The server with the best specs ;)

[Transcend]

lol you are just arrogant and know nothing about me.
also it is possible and if you are from lightside legend you should know that more than i do :/
ever heard of OS shedulers?
anything above MSDOS can do that,the OS automaticaly attributes a core to each application if it s not busy
and if it s not done automaticaly you can still change it via the task bar
moron(and a flaming idiot)

[Slaw]

Discussing things is a good thing, and getting heated up over the discussion's acceptable, but please try to calm down a bit. No need for insults.

[bentheexo]

that still doesnt account for why your os only supports 2 cores instead of your supposed 4 oh and btw llro is based off of a very very customize RC1 eathena that clownsius wrote himself to work with invision power board forums oh and windows is only optimizes 2 of the cores

Quad Core Management
Intels Press Release

[Chaos]

i play there and i can tell you it s smooth even with 20k summoned orcs (go check our pictures from event)
and i think i saw in Tro website that they dun realy have windows D;

[Skotlex]

Unless you do some server-side modification that will drain your performance, eAthena is known to have very small requirements. It uses 0.5~0.0% of any modern CPU, why do you need a Quad-core CPU to run that?

The real factor that everyone will always feel is the bandwidth. The most important server spec is bandwidth if you ask me. As long as the server has enough memory to not go into swap, I don't really think the rest matters that much (well, once your database gets huge, fast disk-access is important or mysql queries will start lagging the server, but that still doesn't has to do with memory nor CPU requirements).

[Chaos]

we do crazy things in there

[sineas]

Our former specs just 2 days ago:

sorry I have to use our listing banner as I don't have access to this former server anymore. Don't worry link is disabled

Our current and new dedicated server specs:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard 32 bit SP2 STD-SRV-SP2-32
Processor Slot 1: Single Processor Dual Core Opteron 1216 - 2.40GHz - 2 x 1MB cache
Processor Slot 2: Single Processor Dual Core Opteron 1216 - 2.40GHz - 2 x 1MB cache
RAM slot 1: 1GB DDR2 [1GB] Available upgrades
RAM slot 2: 1GB DDR2 [1GB] Available upgrades
RAM slot 3: 1GB DDR2 [1GB] Available upgrades
RAM slot 4: 1GB DDR2 [1GB] Available upgrades
Hard Drive 1: Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM WD1500ADFD [150GB]
Hard Drive 2:   Empty
Hard Drive 3:   Empty
Hard Drive 4:   Empty
Remote Mgmt Card: SuperMicro AOC-SIM1U IPMI-KVM
eth0 (Private): Uplink speed:   100 (Mbps) Bandwidth Allotment: Unmetered
eth1 (Public): Uplink speed:   100 (Mbps) Bandwidth Allotment: 3000Gb/mo
Cisco Public & Private 10G Networks
NAS: 1GB Lockbox
Intrusion Detection & Protection: Network IDS/IPS/DDoS Protection
Vulnerability Assessments & Management: Nessus Vulnerability Assessment & Reporting

Our website/forum/email/database are hosted separately so the main purpose of our server is purely gaming.

We've always been a true dedicated server (not a shared server)
For our network targeting locations pls proceed here: http://www.ratemyserver.net/forum/index.php/topic,1514.msg9284.html#msg9284


Just to comment on hardware configurations:
I'm what you call a hardcore pc user/gamer and modder (you can find my main fragging rig here...) I'm also active in SuperPI leagues and have some nice stickies guide there.
Anyway, back to topic... with game servers, LATENCY is the key issue, whether it's from a network connection point of view or hardware. The CPU is always a bottleneck to the memory (how much more if you're using fast RAMs) and the hard drive adds more bottlenecking to the CPU and RAM. There is no CPU and HDD or in any configuration thereof that can get rid of it's bottleneck with memories. RAM is always faster. Having  2Gb or less RAM on server would just make it worse (if we're talking about 200 or more players in RO). When you're memory runs low, it turns it's resources to PAGE FILES. Page files are temporary memory taken from your hard drive adding more to these bottleneck.The only way to counter these bottlenecks...
CPU: go with a multi core and/or multi cpu configuratuion. But even with this type of configuration the bottleneck issues is not diminished, only lessened.
HARD DRIVES: 7.2K RPM HDDs just won't cut it. Go with 10K RPMs or better still go with 15K RPM HDDs if you have the dough.
RAM: The more the better and do away with Page Files.
Network and Connection: Having 1000Mbps or 1Gb uplink is an overkill to any gameserver, 100Mbps is more than adequate. Your server's host backbone should not be "databank" and your server's host network should depend on your trgeted customers. If you're in the US and go with world domination (LOL who woudn't hahaha) make sure that it has networks in Asia and in Europe. This will help to lower the latency in their connection. Have a desired badwidth allocation, unmetered is the best way to go if it's in your budget range (10mbits is enough, 100Mbits is heaven)
OS: Go with SERVER Operating Sytems end of story. There's free server OS's out there... LINUX server distros. XP is not a server OS. It doesn't matter if  you have Vista Ultimate... it's still a home based OS.

With all those in mind, having a server box which is highly configurable and accepts upgrades in CPU,HDD,Bandwidth and RAM is a wise choice. Shared server hosting just won't cut it if you have high expectations. Either way, it's always good to know your servers capabilities and limits.... it's the only key to know if your server is performing as it should.


BTW... submit a review for our server (an honest review is what we need... it helps us pinpoint our flaws) and we'll give you a free @rk-ro.com email acct.

[bentheexo]

These are the specs of my server that I built and host myself:

Processor: Pentium 4/HTT 1.8GHz w/8Mb L2 cache
Memory: 2Gb of Cosair SDRAM 333Mhz
HDD: 2x 80Gb Western Digital 10k RPM SATA
Burner: Lite-On DVD+RW / +R DL
OS: Windows Advance Server 2000
Bandwidth: 30Mb/s down 15Mb/s up