We run on a variety of VPS including one where the underlying host is an
E5-2620.
Compared to our other hosts that run 3.4Ghz CPUs we do see higher sv FPS
variance but it's not really gameplay affecting (players don't complain).
(I believe the 3.4Ghz cores are E3-12xx v3 but I can't be certain due to
the virtualisation.)
I'd guesstimate that each active 24p server chews up about 70% of one of
those E5-2620 cores but peaking as high as 100%, whereas the same server
would average around 30% on a 3.4Ghz core.
We're on Linux BTW.
Is there value in running one giant box, rather than getting a second
machine?
One of the reasons I chose to use VPS is for the redundancy -- we use 3
VPS across 3 different hosts. It's a given that every host will have
issues at various times (hello DDoS) so spreading across networks helps
to keep most of our servers online when one is having problems. We've
never been directly DDoSed but I regularly see network blips of 1-5
minutes on every gaming network. Bad neighbours.
On 23/09/2014 12:47 PM, Ryan Stecker wrote:
Hey all, just sending this message into the wide HLDS abyss to see if
anyone has any experiences hosting srcds (Mostly TF2, but it can really be
any game/mod that runs on that engine version) on single/dual E5-2650 v2s
or other similarly low clocked (around the 2.5GHz range) processors and
what kind of capacity they're getting (how many instances, slots, etc).
Currently we've been hosting on a E3-1270 v2, and the high single core
clock speeds have been more than enough to host 11 tf2 instances in the 28
player slot range, but we're now planning on moving hosts and looking to
expand to a box with dual 2650 v2s. My concern is that while the 2650 may
have more cores, the lower clock speeds could translate into a struggle to
meet the 15ms frame time that 66 tick servers require.
Anyone happen to be running on 2650s or similar and can share their
thoughts?
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