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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: y00tz on July 28, 2007, 11:32:38 PM
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I spent today re-hosting everything on our new server...
Anyway, I'm going to take home one of the boxes and set up a paintball dedicated server, I just haven't decided which box to use... Are any of these even releastically suitable to run a paintball server?
P2 533 - Windows 98 SE / 192 MB pc100 / 9600XT(I have not idea how this even got in here...)
P2 366 - Windows 98 / 64MB pc100
Celeron 800 XP Pro / 128 MB pc100
P3 933 XP Home / 256 pc133/ 9200SE
Should I stick with their default OSes, or use a copy of DSL, SLAX, etc. to save resources?
edit: btw, these are the least server-y of the group, so I thought I'd save them for something like paintball, while the others (mostly newer) will probably be re-located amongst work for stuff like internal servers and databases.
Just so nobody asks, 'doesn't your work place have t1, why don't you host the box there?' .. I bought all the boxes, but I don't own the bandwidth, err the tubes...
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Use that P3 but install some other OS, even Win2k would be good. You want decent ram in it.
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If I may make a suggestion:
The old SnowStorm server was a dual p3-450 with 512 meg. We had slackware on it and hosted 3 DP servers and 3 CS servers on it without a hickup. ( we also had soem VERY fat pipes.....)
If you really want to set up a server, you might want to check on eBay.
I recently purchased 2 HP Netserver 1000 lpr's. dual 1.4 gig cpus, 512 meg ram, 2x 18 gig hdd ( SCSI 3 10k) with an internal SCSI RAID card. I installed fedora on one and set the HDD's to RAID 1. With shipping I paid just under $175.00 each.
Just a thought.
Check THIS (http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-Netserver-LP-2000-r-Dual-P-III-1-26GHz-1GB-36GB_W0QQitemZ260143995306QQihZ016QQcategoryZ73325QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) out.
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I'd use a Windows OS, but preferably 2000 or XP. Windows clients work better on Windows servers because the floating point calculations are consistent. Also, the older CPU's don't support SSE, which I currently require on the Linux builds to improve that consistency. The P3 is probably your best bet.