I am paying $70 for Dual Xeon5420's and 16gb of ram, I am running my Factions PvP server with 10gb of ram. All was fine until I decided to upgrade to the newest factions + MCore (Went from 1.6 to 2.2) and I am getting a ton of CPU spikes. Should I expect this from what I am paying? What processor should I get if I was to upgrade?
5420's are very old, I use them myself for a large website and even that makes it choke. If you want to upgrade, E3's are in your price range. Europe - http://oneprovider.com/dedicated-servers/paris-france US - http://oneprovider.com/dedicated-servers/washington-usa Slightly higher in the US, all the places for $70 E3's I know of are out of stock. But hey, you might fix your Factions and have everything running smooth on your current hardware again.
Pretty low disk space for the price, but the cpu is great and ram is plentiful. If you can't find SSD's or high rpm drives, it'll do just fine.
What do SSD's really do for a minecraft server? I never understood. I could probably upgrade HDD space for a bit more.
Put simply, they generate chunks faster. Much faster. Here's a video. It's old, but still applies. Now imagine 100 people on a server exploring new terrain being generated on a HDD. It won't keep up. I can even set my fly speed to 4 and beat the terrain generation, I end up in nothingness.
I would like to spend max $100, and somewhere in the US, not too picky since I live in the center of the US.
E3-1245v2 w/ 16gb ram. http://www.reliablesite.net/dedicat...er=intel-xeon-e3-1245v2&promo=S1245&amount=90 Click "Customize and order", add a 100mbps port, 64gb primary ssd drive, 500gb second hard drive, and that'll come to $99 today, and $89 every month after.
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