New NFO Machine (Upgrade)

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Hello everyone,

 

We have recently purchased a new NFO machine after the incident on June 24th. This machine will be costing us $10.00/m less than the old machine because we paid the one-time installation fee ($99.99).

 

The new machine specs are the following:

• Processor - Intel Xeon E3-1275v6 @ 3.8 GHz
• RAM - 64 GBs
• Disk - 1000 GBs SSD
• Price - $164.98/m

 

The old machine specs are the following:

• Processor - Intel Xeon E3-1270v5 @ 3.6 GHz
• RAM - 64 GBs
• Disk - 1000 GBs SSD
• Price - $174.98/m

 

Here's a comparison site that compares CPU's single-thread performance. The E3-1275v6 has a score of 2,359 while the E3-1270v5 has a score of 2,169. Since SRCDS is mostly single-threaded, the single-thread performance of the CPU has the biggest effect on our game servers. Overall, our servers will be performing better on this new machine.

 

I plan on moving some of the servers today (probably CS:S Surf RPG DM and CS:S Bunny Hop). I will make an announcement on the public Discord and reply to this thread once I trigger the moves.

 

Over the next few weeks, I am going to be observing the peak CPU usage on both of our NFO machines. If possible, I'd like to cut down to one NFO machine in the United States (this will save us around $164.99/m as well). I will post another update in the next few weeks to say if this is possible or not. If possible, servers like Garry's Mod Breach will also be moved to the more powerful machine which will increase performance.

 

The old machine (E3-1270v5) gets cancelled on July 11th, 2018. Therefore, we will need to have all the game servers moved off of that machine by then. I plan on having all the game servers moved well before then, though.

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know!

 

Thanks!

[Akris 806 / 18,197]

Noice

[TheJitFace 699 / 18,162]

Good job Roy. 

[Guest]

Woah that’s a lot of money every month.

[Lambda 83 / 2,588]

Cheaper costs

Better Processor

Poggers

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Update

I will be moving the servers in the next couple days. I'm off from work tomorrow, so I'll probably try to get things done today and tomorrow.

 

I didn't want to move any servers on the weekend because the weekend is the busiest time on our servers and I didn't' want to risk anything breaking.

 

Thanks!

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Update

CS:S Bunny Hop was successfully moved to the new machine without any issues.

 

Thanks!

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Update

We are moving our CS:GO Zombie Escape server to the new NFO machine very shortly. I figured this would be the best time to do it since the server is down from the CS:GO update anyways.

 

I will post another update once it's moved.

 

Thanks! 

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Another Update

Our CS:GO Zombie Escape server was successfully moved to the new NFO machine! It should be coming back up once Valve or SourceMod fixes the issue in CS:GO itself.

 

Thanks!

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Update

We are currently moving our Garry's Mod TTT #1 server to the new NFO machine. The move should go quickly since there are only ~3 GBs of custom files on the server.

 

I will reply again once the server is moved!

 

Thanks!

[Violator 2,242 / 20,845]

TTT1 has finished moving, now to delete 300,000 files and folders.