Ryoden 0 Posted April 23, 2019 I am very unfamiliar with the process of hosting a server beyond the most basic understanding of how it's supposed to work. However, I have recently been given several PCs. I know that I could set them up to run a server but I did not know what the limitations on that would be. Like would I need a single PC per server? Does it have something to do with the number of cores that each PCS processor has? It seems doubtful but could I have a single PC host the entire 15 by 15 map? Before I start watching YouTube videos on how to set up my PC and router as a server I figured it would make sense to ask about this specific game on this form. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shadowsong 12 Posted April 24, 2019 10 hours ago, Ryoden said: I am very unfamiliar with the process of hosting a server beyond the most basic understanding of how it's supposed to work. However, I have recently been given several PCs. I know that I could set them up to run a server but I did not know what the limitations on that would be. Like would I need a single PC per server? Does it have something to do with the number of cores that each PCS processor has? It seems doubtful but could I have a single PC host the entire 15 by 15 map? Before I start watching YouTube videos on how to set up my PC and router as a server I figured it would make sense to ask about this specific game on this form. Thanks. You can indeed utilize multiple PC's to setup a cluster, as a real basic starting point i'd consider the following: Allow up up to 5GB of memory per grid (assuming you have no more than 6 islands) Allow 1 Physical CPU core per grid minimum. This can potentially be streched if you have newer processors and drop the server tick rate. As for the server setup, you would install ATLAS on each physical box and then choose one to run the Redis DB and point the others too it. Plan your ports, e.g - Game: 11000 Query: 12000 Seemless: 13000 RCON: 14000 then increase each number by 5 as you work your way though your servers. As a real world example, I run a 5x5 on a new 16 core CPU with 128GB of memory. At idle CPU usage is around 30-40% and memory around 98GB. These figures do increase as players jump on so you need to allow for extra headroom. As for hosting a 15x15 on a single grid - It would be possible, but you would need some considerable hardware. Something like a quad socket server housing the soon to be released 64 core AMD EPYC chips and over 1TB of memory. So nothing viable 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ryoden 0 Posted April 24, 2019 Thank you very much for the guidance. It really helps to get perspective on how this could end up working. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
