Server Hosting solution for DServer for Co-ops

[TP_Silk]

Does anyone here use a Server Hosting solution for running DServer? If so what sort of spec do you need in terms of memory and processor power for hosting co-ops for a reasonable number of players?

 

This is nothing urgent, just something I was thinking of as I currently host my DServer on a rather old PC and it creaks a bit at the seams if too many AI 'units' get activated at the same time (for instance a large number of multi-crew aircraft),

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

i think Dserver needs very little mate, its old and nicely lightweight.

Dserver Min specs (specs on a page somewhere this just from what i can remember)

Windows XP (think it still supported)
Single Core Cpu 2-3Ghz (Old celeron or intel 2.5Ghz+ OR Old Athlon 2Ghz+)
2Gb of Ram or more
HDD or SSD Space for OS / Game / Missions and logs
Internet Connection: ADSL/CABLE (5Mbit down by 2Mbit up?)

[TP_Silk]

My old PC certainly has better specs than that and my internet connection is cable. Thanks for the info though.

[Urra]

i think Dserver needs very little mate, its old and nicely lightweight.

 

Dserver Min specs (specs on a page somewhere this just from what i can remember)

 

Windows XP (think it still supported)

Single Core Cpu 2-3Ghz (Old celeron or intel 2.5Ghz+ OR Old Athlon 2Ghz+)

2Gb of Ram or more

HDD or SSD Space for OS / Game / Missions and logs

Internet Connection: ADSL/CABLE (5Mbit down by 2Mbit up?)

But, It's hard to find a single threaded processor these days!

[curiousGamblerr]

I got DServer running on an AWS EC2 instance. For a 24/7 multiplayer server it was prohibitively expensive, but if you just turned it on for a few hours here and there for coops it would be okay. The major issue was networking- I had to use a server in a tier with high CPU, memory and other specs in order to get adequate networking performance.

 

All in all I wouldn't recommend AWS for running a DServer (though I do like AWS for many other things). 

[TP_Silk]

Thanks for that - AWS was one of the things I was looking at..

 

The old PC is a 2.50GHz Core2 Quad with 6GB RAM by the way. I think that maybe the processor is a little slow for what I want. I'll maybe look at getting something cheap with a faster processor and the capacity to add a bunch more memory and go with that.