Small Dedicated Server - Suggestions?

[meatball 25]

A handful of friends and I play A3 pretty frequently with our own missions and I'm thinking of putting together a dedicated server for our use. Wouldn't need to be anything crazy and would at most have 8-10 people on it, but could easily have a few hundred AI running as well. Since I have the best ISP speeds of the group (30 Mb Down/5 Mb Up) I've been hosting locally on my machine without too much of an issue (Core i5-3570K Oc'd to 4 Ghz), but would rather offload the server duties to a separate box.

I have an old Dell Optiplex box sitting here with a Core 2 Duo e6600 (2.4 Ghz) and 4 GB of RAM in it. Think that'd be up to snuff to handle some light Dedicated server duties?

[griffz 1]

i think it would be okay, but you need to have a light hand with battlescale.

bandwith need / player depends directly of the mission, but you can aim 600kbps/player to be comfortable.

[meatball 25]

When you say battlescale, I assume you mean the overall area of the battle? For the most of our missions with heavy AI, we've been sticking with Stratis, so I think we're alright. I also have made most of the missions to keep the action mostly centered around the players. I take it core speed is more important than multicores? I know there's some relatively cheap AMD APU's that get 3.5 Ghz+ that I could probably build a server on the cheap with.

[griffz 1]

the CPU and bandwith bottleneck has more to do with number of Ai units and number of players.a cti loaded with AI use up to 900kpbs / player.

that lets you host a such game with 6 or 7 player MAX. a less dense game will be okay with 10 player i think.

Edited September 17, 2013 by griffz

[meatball 25]

Excellent, thanks for the info :)