Do you have any advice for setting up an online game server?
I am a student and I am in a networking course and for my final report I chose to write about setting up a massive online game server (which is the field I am hope to work in). I have a number of questions: How powerful should the servers be? What kind? What OS should I use?
As a first step I would probably try to scope the project. To do this, ask yourself the following questions:
How big is the project?
How many users will connect at one time?
How many total users will be added into the database?
What type of games will be served?
How much horsepower (CPU) do these require?
How much bandwidth will this require?
Am I going to buy all this equipment and host it, or will I outsource to someone else?
One option may be to outsource the hosting to an established company. Check around and see what a hosting service would charge for this amount of bandwidth. This should help you start to work out what this project will require.
This was first published in September 2004
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