In anticipation and wishful thinking of, should I install Origin on my box? I understand that Venice works as a server with your own client. It would just be faster to download from Origin than to upload from my PC. I am assuming then it is just a matter of integrating Venice?
If my game is installed on the box, will it running there conflict in any way my ability to run my client and play on the server? I prefer not to have to buy the game just to run a server. I can just see maybe a potential GUID conflict?
I have 5 IP's assigned to my box. Will we be able to bind an IP to each server? I would like to run more than one and bind each server to its own IP. I never got a solid answer about this for BC2, so I am hoping we can do it here.
Can we run multiple servers from a single install? For example, my COD4 servers, I can run multiple servers from a single install using "+set fs_homepath Server1" etc for each server on the command line. Server2, Server3 etc. Can we do this with Venice?
Realistically, from your experience with the server so far, how many servers can I run simultaneously on our box at one time? I have several servers installed for other games, I am currently using about 8 gigs RAM and about 3-5% CPU. I will probably install servers on my SSD drive, unless you recommend otherwise. Primarily I use the SSD to run my MySQL databases for the B3 bots.
Server specs.
Intel Xeon E3-1271v3 processor (4 physical 3.6ghz cores on QPI + hyperthreading + turbo->4.0ghz) (8 cores total)
32 GB DDR3-1600 ECC memory
240 GB SSD drive
2000 GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive
18000 GB of InterNAP bandwidth (20000 Mbps capacity)
Able to host around 300-350 connected players at once
5 IP's
Thanks for what you are doing here NoFate. It is immensely appreciated.