What do I do?

[Adam]

Hi,

I currently have 5 CS:S game servers rented through nfo and I am still very new to this stuff so please bare with me.
I have 3 pub servers and then with 2 of those pubs I rented the private 12 slot servers also. Performance and everything has been fantastic and I have nothing but praise to this company and the support folks that have answered numerous inquiries when I have no idea what to do so thank you.

Browsing this site and a few people in game have mentioned the VDS/VPS? servers as something to look into also so I'm looking at what you offer and the most expensive/biggest VDS you offer is Eight core: Raw horsepower for numerous servers or applications.
Eight full, dedicated HT CPU cores (Nehalem or better)
8192 MB of RAM
800 GB of hard drive space
8000 GB of InterNAP bandwidth transfer
is cheaper also than what I pay for now. I'm not complaining about your prices but I'm wondering if it would be wise to buy the VDS instead now? Our group is mainly CS:S players and we are small new community anyways but would we be able to put maybe 10, 20 slot servers on this? Also we have the website you offer to us or the hosting I guess I should say do we use this server for that also? It says if I order a "managed" VDS I wont have direct access (I dont know what I would need this for anyways) but I will still have the control panel like I do now for my servers? With my limited knowledge should I stick with what I have now or should I get the VDS? If you install the game files and I have ftp access I dont see why I would have any problem with running the VDS either? I also have a member who is pretty techy guy so maybe he could help.

I dont want a decrease in performance I live on west coast and have players in east coast/central and west I moved all my servers to Dallas from LA because some people had too high ping in LA from the east coast and now in dallas both coasts have in the 40-60 ping range which is fine. So would I see a drop in performance from what I have now? Will my ping be worse and fps be worse registry worse remember these are pubs and 2 privates (we aren't professionals or anything) or would we still be good to go? How do I upgrade to the fastest possible options you offer? I do not want any performance decrease so please advise on what I should do.

THanks for your time.

[Edge100x]

I'm not complaining about your prices but I'm wondering if it would be wise to buy the VDS instead now?

Everyone's circumstances are different and this is something that there isn't really a clear answer to.

If you've had your CS:S servers for a long time, make sure to also see if refinancing would lower your prices, and factor that in. We started a sale on game servers last month.

Our group is mainly CS:S players and we are small new community anyways but would we be able to put maybe 10, 20 slot servers on this?

You should have no problem putting a server or two per core on the VDS if they are 20-slot servers.

Also we have the website you offer to us or the hosting I guess I should say do we use this server for that also?

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you use our free webhosting with a game server, I would recommend continuing to use our webhosting if switching to a VDS, since it ties in nicely to our managed game servers. You could either do this as an add-on to the VDS or as a separate order.

With my limited knowledge should I stick with what I have now or should I get the VDS? If you install the game files and I have ftp access I dont see why I would have any problem with running the VDS either?

It is your call. A managed VDS will not be harder to run than regular game servers.

I dont want a decrease in performance I live on west coast and have players in east coast/central and west I moved all my servers to Dallas from LA because some people had too high ping in LA from the east coast and now in dallas both coasts have in the 40-60 ping range which is fine. So would I see a drop in performance from what I have now? Will my ping be worse and fps be worse registry worse remember these are pubs and 2 privates (we aren't professionals or anything) or would we still be good to go?

You would see similar performance on a VDS as long as you keep the CPU and memory usage low -- unless you have extremely intensive servers.

How do I upgrade to the fastest possible options you offer?

The VDS option that you mentioned before is our highest-end one.