[olug] Cox Business Pricing

Will Langford unfies at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 02:16:45 UTC 2010


>
> Xen/KVM emulate hardware to varying degrees, so also have significant
> overhead
> that makes them unsuitable if you want fast response times (latency;
> especially important for game servers). OpenVZ, on the other hand, doesn't
> have any of this overhead (it doesn't emulate *anything*). I tried a Xen
> VPS
> once, and decided I'm sticking with OpenVZ. :)
>
>
For game servers ? Does $30 a month really hurt that bad for a dedicated
tiny box from some provider ? :)

Game servers on a VPS is haphazard at best in the year or so I've fiddled
with VPS & dedicated at the same time (re: zdaemon/doom servers).

-Will



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