Thoughts on AWS?

[oldmanmike]

I'm currently preparing to start a Direwolf20 or Monster server and as it stands I do not have the computing resources or broadband to smoothly host such a server in a way that would scale to any more than 5 players. So I'm in the market for hosts, like many others.

I'm leaning towards either renting a dedicated box over at OVH or a VM on Amazon's Web Service platform. I've read rave reviews of OVH as a host on this forum, but I don't hear much about AWS for hosting a mod server in general. There's guides on using it for vanilla servers, but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried AWS for a full-blown FTB server or at the very least would have insights on the sanity of the idea.

 

[Connor Gavitt]

Hardly any of us have experience with cloud based minecraft servers, a user recently started a cloud minecraft server though only saying it was good after 1 day of usage is all we got.

 

[DZCreeper]

Honestly, AWS is cheaper when your only keeping your server up for a certain amount of time per month. Its a game server though so you want it up 24/7.

 

[oldmanmike]

Provided said game server is large enough to actually be active 24/7. Our server is aimed at a small community of friends and acquaintances where having 6+ people on at the same time is something of a phenomenon worth explicitly mentioning in chat. So while it would be ideal to have maximum uptime, it would most likely be a waste of resources and money during the times everyone is either too busy or just burned out on the game.

This is the primary reason I'm looking at AWS in the first place. There is no pattern to our server's traffic and being able to scale the server to handle short-term spikes in activity would be nice.

 

[LeoMC]

I've had a great experience with OVH, especially the fast support. I would go with OVH.

 

[Redruzerkruzer]

OVH all the way. They are simply the best imo. Cloud servers are meh with me. Could be a total waste of money, could be worth every penny. It is just a risk, and since not a lot of people have done it, there isn't much to go off of, sadly. I usually get a reply from support within 15 minutes of sending a ticket. Their best record was 6 minutes with me .

 

[Wagon153]

Not to mention Forgecraft is hosted on OVH from what I hear.

 

[oldmanmike]

Not to mention Forgecraft is hosted on OVH from what I hear.

Yeah, it is. That's about the strongest implicit recommendation a host can get imo.

OVH all the way. They are simply the best imo. Cloud servers are meh with me. Could be a total waste of money, could be worth every penny. It is just a risk, and since not a lot of people have done it, there isn't much to go off of, sadly. I usually get a reply from support within 15 minutes of sending a ticket. Their best record was 6 minutes with me .

I'm probably going to just get a dedicated box on OVH and migrate all my servers/services into VMs on it. For a FTB server alone for no more than 10 people, it seems like overkill. But I could also put an IRC, Mumble, and Apache server on it too. Also, there's the SSDs. You don't get much with AWS.

 

[Redruzerkruzer]

http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/sys-e32-2.xml This should work just fine. As i post this, they do not have any available atm, but they do have an upgraded version for an extra 9$/m. Yes, these OVH servers could run a lot. Except for the size of the SSDs. They configure the servers in raid-1. This gives you double the speed over a single SSD at the cost of less space. Meaning with that SSD server, you will be limited to about 115GB of space. And if one SSD fails, you will not lose anything since they are a mirror of each other. You can however, send them a mail before you buy the server and work with them so they configure it in raid-0 so that you have around 230GB of space to use, at the cost of less speed and less protection incase one fails.

PS: soyoustart is OVH, they just made the main OVH page for the super high end servers, and made a separate name for the beginner servers (Great for us hosts).

 

[oldmanmike]

You're telling me I actually have to worry about space complexity for once in my life? :b

 

[Redruzerkruzer]

Yup.. I am still getting used to it. So much power, but so little space. I mean.. You could go with the HDD disks they have, but you would need to pre-generate the world and risk tps drops when players do too much or get to end-game. I have an 8k radius map, with 2 mining worlds (not generated) and a nether (Also not generated), along with plugins. I use about 28 gigs of space on that. Which isn't that bad at all.