128 player server with mods

[Geek]

What would be needed for specs on a server to run 128 players with mods on arma reforger and would 2 gig fiber be enough to support that

[Jimmy In A Dinger]

with mods is too vague but your looking at a beefy dedicated server in the ball park of 60-100 euro/month, this comes with the drawback of having to manage your own infrastructure. I use Pterodactyl like all the game server resellers.

[Jrm]

I know this is an older post but requirements have went up since the last update imo with the destruction of buildings.

It really depends on the mods and how many you are running. Also, bots / ai eat up a lot of resources. If you lower bots or disable them you can get by with lesser hardware.

You need a Fast Newer cpu with high single core / single thread performance. More cores does not correlate to better but I would recommend a good 8 core CPU.

64gb ram is more than enough, you could get by with 32gb for 1 server instance of that size.

SSD at minimum or get a NVME

I'd shoot for something like a 5700g at minimum it has 8 cores 16 threads and the single threaded performance is decent. Anything near it would be fine too like 5800x, etc.

If you want the next step up something like a amd ryzen 7 7700 or 7700x.

If you are building it yourself that would be plenty, or if you are looking for a provider they can come in desktop cpu variants or Server / Data center variants.

For intel I would shoot for something like a i7 12700 or around it, even a xeon variant that is similar with 8 cores, 16 threads.

I would advise not going below a 6 core like an amd 5600x or intel equivalent.

I just upgraded from and older xeon to an amd Epyc 4344P with 96gb ram, 4tb nvme, anti ddos by path net.

The 4344P is basically the datacenter / server version of an amd 7700. It has pretty high single thread performance. If you know how to optimize and config servers properly I could run 2 128 servers on that box with tons of mods like wcs servers. I have overkill for ram but I would be splitting up the servers by giving them 4 cores each.

[Jrm]

I am making another post for future people that might come across it with cheaper budgets and say up to half the slots mentioned.

I have tried an older E3-1270v6 (8 year old) quad core with 8 threads, 32gb ram, 250gb ssd, 1gbps at a data center. This is the oldest setup I would ever recommend for 1 Arma Reforger server for approx 50-64 Players max.

I have tested WCS type servers, with and without bots, tons of mods.

I have also tested the coop PVE type servers that spawns a ton of bots over and over in waves.

As long as you only have 1 ONLY 1 server instance running and nothing else it actually ran pretty good up to 50-64 players max. I would stay at 50 max IMO.

Once you get 70 and more you will get the yellow server fps popping up pretty much non stop. The cpu is just not able to handle over 64 players, and on top of that if you have bots and a lot of mods.

The good thing, these e3-1270 v6 dedicated server boxes can be found from various hosts for in the $30's-$45 range with anti ddos included. You may need to install your own OS to get around any additional fees. You also have to setup everything manually.

Hope I have helped someone.

Psychz networks has these boxes cheap if you email them.