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dedicated boxes and VPS are extremely inexpensive. I use 1and1 for all my needs, I have hosting, a vps and a dedicated from them.

Their vps(Virtue private servers) all come with amd dual core opteron 1.75ghz, ram varies from 128MB dedicated with 256 bursts to 512MB dedicated 1024MB bursts, space and monthly transfer are extremely good for the price and 1and1 all hosting/servers are on a true 100MBiT pipe. which you don tpay extra for, you dont pay extra for 64bit support or plesk either. You also recieve a free domain for the vps. Currently they have a special (ending in 7 days) if you sign up for a vps 3 you pay 1$ setup and 3 months free.


The dedicated servers are great, from 99 to 399 a month from single core to quad core, no less then 1gig(99$one) and up to 8gigs(399$one) of ram.


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total experience with this host: since 2005 with Bussiness hosting, Developer hosting, VPS3, and a root server 1.

great thing about 1and1 they have lax terms you can do anything you wish on your box as long as it isnt something like terrorism.


and Im sorry with my knowledge of running servers, you cannot run a lag free server with a 2MBiT uplink you need atleast a 10MBiT, but it is preferred you have a 100MBiT

[trevius]

I don't know how much experience you have with running an EQEmu server, but you can certainly run a lag free server with 2MBits. The size of the upload only limits the number of players you can have on your server before connection issues start.

My server runs lag free even with 85 players on and that is only with 1MBit upload. My previous internet upload was listed as 512k, but I got more like 750k and I could handle about 60 characters before there started being connection issues. So, I would imagine that 2Mbits would handle 150 just fine and maybe more. At that point, server hardware is more important to keep stability. Ideally, a separate zone server should probably be used for every 75 players you have, depending on the power of the servers.

I never see any lag on my server since I started using my zone resetters to clear out player ghosts every few hours from popular zones. And I hear that Linux doesn't even have the ghosting problem at all. The only things I notice when my player numbers get really high are that zone crashes happen more often and sometimes player have trouble getting logged into the server.

Maybe if you are talking about EQLive server player numbers, then yes, of course you would want 100Mbits. But I see no reason why any EQEmu servers would even need 10Mbits currently. None are even close to the numbers to require that. Of course, overkill never hurts lol. I definitely wouldn't complain if I had 10MBits upload to match my 10Mbits download.

1.5 up is enough for 150+ people easy.

Its the processor + Ram thats needed at that point.