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I am looking for a dedicated server for game servers. I know of the planet but they dont meet the needs I want. I would like a few data centres in the Canada and the USA well accross North America. I would like them to hve a control panel like cortex. Coprtex is a control panel that has images of games so at a click of a button it installs the server for you. Could you please list DATA CENTRES NOT RESELLERS below. Please have them have a control panel or something that installs games on the fly. Also how many 64 player servers can a dedicated server host with these specs

Dual P4 2.8GHz Xeon CPUs
2048MB DDR RAM
2x36GB 15k RPM SCSI HDDs
2000 Premium Bandwidth
Private VLAN
100Mbps Uplink

Some Of The Games Would Be

America's Army: Special Forces
Battlefield 1942*
Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome*
Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII*
Battlefield 2 (unranked)
Battlefield Vietnam*
Call of Duty*
Call of Duty - United Offensive*
Counter-Strike**
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Counter-Strike: Source
Day of Defeat
Desert Combat Final*
Half-Life
Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Halo
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Breakthrough
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
Natural Selection
Return to Castle Wolfenstien: Enemy Territory*
Soldier of Fortune II*
Team Fortress Classic
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament 2004

All The Help The Greatest. But I would really like the info on Data Centres That offer The Control Panel For Games That Install And Uninstall Games On The Fly. Please list the company name and link below.

Thank You

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Following 's request and the replies from and , a short practical summary and capacity checklist is provided so the thread stays useful years later.

Pure datacenters (colo) normally sell space, power, cooling and network connectivity — they rarely bundle a full "click-to-install" game control panel as a hosted feature. If you want automated installs across multiple North American sites you can either (A) use game-hosting providers that run panels for you, or (B) colocate/lease servers in several datacenters and install your own panel or automation stack. (techtarget.com)

Common panel options: commercial panels such as TCAdmin are widely used by game hosts (they also offer “control panel hosting” to offload CPU/RAM) and there are open-source panels (OpenGamePanel and successors) you can self-install. The tradeoff is: buying/licensing a panel + integration vs. renting from a host that already provides it. Check licensing and whether the host offers separate panel hosting to reduce load on your game processes. (tcadmin.com)

Capacity planning — network is usually the hard limiter. Valve-style engines expose an sv_maxrate (bytes/sec) per player; total upstream ≈ sv_maxrate players 8 (bits). Per-player traffic varies by game and tickrate (rough, engine-level ranges of ~5–25 kB/s per player are common). That means a 64-player instance can cost from ~2.6 Mbps (at 5 kB/s per player) up to ~12.8 Mbps (at 25 kB/s). Monthly transfer for a 24/7 64-player server ranges roughly from ~830 GB/month (5 kB/s) to >4 TB/month (25 kB/s). Use these numbers to check your monthly cap and uplink headroom before packing multiple 64-player servers on one box. (developer.valvesoftware.com)

Quick test workflow: deploy one server instance, run a full-pop map, and measure CPU/memory (top/htop or Task Manager) and network (iftop, nethogs, vnstat). Scale by linear extrapolation only for network; CPU/RAM scaling is game- and mod-dependent so benchmark two or three simultaneous instances before final placement. If monthly transfer or peak uplink will be exceeded, split instances across multiple datacenters or reduce advertised slot counts.

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That is related to the planet. I want something not related to them

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Currently there are no other datacenters that offer this feature, however if you are interested in renting the server, then renting the game control panel, there are several options. You may want to look on www.webhostingtalk.com for more details regarding available hosts...

personally I have an EEGP2.8 and have had no issues from insomnia365. :lol:


*edit* just a side note, let me know if you find other datacenters that offer the 15k hard drives.

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