Whats a good band width to host a server

[Guest]

i just want to know is a 56k a good band width to host a server?

[orappa]

Ha ha, no way. I wouldn't suggest hosting a high player-count server on a home connection as ISPs tend to limit your upload rate which is important for a server. You could host a low player-count server with a broadband connection though - a 128k upload rate should be ok for that.

[[VCM]Mafia]

i just want to know is a 56k a good band width to host a server?

You could, but it is crutial for atleast the server to have a fast connection. I could have a T1 connection and connect to a 56K server and have a high ping

By the way, are you the Hunter I used to know back in the day? Or are you another Hunter?

[s0beit]

Good band is probably 10mpbs+

[[VCM]Mafia]

Good band is probably 10mpbs+

wow where can I get that kind of service? Is that only download speed and you get a terrible upload spead? I have a 4 mbps connection, but I think my ISP puts a little bit of a slant on that number. Maybe 4 mbps on a microsoft server

btw Japan has a 1 gbps connection I think i'll move there

[Ransom]

If you prove it, I'll call you the most dedicated MTA'er ever.

[Jani]

correction, microsoft has a large fiber backbone, around 13gbps as far as i remember.

yes, japan offers 1gbps direct fiber for a considerably low price, probably what the UK or USA residents would pay for a 10mbps connection.

a good upload rate would be 1mbps, but residential cable/adsl connections tend to only offer upto half of that.

if your serious about home hosting, a good connection to get would be maybe a 1mbps or 2mbps SDSL line.

[s0beit]

Jani: no way, even on 10mbps servers the pings are horrid.

im sticking to my number.

[Jani]

opium, a 10mbit upload is easy enough for a single server, when 3 of the servers on my dedi box were full ~20 players each, the bandwidth graph only reported 4mbps of upstream bandwidth usage. and its on a 100mbps connection.

[orappa]

if your serious about home hosting, a good connection to get would be maybe a 1mbps or 2mbps SDSL line.

I'd imagine that they'd be expensive because they're designed for businesses. But can't ADSL only go up to 2 Mbps at the present time anyway? (which they're working on improving)

[Ransom]

I dunno, I got ADSL and its 1mbps for like $55 (yes nasty I know but theres no other hope in the country, im goin back to the city for college soon), it only actually gives me about 250-500 lots of times I think.

[orappa]

You got royally screwed there. You should get cable because it's a dedicated digital line and it's not limited quite so much as ADSL, although ADSL has the advantage that more ISPs offer it so it should (in theory) be cheaper.

[VCES>RonSeal]

If you live in a major UK city, 8mb is now avaliable from certain companies (Bulldog,UKOnline) being the 2 i know of.

[orappa]

If you live in a major UK city, 8mb is now avaliable from certain companies (Bulldog,UKOnline) being the 2 i know of.

If I recall correctly, Bulldog internet is intended for businesses and so you only get 8Mbps at certain times of the day. This is a policy that they've had for a while but they might have changed it.

[Hieu.JZX26]

hunter, just stick to our 1's m8. u gotta be kidding?

[Blade1941]

You should have atleast 10 mbit if you wan't to host your own server? Use IIS or PWS if you want to script in ASP, or use a freebsd or a linux system if you want to host PHP, The both things are same shit just ASP is much easier to understand. Och det vet du!

[Guest]

where can i get em from

[Guest]

Idk i think Mta just kinda sucks, i run smal server for my friends at 10mbs down 1 mbps up, my ping to my self is insane on it, ot of it it less then 1ms, i work for the isp so i know its not isp side its the game mod is ehh at best.

[Jani]

where can i get em from

IIS is included in Windows Server operating systems, it can be activated on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional in the Add/Remove Components menu.

Edit: wait, this thread is a year and a half old. WTF