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maxdamage99
9th December 2015, 18:28
-I think many will be interested to know. What settings better for Game Server?
What type of virtualization VDS(virtual machine) better? (For the server uses libcod)

SSD KVM
HDD KVM
HDD OPENVZ

Which operating system is best? (Linux core) (For the server uses libcod)

Centos
Debian
Ubuntu
Mint

KungFooMan, IznoGod, Mitch and everyone rant answer, what do you think :)

IzNoGoD
9th December 2015, 19:37
100% depends on the vps. KVM and OPENVZ can both be oversold, and are mostly quite oversold on cpu-cycles, which is what you mostly need on a cod server.

HDD/SSD is not really an issue as you can tweak cod to only require IO when the map changes.

Mint is not an OS i'd consider for a server, as it is just ubuntu with a different GUI (and you will most likely not be using the GUI to begin with on a server). I personally prefer ubuntu over debian as I have run into issues with debian in the past. Centos also has some weird quirks regarding dependencies for libcod (especially the mysql client...)

And to return to the kvm vs openvz battle: at the same host, kvm is usually less oversold than openvz, but i've been running my cod2+4 servers off a dirt cheap openvz provider for a while without major issues. Currently running off a vmware virtualized host.

Selbie
18th December 2015, 15:34
True, getting libcod working on CentOS is quite hard, but it's possible on RHEL 6.

I would suggest Ubuntu if your new to Linux.