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Old 01-16-2023, 01:42 AM
thefusz
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Im curious as to what is kind of the go to recommendation to host 250ish players?
How much ram / cpu is really needed?
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Old 01-16-2023, 10:04 PM
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Im curious as to what is kind of the go to recommendation to host 250ish players?
How much ram / cpu is really needed?
With the optimizations done over the years I would say that you would probably be able to get by with something fairly modest.

You will want a good connection. Bandwidth is going to be important just due to the sheer amount of connections. Just to throw out some numbers something with 8GB of RAM and 4 cores is probably more than enough.
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Old 01-17-2023, 01:05 AM
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Hardest part about answering this question is not knowing anything about the server and configuration.

250 players does indeed have bandwidth concerns, but on normal EQ instances they tend to split between zones, and that causes a RAM headache.

So, let's say you do a trilogy server.
You aren't going to do instances.
You want to keep all zones persistent, meaning you don't have zones shut down.

On average, each zone is going to take up roughly 50mb to be booted up.

There is about 75 zones in classic, if all boot up, 75x50 = 3750 MB
There is about 30 zones in RoK, 30x50 = 1500 MB
There is about 25 zones in SoV, 25x50 = 1250 MB
Combined: 6500 MB, or 6.5 GB

World takes about 200 MB

Your database will vary on memory usage, but I'm assuming you'll be running it as well on the same hardware. I believe for a PEQ instance it is roughly 3 GB needed for RAM.

so that's about 9.6 GB of ram needed. You usually need about a gig to 4 gigs of RAM for your OS/system, so we are up to 13 gigs of RAM.

I would argue 8GB is a bit too low for a trilogy server with above settings.

If you plan to go beyond just trilogy, your RAM usage will inevitably go higher, unless you optimize by shutting down zones. Also DZ instances eat up RAM per usage.

CPU usage varies, depending on how demanding players are to your SQL server and how nuts your zones are being hammered.. but I'd say at least 8 cores is needed for a trilogy server. Clock Rate needs to be a bit higher end.


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Old 01-17-2023, 08:09 PM
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Thanks for responses, been looking around at hosts, pretty expensive to match those requirements.
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