Maryland / Virginia Based Server

[RHS-Jeff 0]

Hello everyone, i'm new to the community and mod here, and I would like to payback the enjoyment I have had so far with this mod. My brother and I run a Co-Location / Dedicated Server / VPS hosting company based out of the Maryland / Northern Virginia area. Basically our physical location is in Baltimore, Maryland however we backhaul most of our traffic/transit from the well know Equinix DC2 in Ashburn, Virginia.

I have quite a few servers just sitting around that we would like to get setup and running to help the influx of players that their seems to be.

We have probably 10x or so of these servers sitting in a rack now doing nothing at all -

CPU: Dual Intel Xeon L5420 (2.50 GHZ x 8)

MEMORY: 24GB ECC DDR2

HARD DRIVE: 250GB SATA

We also have some higher end machines as well, but wanted to use this as a baseline to see how things work out to start.

I emailed [email protected] to get things started but had a few questions

How many servers could we expect to run on a box like this? I know it's a bit older, but I would think at least 2 per this config maybe?

Would it be better to run 2k3 or 2k8 server? Web edition OK to save license costs?

I'll be down at the data center shortly to get these boxes loaded up and ready, can anyone point me to someone I can contact to get the ball rolling so I can try and get these up and running tonight?

[fighter139 191]

Not sure if you already saw this, but:

Q: Can I host a DayZ Server?

A: Send as a email to [email protected] if your server has these broad requirements and wish to be run 24/7:

Windows OS (only tested on Windows Server 2008)

4GB RAM

Dual Core CPU (Quad recommended)

10Mbps down, 5Mbps up (considered a minimum for ~25 players, can spike well above)

Able to run the custom HIVE console EXE application

RDP for DayZ staff so updates can be self applied. Alpha is a very rough time, 10 updates van be released in an hour

MySQL (currently not used, but in Beta/Release each server will run its own DB)

Doesn't specify what OS version beyond just 2008, but I expect Standard. Anymore information than that, I don't know. Hope I helped a little!

[BwickFS39 9]

I would go with Server 2008 R2

[wolfpack81 5]

Emailing [email protected] would probably be the best idea.

[RHS-Jeff 0]

Thanks guys, got the servers loaded, dev team is working on getting the rest done! I'll post once they're done!