VPS or Colocation Hosting?

[d3sl91]

Hey All,

 

I am an admin of a group of gamers. We have a few servers going at any one time, but have found that our server interests vary so quickly, that sometimes paying for a whole month is a waste.

 

Many of us are experienced with running servers, both managed and unmanaged. And we thought we ought to look into a local place to put a box that we can run our own servers off of. 

 

We'd be looking at:

 

1 Teamspeak Server. Average 10 users, Max 20 at a time.

 

1 Minecraft Server. Running Spigot MC, a few plugins, currently running on 1GB memory server just fine.

 

1 Insurgency Server. 8vs24 co-op.

 

1 Source or quake3 based game.

 

Would you think it would be worth it to do a colocation host of our own box, or should we look into just a gaming-oriented VPS provider?

 

If the latter... what should we be looking at for specs? Dual/tri core with 3GB ram? 

 

 

[Wferr]

I wouldn't go to collocation, much more expensive,  just get any old VPS and that would do the job. Also no need for any "gameing" orientated hosting company. I would just go with OVH and call it a day. For the amount of stuff you are running i would have at least 4 cores to keep it all happy.

[d3sl91]

I wouldn't go to collocation, much more expensive,  just get any old VPS and that would do the job. Also no need for any "gameing" orientated hosting company. I would just go with OVH and call it a day. For the amount of stuff you are running i would have at least 4 cores to keep it all happy.

Thanks for the input.

 

We have found that teh cheapest colo in our area (Portland, OR) was above $75/mo. Whereas, like you said, a 4core Xeon VPS with 4GB of ram is much less...

 

 

As for providers, I should have asked for suggestions. We currently use NFOservers for all of our servers and are very pleased.

 

We were looking at a 3 Core, 3GB, 300GBRAID, 6000GB Transfer package for $37.49/mo Any other US-Based VPS providers? Having a location on the west coast would be ideal.

[Wferr]

Thanks for the input.

 

We have found that teh cheapest colo in our area (Portland, OR) was above $75/mo. Whereas, like you said, a 4core Xeon VPS with 4GB of ram is much less...

 

 

As for providers, I should have asked for suggestions. We currently use NFOservers for all of our servers and are very pleased.

 

We were looking at a 3 Core, 3GB, 300GBRAID, 6000GB Transfer package for $37.49/mo Any other US-Based VPS providers? Having a location on the west coast would be ideal.

Personally i use OVH for all my VPS's (besides my ramnode box) They have a data center in Canada and ping to California were i am is still very reasonable. 

[emachado99]

Thanks for the input.

We have found that teh cheapest colo in our area (Portland, OR) was above $75/mo. Whereas, like you said, a 4core Xeon VPS with 4GB of ram is much less...

As for providers, I should have asked for suggestions. We currently use NFOservers for all of our servers and are very pleased.

We were looking at a 3 Core, 3GB, 300GBRAID, 6000GB Transfer package for $37.49/mo Any other US-Based VPS providers? Having a location on the west coast would be ideal.

So you Start is a sub company of OVH. Offer dedicated boxes at a much lower price, and still hosted in OVH's Montreal data center. So far you can get a quad core Xeon W3520 @2.6GHz with 16GB of ECC RAM and 2x2TB drives. You also get 16 free IP's. That's there base/lowest model for $42.00.

So check 'em out and look at there other plans. The "E3-SSD-3" plan looks like a good one too

Link: http://www.soyoustart.com/ca/en/