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misterdanny
06-03-2006, 04:06
im looking at two potentional dedicated servers.
one is a AMD Sempron 2600 with a half gig of ram
the other is a AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ with a gig of ram
im not so concerned about the ram i think a half gig should be plenty
but im just curious abuot how many clients could i run on each of these? because im going to buy a server just for hosting ts
You shouldnt be asking your self about system specs at this point (those look fine). You should be asking yourself about bandwidth. What is your upload speed? That is what affects it. I have gotten 24 people on a 40kb/s up on a p3 128mb ram.
misterdanny
06-03-2006, 22:35
i know upload speed form the server is atleast 250 kbps
AMessler
07-03-2006, 01:40
You can run a couple hundred on them but like was said before the Bandwith will have alot to do with it and 256 aint crap. You will need at least a 100mbit to get you started or better. Don't expect to set up a server at your home with those spec's and expect to have a couple hundred people join not unless your running Fiber with a nice upload speed.
misterdanny
07-03-2006, 01:45
im not hosting it from home, its going ot be by a provider on a 10 mbits line (which i can upgrade to 100 if i need to)
on a 10 mb test download i got 250 kbps, i think the reason it didnt go any higher was becasue it was capped by my download speed
a AMD Sempron 2600 with a half gig of ram should suffice the load right?
@Veggii, You might've been able to run them on 40KB/s @ a lower end codec, but you could not have too many of them talk at once.
So anyways, you need to do some math. say you have a 10MB/s upload. Then that Equals 10000 KB/s. So if you had the codec at 25.9 (round up to 26) for a channel and 100 people were in it at once and one person was talking while the rest were silent, then, you would need 26 Dl and 2,574 up (minus the talking person because he does not get sent back anything). So if you had 2 people talking it would be 52 DL and 5148 up. I doubt that you would have that many people in one channel and only have a few listening. So, anyways, you get the idea. LOTS OF BANDWIDTH!
AMessler
07-03-2006, 03:05
Hell man you can run TS on an old P-500 linux box with only 256 or ram that's not the prob at all it's the bandwith and the dl don't mean crap either it's the upload you need.
Hell man you can run TS on an old P-500 linux box with only 256 or ram that's not the prob at all it's the bandwith and the dl don't mean crap either it's the upload you need.Exactly. I think our point has been made, men.
misterdanny
07-03-2006, 22:41
ok i kind of stated this wrong
im going to run several "virtual" teamspeak servers on a single box, each virtual server will probaly be on avarage 24-28 clients
i am hoping ot get to run atleast 10 or more virtual teamspeak servers on this one box
We knew that you meant that. BTW: If you have 100 or more slots on a server box or more then 10 virtual servers then you must pay to use that. http://sales.tritoncia.com/pricing.php
misterdanny
07-03-2006, 22:49
im aware of the liscencing stuff, im just needing to know if the idea of running 10 or more virtual servers on this machine is pratical or not or if it would overload the machine
i know a single server needs almost nothing, but having multiples of servers im not sure
Nope, like AMessler said, you could run it on a toaster. (Well maybe not a toaster.) The real problem is the bandwidth.
AMessler
08-03-2006, 01:39
Like what was already stated yes you can do it but make sure you have good bandwith.
@Veggii, You might've been able to run them on 40KB/s @ a lower end codec, but you could not have too many of them talk at once.
So anyways, you need to do some math. say you have a 10MB/s upload. Then that Equals 10000 KB/s. So if you had the codec at 25.9 (round up to 26) for a channel and 100 people were in it at once and one person was talking while the rest were silent, then, you would need 26 Dl and 2,574 up (minus the talking person because he does not get sent back anything). So if you had 2 people talking it would be 52 DL and 5148 up. I doubt that you would have that many people in one channel and only have a few listening. So, anyways, you get the idea. LOTS OF BANDWIDTH!
Codec was Speex 16.3 Kbit and everyone wasnt talking at once, around 3-5 were having a conversation on average.
Codec was Speex 16.3 Kbit and everyone wasnt talking at once, around 3-5 were having a conversation on average.
I see. Lets say that 1 person was talking and 4 were listening. Then it would be 16.3 down and 65.2 up. Had to have been more man. (Or lots of lag)
The amount of users a TeamSpeak 2 server can handle depends primarily on the server's Internet connection as CPU usage is very low.
How much bandwidth does TeamSpeak require? (http://www.goteamspeak.com/printview.php?id=34)
What are codecs, and how do they differ? (http://www.goteamspeak.com/printview.php?id=4)
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