I just wanted to share a little something with you folks
This was more of a reply to another thread and it got a bit long so I started my own thread.
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I have just a couple of things to say .
First, you can play on my server. I think I'm a decent admin and I don't abuse rights!
My Server IP is 208.46.61.138
Please feel free to come by and play. My server is down tonight for maintanence, but will be back up tomorrow at 9am
It is a Real server. Not a desktop box running a game.
I built the server myself. It runs Windows Server 2003 and between me and 2 other guys we have a real server that we built, a rack at a buddies place of work, and a T1 line dedicated to only this server! I think because of this we sometimes don't like to tolerate bitching (but we do). I mean I built the freakin thing. We pay for the Electric, the T1, and all the other network stuff. We are all Network/Server guys at our real jobs during the day so we thought it would be fun to do this and host all the stuff ourselves
Here are the specs:
Compaq Proliant 3000 Rack mount Server.
Dual PIII 500 Processors
1.5GB DDR RAM
Dual 9.1 GB 10,000RPM SCSI Drives in RAID 1+0
T1 Line dedicated only to this box for gaming.
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With 20 players playing on this server it uses only 40% of the T1's bandwidth and all players usually have about 80 ping.
The processor usage is under 10% all the time. RAM usage is about 430MB out of 1.5GB.
We can run 40+ players on this server without problems at all. I usually run a 20 Player CS game and a 20 Player TFC game.
Yes...it's kind of expensive. But we have the knowleged and we like to play the game (TFC and/or CS), so we did it.
We are all over age 30! Yes for real! We are.
We are not a bunch of immature kids who are paying for admin rights somewhere. We are adults who like to play the game and Built and host everything ourselves.
I will say this lastly. It sure does get old having people come into my server with names like bigcock. And when I ask them politely to change their name they tell me to F**K off. That is just irritating. IF you're the type of person that likes to do that you will get kicked/banned by me. If you can be half way civil we will all have fun
Heck I even allow BHOPs on my servers
Good night and God Bless...