Server Suggestion

[LeviN]

Sup. Looking for advice on this. I currently have a server box to test and was looking at recommendations on how many slots I could run, server(s) and also how much I can stress it. Looking at a TTT server

Processor: Intel E3-1271v3 (4C/8T, 3.6GHz)
Memory: 8GB RAM
Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Drive Bay 1: 1TB Enterprise HDD
Drive Bay 2: 1TB Enterprise HDD
Add On 1: Software RAID-1
Datacenter Location: Los Angeles, CA
IPv4 Addresses: /29 Allocation (5 Usable)
Network Port Speed: 1gbps (Comes Standard!)
Bandwidth: 10TB Premium Transfer
DDoS Protection: 10gbps / 30,000,000 pps (Included Free)

[꧁Jay꧂]

Assuming system is dedicated (not a VPS/VDS)

You would be able to run 12~ GMod servers or more, depending on the average load of these said servers.

TTT is not a heavy server to run, especially if you turn your servers down to 33 tickrate which I would do regardless then you would be able to fill up 32 slots 66/33 tick without a hitch.

I have ran servers for years off CPUs with the same performance, the most stressful being my old MilRP server with 40 active players on Nutscript at 66tick. I had to turn it down to 33 tickrate to make performance more consistent but that was with 40 active players.

You won't have an issue, for Sandbox I ran again same performing hardware for 20~ active players at 66 tickrate with 100~ addons without a problem either.


As for the 8GB of ram, it depends on your addons and the maps you use. My old PH server never saw past 600MB of RAM utilization even with 64 players on. I ran 66 tickrate on that too with hardware that was a fraction of yours.

Edit: I forgot to include that I have experienced DarkRP servers using a few GB of RAM, though this is down to poorly made addons in the server collection and are considered an anomaly.
Some game panels such as Pterodactyl I have observed output incorrect memory values such as GMod servers consuming 4GB of RAM while Linux reports only 700MB of usage.

If you setup your Ubuntu Server to utilize your /29 you can have multiple servers on port 27015 which lets you make very easy to remember addresses for your players. Otherwise you'd need to add a port number for your servers.
Doesn't effect much either way, just looks nice.


TL:DR Summary, you'll be able to host plenty. Really you won't have to think about hardware performance, focus on the experience for your players and everything will go smooth. Good luck

[LeviN]

Thanks for the reply! That helps. Yeah I'm trying to utilize at most 32 slots, then run other game instances that I work on: cs:go, half-life games and so forth.

The current one I have is below, which was giving me problems:

Eight virtual CPU cores (underlying physical CPU is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz)
8192 MB of RAM
500 GB of RAID-protected storage
48000 GB of bandwidth transfer