Looking to host a server

[chrsschb]

Originally Posted by AndMetal

plus you're combining a processor with a 667 MHz FSB with 800 MHz RAM.

Just wanted to point this out and say, "It doesn't matter."

Both CPU and RAM can run at whatever frequencies are supported by the motherboard and the chip itself. Motherboards have dividers/multipliers to ensure that can be set to ensure the devices can communicate correctly.

[Secrets]

Why waste this good hardware on an EQEmulator server? With this capacity, we could host FIFTEEN loginservers and forums on the same box!

http://www.serverpronto.com/

eqemulator has the starter, so using math...

yeah, you guys see where i'm going with this

[AndMetal]

Originally Posted by chrsschb

Just wanted to point this out and say, "It doesn't matter."

Both CPU and RAM can run at whatever frequencies are supported by the motherboard and the chip itself. Motherboards have dividers/multipliers to ensure that can be set to ensure the devices can communicate correctly.

Don't want to derail too much, but what would happen in that circumstance is the RAM would be clocked down to 667 MHz, because that's what the FSB would have to run at for the processor. All it would really do is reduce the speed of the RAM a bit. At least it's not the other way around, because if it was, the processor wouldn't be running at 2.66 GHz. I mainly pointed it out because the speed of the RAM isn't really worth mentioning as 800 MHz because it's not going to be running that fast.

If I get a chance to pull the DB from my server (which is down until I can get the Ethernet cable run), I might be interested in this, since it will at least give others a chance to have a Non-Legit server again. However, I hope you have multiple IPs, because the Emu server doesn't really work with multiple servers on the same box (at least last I knew).

[trevius]

That is a weird setup for a channelized T3. Normally you would have the same upload and download speeds. But, I guess they can set the CIR to be different for each direction.

It definitely isn't possible to run more than 1 server inside a single LAN, because you need to forward the ports to the correct PC for it to work, and you can't forward to more than 1 PC. But, you may be able to get around that by setting up each server on their own separate VMWare instance. Then, you would have to change it to use NAT and not the bridged DHCP that pulls an IP from the router. If the ports were forwarded to the actual server that is running the VMWare sessions, maybe the NAT would allow the traffic on port 9000 to go to any of the VMWare instances from that point. I don't know for sure, but that is the only way I can think of to possibly do it.

[Vae]

And here I thought he meant jacuzzi when he said scuzi.

[Yeormom]

Originally Posted by trevius

Yeormom,

Are you being serious, or are you making fun of his spelling of SCSI? :P

I was just providing an example of one of many red flags, as AndMetal has begun to mention and quoted again for refernece below...

Originally Posted by AndMetal

As for Yeormom's comment, I assume you understand that if something sounds to good to be true, it usually is. Specifically, you have a motherboard that supports 7 sticks of ECC/Registered RAM ($350-$700), but doesn't have a SCSI controller already, plus you're combining a processor with a 667 MHz FSB with 800 MHz RAM. Add in that your Internet connection itself should be in the ballpark of $3000-$4000/month (up to ~$9000 if it's a full T3), and things start to sound just a little too good.

I tried and could not locate a motherboard which has more than 6 memory slots (little alone ecc), no onboard scsi controller, and support for dual processors, all while providing either SATA support or a non pci-x slot to support an addon sata card.

Originally Posted by Cvinion

Currently Set up to primary boot on a Virtual machine, but moving here shortly to Scuzi drives for improves performance

I have no idea this sentence even means after rereading it.

Originally Posted by Cvinion

After talking with a few members of the college, the city and the ISP they have upgraded all internet in this region and all that the current non college residents (all like 7 of us) have brand new internet that costs us only ~30ish dollars more a month than my old crappy 4mbs down /512ks up.

So they gave you a CSU/DSU and ran the line in your house for a mere potential of $30 profit a month? A cheap full duplex T1 costs $350 a month. As further reference, a quote one week ago to put one of my servers back in a data center is $55 PER Mbps of bandwidth each month PLUS power, rackspace, and switch ports. While residential services are much cheaper, business class services are not.

Originally Posted by AndMetal

...but if you put yourself on the other side of this & play the devil's advocate, then at least you might be able to empathize with Yeormom's comment and accept it as a valid concern rather than a flame

The one thing run about this community is you will find some highly talented members who lurk around every once in awhile with vast amounts I often consider useless once I leave the office, but often find handy as seen otherwise. Some of the server code is highly customized and thousands of hours have been put into the work so some of us are more cynical than others. Don't take it personally though! <3

[Loccochris]

Well one thing I always wanted to see was another legit server. Something like PEQ perhaps slightly faster leveling like 2x or 2.5x. Also no server I can tell takes on a Firona Vae kind of server where pretty much everything but epics are tradable which should just be a simple database query and change. Then manually go through epics and make them no drop items/quest items.

Think it would add a whole new dimension to game if everything could be traded especially with the bazaar now functioning. I think if you did this throwing in some buffbots in PoK, and perhaps some teleport or not and it should draw a crowd.