Server hardware scaling

[Chuck850]

I run a small private server and was thinking of making it available to more users. I'm curious as to what processor and memory combo's people are running and what your max player load and ms response time is during that time so I can get a sense of what hardware is required for larger servers.

My assumption is that Freelancer is a single threaded app, so a mutilcore system isn't going to by a whole lot performance wise, and that clock speed is really going to be the key component when comparing to the number of users the server can support.

My current server is actually just a small laptop I've been using as a testbed, that's a Pentium 4-M at 1.6GHz with 2GB of RAM. It hosts at most 6 players at once, and never gets over 10ms, but I don't want to open it up to more people only to realize the hardware isn't adequate.

Any feedback from other operators would be appreciated on your hardware specs (processor and CPU), and max load and ms response time.

Thanks!

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