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I've been with a dedicated host called Honelive for about 4-5 months now on one of their Atom dedicated servers after I found that the connection on my Linode 360 was kind of flaky and was causing my Skulltag servers to stutter. I pay around $49 a month due to a special they were running on webhostingtalk, and sometimes they can go as low as $39 a month depending on if you catch them at a good time. I've gotta say that I've been impressed so far. Connection quality for my players was much improved over Linode, and it's nice not to be sweating about a 360 megabyte memory limit. They're very quick to respond to tickets too. The only issue I had was that a month or two ago, their upstream provider was knocked out of commission, but they were very forthcoming about their status and what was being done to rectify the situation.
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I've been on an atom dedicated server for a few months through a company called InterServer (HoneLive from earlier in the thread was hosted in the same building). I've been with them since last December, and although I'm mostly happy with the hosting, I'm wondering about alternatives. I would like to either pay less money to host what I've got, or pay around the same amount of money, maybe a few bucks more, to address one of the few issues I have with the hosting. Right now I pay $45 a month for a server with an Atom D510 and 2 gigs of memory, and it shows up as having four cores in htop and /cpu/procinfo. I'm not sure about what my uplink port is and how much bandwidth I've been allotted, but I've never had bandwidth issues and I've never received an e-mail from my host so whatever I'm using is clearly not an issue. I also get five IP addresses of which I use two and honestly would be fine with one if push came to shove. The main 'draw' of my server are my Skulltag servers. Depending on what the server is running they take up anywhere from 20 to 80 megs of res memory each, and I have at a minimum 9-10 running at any given time, so I tend to gobble up memory. Their CPU utilization is low, but for some weird reason every time I have ever tried to host the servers on a VPS I've had one issue or another. On the OpenVZ VPS InterServer offers, the server will freeze up for seconds at a time as it hits some sort of UDP buffer limit. On Linode Xen VPS's, there seems to be periods of time (30mins-hours) where the game will simply play choppily, stuttering around and simply not feeling smooth at all (though this last was tried around 6+ months ago so things might have changed). Amazon's cloud hosting performance was similar to Linode's but worse. Having these game servers be performant is pretty important and a good chunk of why I bother with my current Atom setup. I also use my current server as a shell for my IRC client and for personal development projects (as in I ssh in, reattach my screen and start coding with IRC in another window). This is where I'm finding the current server lacking, as I find interactive usage of the server to be quite slow compared to a VPS. The current server also hosts a website with a forum that gets relatively low traffic, and I just added a mumble server for my personal use that I'm eventually considering opening up to my skulltag players. Really, if it wasn't for the Skulltag servers I feel like I could get away with a VPS, but the ones I evaluated did not work out for me because of the jittering issues. I also feel stuck to my current host because my players really like their pings to my server and even on the Linode in New Jersey my players discovered that pings were 10-20+ greater than they were where I'm at, which made the super-low-pingers and euros unhappy. Support from my current host is adequate (they're quick about rebooting a server via an e-mail request which is honestly all I ask), but their colocations start at $100 a month which is about double what I'm willing to pay to supply my own hardware. So should I stick with what I've got, or are there better options? Unboxing Day fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Jun 22, 2011 |
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Bob Morales posted:Are your SSH windows huge (like 130x50)? I more mean responsiveness when running commands that "do stuff". Compiling stuff takes a long time, updates take forever, starting a shell in a new screen buffer takes a second or two, quitting supervisorctl frequently takes upwards of a minute, that sort of thing. It doesn't make it unusable but it is annoying, and going from that to a snappy VPS is like night and day. Interactive programs like vim and weechat are not slow to update the screen itself, if that's what you're asking. Unboxing Day fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jun 22, 2011 |
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JHVH-1 posted:You can install dstat and look where the red values are to see your bottleneck. Install sysstat so you can have sar polling and then you can get historical information. Quite odd. When I run dstat I don't really see anything too out of the ordinary: code:code:
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