hosting a server

2008-01-10 20:07:36

#1

CanadianLoser: Meow :3 :3; +1,148|6993

alright, this may sound nooby, mainly because i am one in the field of servers, so i need you to take it slow for me. I have an extra computer my mom gave to me, it has 480 mb of ram, it has an intel pentium 4 CPU 2.00 GHz 2.67 GHZ no video or sound cards, just built into the mobo, or at least i think -_-. so my question is could i make it into some sort of game or website perm. server and possibly make a profit off of it?

thanks

/noob

2008-01-10 20:08:29

#2

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7192|67.222.138.85

Chances of making a profit off it? Very low.

Chances of making a game/communication server or two? Very good.

2008-01-10 20:11:52

#3

ig: This topic seems to have no actual posts; +1,199|7007

i thought you had to have a decent to good computer to run a game server from. i don't really know though.

2008-01-10 20:20:19

#4

LT.Victim: Member; +1,175|7048|British Columbia, Canada

ig wrote:
i thought you had to have a decent to good computer to run a game server from. i don't really know though.

Na..

Take BF2's recommendations for Game Servers..

Hardware

* Minimum Specification, based on playing a 16 player game:
o CPU: 1 GHz
o RAM: 384 Mb

* Recommended Specification, based on playing a 64 player game:
o CPU: 3 GHz.
o RAM: 1 GB

Bandwidth

(This is only applies when running internet games)

* Minimum 2.5 Mbit

* Recommended 5Mbit

2008-01-10 20:25:52

#5

ig: This topic seems to have no actual posts; +1,199|7007

LT.Victim wrote:
ig wrote:
i thought you had to have a decent to good computer to run a game server from. i don't really know though.
Na..

Take BF2's recommendations for Game Servers..

Hardware

* Minimum Specification, based on playing a 16 player game:
o CPU: 1 GHz
o RAM: 384 Mb

* Recommended Specification, based on playing a 64 player game:
o CPU: 3 GHz.
o RAM: 1 GB

Bandwidth

(This is only applies when running internet games)

* Minimum 2.5 Mbit

* Recommended 5Mbit

well bf2 servers are shitty enough. i can't imagine playing on a server that has 10% of the performance of my computer.

2008-01-10 20:31:17

#6

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7192|67.222.138.85

ig wrote:
LT.Victim wrote:
ig wrote:
i thought you had to have a decent to good computer to run a game server from. i don't really know though.
Na..

Take BF2's recommendations for Game Servers..

Hardware

* Minimum Specification, based on playing a 16 player game:
o CPU: 1 GHz
o RAM: 384 Mb

* Recommended Specification, based on playing a 64 player game:
o CPU: 3 GHz.
o RAM: 1 GB

Bandwidth

(This is only applies when running internet games)

* Minimum 2.5 Mbit

* Recommended 5Mbit
well bf2 servers are shitty enough. i can't imagine playing on a server that has 10% of the performance of my computer.

Set up a server on a 3400+ and 2gb of RAM, ran TS, a CSS server, and a BF2 server with good reg on all.

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