Kaliya

3 minutes ago, kreliz said:

Don't focus to much on CPU performance. We have a 6 year old i7 3930 (3,2GHz) and runs everything we throw at it without breaking a sweat. Focus on 1) your inet speed, anything below an actual 500Mbps upload will get you into trouble for what you want to do. Lag and rubberbanding guaranteed.  2) RAM, all the RAM, all of it, everything single slot filled!! These 150 slot severs will have 128GB at the very least! And you will need to look at PVE (proxmox or such) otherwise you are going to need 16 (as you want 4x4) single dedicated servers!

I have a few decent servers running co-located at an actual datacenter :P, I am not worried about upload/download. Just worried about how I need to distribute the load across them. 

4 hours ago, Realist said:

Yeah 4 servers is 2x2 no way you are running a 4x4

You misunderstood what I meant I think. The official servers seem to use multiple dedicated machines, each running 4 servers each (for a total of 64 dedicated machines, assuming i am right). We do not know the specs that these dedicated machines have, but given the fact that official servers have to host 150 people per server, my guess would be a processor with less cores and higher clock speeds (think instead of running a many core server processor, they're running like an i7 8700k or something). I want to host an ATLAS that is 4x4 with 25 players per server not 150. This is where more cores would be better I believe than higher clock frequency.

Could we get an estimate on what sorta server specs we are looking at needing to host a decent amount of grid spaces? I have a decent server laying around with:

Dual Xeon E5-2670 (2.66GHz / 3.3GHz Turbo / 16 Cores / 32 threads)

128GB DDR3 RAM

Would it be possible to host a 4x4 grid on that for say 25 players per grid square? I noticed in the example ServerGrid.json it looks like the official server host 4 servers per machine at 150 users each, could we perhaps get to know what specs those machines are running?