Server hosting

[signal rune]

Hi, I'm trying to host a server for max 80 people with mods around 50 and it's like 500 MB. What CPU, RAM, space would I need?

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well, space and RAM don't matter much - RAM is just going to be about 1.5GB + mods and servers don't take much space, either

in terms of CPU any semi-recent (Zen 2 or above for AMD, 10th series or higher for Intel) consumer (not server) CPU should do, you'd specifically want at least 2 vcores

CPU requirements could go up if there are heavy plugins

[signal rune]

Okay thanks

[undone cove]

Ram does matter alot

Especially when you have 80 players building items and adding to words assets.

I would recommend getting some high ram along with a good cpu

[signal rune]

Is there any good ratio player to ram needed?

[undone cove]

Nah just buy like 6gb-10gb

You said 50+ mods that takes some ram and you don't want your server to clock out and do the infinite restart.

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Show me one server using 10GB

[undone cove]

Depends on the mods I would assume he is making a roleplay or sorts with the 50+ mods I know plenty of Rps that use this much.

Now If it is a pvp type server then 6gb would be fit.

Hence why I said 6gb-10gb as the range is vast.

Also I think your underestimating what 80 players can do to a server.

But as I said 10gb is on the high end 6gb-10gb means anywhere on between that as such 6 7 8 9 10 therfore he may not need 10gb but for what he is wanting to run I would assume he would need 6gb or more. This all depends on mods. Mods take some ram along with map size ect. Neylex, OGN, hypnotic and a few other big servers would need 10gb of ram. They all have around 80 players (not nylex but he has tons of mods) so I would say that estimate would be a good one. And you assuming you need 1.5gb is crazy as the server uses more then that to even boot up. Also unless the mods are very small it's going to take atleast a few gb to load. Plus any other player built structures.

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I mostly certainly am not, especially when it comes to things like RAM which are barely affected

[undone cove]

It's more or less if they build alot of stuff in a area it uses more ram same with the cpu. Cpu takes the blunt of it but you would still require more ram.

[compact badge]

I'll also note that at least of those servers OGN didn't use that much the last I heard

don't really know anything about the others

I could find out but I doubt any are using 10

and, as I originally said, it's 1.5GB + mods

[undone cove]

Ah my bad I read it as 1.5gb total.

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(last I heard was iirc a couple months back, the server hasn't changed significantly since then but I could ask Will or someone else with access 💀)

[undone cove]

I think OGN has pretty good mod optimization but I know most of the others are at it or close.

I would ask him and see.

I don't play alot of rp servers I played ong for a bit but then it kind of died out.

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RAM and space not mattering much in general is very much true though, particularly compared to CPU - I've yet to see many people limited by RAM or especially disk space but CPU has been a problem for ages, especially with how single-threaded the game is and how badly a lot of plugins behave

[undone cove]

Most services give you infinite disk space right? I may be wrong on this

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almost nobody does

[undone cove]

I believe bisect will.

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there are a few services that will advertise such but there's always some sort of an usage limit, usually covered in the terms

[undone cove]

Yea I don't think a unturned server will reach that though

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not that it matters, for actual game server stuff you'd be severely limited by other factors first

[undone cove]

True.

I would buy like a good cpu and a decent amount of ram more mods more ram.

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the only game that I know of that realistically can have a server's size balloon quite a bit is Minecraft but even that is rare and usually limited to plain survival servers and the like

[undone cove]

I don't play minecraft so I wouldn't know.

[compact badge]

larger (or long-term) servers can have 100GB+ of files practically entirely through map exploration

I'd be surprised if you could find many Unturned servers using 10GB, much less 20GB of space

basically for Unturned you need at most about 4GB + mods of actual disk space - assuming you don't have any plugins creating large files for some unknown reason

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(over 10GB is practically exclusively for servers with large amounts of mods)

[signal rune]

I'll think about it and thanks

[foggy folio]

if you get plugins, remember to clean your logs from time to time

for example there, for some reason it generated that file (see image) , and my server only has 3 GB of storage space...

Pustalorc from Imperial plugins said it was a core dump:

Core memory dump in Linux. Created by a server crash.
and its safe to delete. Similarly, sometimes plugins can start spamming errors on console nonstop, creating huge log files as a result, which are also fine to delete.

This server is handling 50ish players right now and wipes monthly, yet it hasn't reached the 3GB of storage mark. and other than logs, I don't really delete/clean stuff on it often

[compact badge]

I'll note that log files are automatically deleted so no reason to care about them

especially if you're not downloading them elsewhere it doesn't make sense to get rid of them prematurely

[foggy folio]

Oh didnt know that lmao

[compact badge]

plugins generating whatever files on their own could be suspect but unless they're doing something really weird log files shouldn't be any kind of an issue

[foggy folio]

For me it happened when the hosting kept having networking issues, mysql plugins kept generating errors over and over and log files were getting crazy