Anyone tried hosting a game server on BT Infinity?


Recommended Posts

Hi all,

We ordered BT Infinity a few days ago which is due to go live on Thursday and I'm wondering what it would be like to run a Minecraft server. I'm currently paying ?10 for a 20 slot Minecraft server with Nitrous-Networks but they disabled my account today because one of my plugins was bugged and was using a full cores worth of CPU power (sharing hosting is a pain). While I understand that bugs can pop up, I spoke to someone on tech support and they were helping me sort things out but forgot to enable my service so I'm now stuck without access to my server until sometime tomorrow.

Any ways, because of this, I've decided I want more control over hosting a Minecraft server so I want to host it at home. I believe we are getting the 80/20 package (I know the speeds will be different when we get it) so all I need to do is pick the right amount of slots for the server and get my router to use the dynamic host feature for when my IP address changes.

I'm curious as to how peoples experiences have been with hosting a server on BT Infinity and want to share the pros and cons.

Thank you.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

In theory, should be fine. But have you got a server to actually host it on? :p

Got a nice little server:

Q6600

8GB RAM

2x150GB WD Velociraptors (Non-RAID)

3x1TB RAID-5 (Soon to be 4x1TB)

3 NICs

Does Storage, Plex Server and runs 2 VM's (Domain Controller and a Debian Apache web server and IRC client)

:)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

quick google shows these;

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1070247-building-a-minecraft-server-question-about-hardware-and-bandwidth-requirements/

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/187373-minecraft-server-bandwidth-usage/

looks like you can use up a load of data on it, does BT infinity have a fair usage policy? and do they cap your speed between peak hours?

Your server spec should be fine. look into software that allows you to monitor the server. We use this at my work to monitor some servers;

http://www.nagios.org/

Link to comment
Share on other sites

i have a :

Intel Core i3 530 2.9ghz , 16gb ram, lsi megraid sas card with 2x WD Green Drives 1tb in RAID 1 ... a 120gb corsair SSD boot drive .. runnning windows server 2008 r2 with virtual box that has vms for win2k8r2 with Active Directory, Exchange Server, Sharepoint, then also has a Linux Ubuntu and a Mac OSX 10.7 vm's runs from a 350watt psu (the idea was a low pwer system that wasnt an atom.

this is for testing and learning ...as have a ms technet account ...

but i have toyed with a Team Fortress 2 server on there seeing as with the recent speed upgrade to BT Infinity i m getting 16mb upload ;) ...and yes it works btw

and btw i asked the question before i signed to BT a year ago .... the reply i got was yes they dont mind you hosting servers as long as its not for anything bad and that you dont do somethings thats going to bring down the network (as in spam emails etc or **** someone that desides to DOS you)

if you have the up to 80mb down and up to 20mb up ..service you dont have a BandWidth allowance its unlimited however yes fairusage policy in the terms of peak times and torrents are throttled ....

all other lower speed services have a 60gb or below bandwidth allowance and the fair usage policy so if u intended to host 24/7 u need to go Unlimted BandWidth.

used to have a Q6600 myself .. not a bad chip but ;) prefer core i's now ... have 2x i7 machines desktop and laptop then my i3 server low power

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I just tested a server with 1 player online and chunking (i.e I teleported to a new area) used about 40KB/s upload, so if you assume about 50KB/s average per player to be safe, you have enough bandwidth for at least 50 slots.

I'm pretty sure you can handle a lot more than that though, because on my pitiful connection (10/0.9 according to speedtest.net lol) I can host 10 players without lag no trouble.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Was you on an openvz host...? Openvz and minecraft don't play well together.you don't get full dedicated resources with Openvz. Xen is best for minecraft. Xen has guaranteed resources and works more isolated.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

OpenVZ is not true virtualization but really containerization like BSD Jails. Technologies like VMWare and Xen are more flexible in that they virtualize the entire machine and can run multiple operating systems. OpenVZ uses a single patched Linux kernel and therefore can run only Linux. However because it doesn't have the overhead of a true hypervisor, it is very fast and efficient. The disadvantage with this approach is the single kernel. All guests must function with the same kernel version that the host uses.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.