mb

A dedicated server on a datacenter is cheaper than you imagine. On Hetzner.de you can have a medium server from 50€ each month. If you plan to open a really serious server i would select this.
If you just plan to open a server for friends, you spec is really nice. You can also select to start with your own machine and check lately to migrate to a dedicated.

principedetinieblas wrote:A dedicated server on a datacenter is cheaper than you imagine. On Hetzner.de you can have a medium server from 50€ each month. If you plan to open a really serious server i would select this.
If you just plan to open a server for friends, you spec is really nice. You can also select to start with your own machine and check lately to migrate to a dedicated.

Still , i'm not convinced why i should go to some data center instead having own box.
There's nothing special they offer... maybe some extra bandwidth.

dark911_ro wrote: L.E . typo .. it;s 10 MB not Mb

May be you mean Mbps???
Check here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units

maybe it's 12.5MB/s = 100Mbps?

jurchiks wrote:maybe it's 12.5MB/s = 100Mbps?

In romania the internet providers do a very lame thing to get your money ... They "split" the bandwidth in 2 with diff prices.

EX :
-Inside country ( for most of them that means only inside you town ... ) they offer 100MB / sec
-Outside country ( that means all connections from outside romania ) they offer packets from 1MB / sec till 50 - 60MB/sec

Prices are something like : 1 MB / sec = 50 euro/month and 50 - 60MB / sec = over 3k euro / month and that's only for download speed. Upload is another story ....

Anyway .. about l2j , how much bandwidth you need for ... idk , let's say 1k players ? Upload and download.

*lurk in* ^^
I have the EQ4-Server from Hetzner.de and I'm satisfied ^^
Fast and Lagfree
It's my N00bish opinion XD
(And good Service )