High Quality Server?

[tristangemus]

I am creating a game server business and have finally setup TC Admin with my add on ips and more and have been using Cent OS for only a few hours. Picking it up pretty quickly.

 

I used to be a competitive CS:S player and high quality servers were what people wanted and they were paying even $50 for a private server per month. These servers have been known as "1000 FPS servers" and etc. Here is my dedicated server hardware setup:

 

Intel Xeon e3-1230 quad core (8 HT Cores)

32 GB DDR3 RAM

3TB Hard Drive

100 MBPS Uplink

 

Now my question is how would I create a server which would be of high quality? Other than setting the counter strike source server fps_max to 1000? Is there something to do in Tc Admin or linux if anyone is familiar with this? Would really help. Thanks.

[icekohl]

Prepare to read, and possibly have your OS reinstalled if you make a mistake.

 

One of the biggest things you're going to need is to customize/optimize the kernel.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=486424

http://www.t-gk.net/computer-stuff/dedicated-game-server/

 

Read everything there and then google some more.

 

SRCDS forum has just about everything you need. I put the other link in there because it's more CentOS specific. I'd suggest reading through everything available though and then make your own step by step plan and give it a go.

[asphyx]

and its better to run 1000 Mbit Uplink instead of 100 :-)

[Matt]

fps_max is now a defunct command. To get a server running at 1000 FPS you will have to do some third party modifications.

 

At the end of the day how noticeable is a server running at 1000 FPS gaming wise compared to the default 66 FPS.

 

I'd be more worried about keeping the FPS stable rather than high, there's no benefit of having a server run at 1000 FPS if it tanks when people start playing on it.

 

For a high quality game server I'd be looking at a 1270v2 for a start.

 

1000Mbps won't increase performance, however it will help if the server gets attacked (expect it to).

[Ryan_Hemsley]

Myself I use

 

2 x XEON 5620

3TB HDD

32GB RAM

1000 Mbit Uplink

Windows 2008 R2 Standard