False statement in your guarantee.

[NifeEnAnkh]

Your guarantee states that you have the highest FPS servers anywhere, however one of your competitors (whom I won't link) has a 20,000,000 FPS server (hosted on an entire box like yours) for $500 a month.

I love you guys, but that's not true, and it should be!

Come out with a 20,000,001 FPS server please! And I will love you forever (even though I already do love you forever <3<3NFO).


ps. you know I can't help but to keep my favorite company in check.

[Edge100x]

LOL!

Our performance guarantee doesn't say we offer the highest FPS servers, no -- but right now we do, as far as I know.

I imagine that it's a joke, but if somebody is seriously advertising a CS:S server at 20,000,000 FPS, that's very foolish, because it's not something that they'll actually be able to deliver on. Attempting to run at higher than 10,000 FPS tends to result in a very unstable realized FPS rate. Actual performance on such a server would be worse than on a constant 10,000 FPS server because of this instability.

[NifeEnAnkh]

If you want I can give you the link, and you can delete it from the public. The server is hosted on a box similar to your $500 box, and from reading about how they do it, as well as speaking to their support to find out if it's a joke, it sounds incredibly feasible.

They list it as 500,000 - 20,000,000 FPS, 20,000,000 of course being the extreme end.

This is a well known, top-end provider (NOT AS GOOD AS NFO! They have crappy customer support, barely share any info on server hardware spec.s, etc.). I was able to get all the way to order payment and confirmation, so I seriously doubt it's simply a joke. You guys should seriously check it out. (or not so seriously, cause 20,000,000 FPS LOOOOOL?!!!3 So crazy.. real or not.)

[Edge100x]

I took a closer look and this looks like it mostly is a joke, yes. I suspect they just posted it in response to customers asking about high FPS rates so they can jokingly say that nobody else can beat them on FPS . I considered doing this myself, but I didn't want to risk anybody actually purchasing an "unlimited FPS" server and being dissatisfied by the lower performance it would actually offer.

The $500 price is a bit of a tell, actually -- since the server would top out at using a single core, and no additional bandwidth is needed, it doesn't actually cost much more than one of our "extreme" servers to run (or more than one of their "extreme" servers, either). They likely priced it at $500 with the belief that nobody would actually buy it.

If you want, I can unfetter your server here to show you an "unlimited" FPS rate. However, as you already saw with 25,000 FPS, the fluctuations (they call it "jitter") will be intense. Fluctuations are a huge headache for performance and matter much more than peak FPS -- they're why many "1000fps" servers from competitors of ours are outclassed by even our 250fps and 500fps offerings (our better bandwidth also plays a part, however).

[NifeEnAnkh]

NFO: 1, Nife: 0

[Edge100x]

Bah!

Thanks for mentioning this, it's good to know in case anyone else asks