Hardware :: Counter Strik Server Motherboard Recommendations?
Jan 24, 2011
I'm building my first server to use as a Counter Strike: Source game server that I'm hoping will host 24-48 players. I plan on using Ubuntu Server 10.04 64bit. I also plan on using it as my own personal file server. I'm looking at building it with the Intel Xeon E3110 3.0GHz, 1333MHz, Wolfdale, dual-core processor (LGA 775) as it's cheap and from what I've read, should fit my needs.
Initially I want to build the server with a single SSD drive just to get the system up and running and then later I wanna add another SSD to mirror the original with RAID 1. Then I want to add 4 large capacity SATA drives in a RAID 10 for storage (after I've gotten everything else set up).
Can anyone recommend a motherboard that will fit this setup? I'd really like a motherboard that has built in VGA graphics so I don't have to buy a graphics card just for the install (as I plan on using SSH after I get it up and running). I don't plan on using ECC memory as I need the memory to be fast (for the game server). Because this is my first build, I'm very new to installing/setting up RAID. Do any motherboards exist that have a built-in hardware RAID that will work with Ubuntu and let me do raid 1 and raid 10? Or will I have to get a SATA RAID card? Will hardware based RAID allow me to build a raid 1 array with a SSD drive that's already in use (my system drive) without having to reformat/re-partition?
I'm going to be building a new development workstation for myself. It's going to be used primarily for web development (Perl, C++, Apache, MySQL), everyday browsing, and as a MySQL slave to a server which runs a moderately busy community website (slaves generally have to be fairly powerful to keep up, since they run as a single threaded process). I am not a gamer. I'd like to run Debian stable (currently that's Lenny, 2.6.26) because it's what's on my production server, and my dev workstation is a testing environment so I like to have the same version of the OS as the server if possible. I'll also be occasionally running Windows 7 on this machine, either in a dual boot or VM, mostly just for when I have to test something on the site against IE.
I've been liking the look of the AMD Phenom II X4 processors, though I'm not sure that I really need four cores - but in my experience you should get slightly above what you think you need now, because otherwise whatever you get will inevitably look pretty anemic in a couple of years. Someone mentioned that if I get 4 cores then I can dedicate two cores to Windows in a VM, which makes sense. I'm thinking 8GB of RAM, seems like a good amount for allowing plenty of room for running VMs of Windows 7.
The motherboard choice is difficult. The ASUS M4A78T-E is a possibility, but it's had issues in the past with memory speeds. Besides, I see the newer standards coming out, like the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO, which has SATA 6GB/s and USB3.0 - well, first of all will it work with Debian Lenny, and second of all am I going to see any actual benefit from those new SATA and USB speeds in the near future? I don't use SSD, just standard SATA drives.
Oh, I should also mention that I'm trying to build as silent a system as possible - so that means as few fans as possible. So I'm looking at motherboards currently with integrated graphics, which (I assume) means no extra fans.
Any recommendations on the motherboard choice? Something nice and fast, preferably with the newer SATA and USB specs, but works with Debian Lenny. Is that unreasonable? If so, what do people recommend that is rock solid with Lenny, with regular SATA 3GB/s and USB 2.0?
I setup the server just find with Metamod and amxmodx, everything works other than it won't let my server connect outside of my lan. I forwarded every single necessary port for HLDS and steam on my DIR-655 xtreme n-gigabit router, most up to date firmware as well.
I've tried numerous ways of of starting up my server
Here is what happens:
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Heres another, I try connecting with just a port and it runs but its only on local, in the servers list the ip is 192.168.0.192:
I can't connect to my "counter-strike Source server". I know it is running, as I run it thru SCREEN and no connections seems to reach it. I use a small modified script I found some where on this site and it is like this;I do believe the problem is in my use of ipatbles and UDp but haven't found any use of the command that has worked.
Did anyone heard about or can suggest mabe a postfix serverside solution in order to insert a counter number into the subject line before the message is sent? I mean something similar with helpdesk tickets, because I would like to create the possibility for the senders, to make further refference about a speciffic message using it's counter number provided by postfix server.
I have agreed to set up a server to run an existing website from a hosted solution. This is no problem I have setup Centos 5.5 64 bit, all running OK. The existing site is single directory HTML with a very small amount of Java script.The user has no technical knowledge and would like to be able to go in and modify their site, sadly vim is not an option
Has anyone got any suggestion of single or multi site CMS solutions that are easy to set up and use. I would also need to import the existing site. I do not have weeks to spend learning a new product at the moment though I would love to do so.
I just installed 5.4 on a home machine and I would like to get a UPS that will auto shutdown the server if the power goes out. Here an inexpensive tripplite from Costco. [URL] I only need it to shut down the 1 centos 5.4 machine if the power fails. Tripplite has linux software now that will shutdown machines. [URL]
I'm looking for an application that can run remotely to periodically check a webserver to ensure that it's delivering pages. I can't use one of the free web-based services because the servers I'm monitoring are closed to the outside internet. I have internal client machines I'd like to install the monitoring tool onto that can check specific URLs in both HTTP and HTTPS. Then email a notification when something stops responding. It would be nice to have a tool that is platform agnostic (written in perl, python, etc.) so I could have flexibility in what type of client machine I use for the monitoring.
I'm setting up an email server for a small office and need a few specific features. I was hoping that someone might give me a few recommendations to meet the following criteria:
IMAP support anti-spam some sort of webmail client - doesn't have to be fancy, but it needs a search function graphical administration panel The last one is so that other people in the office, who aren't necessarily familiar with linux, can do some basic administration. Adding mail boxes, etc.
I've seen the guide for Postfix/Dovecot. That's great but doesn't cover everything that I need. I've also seen Zimbra, which... Well I don't know, that may work, but the open source version has some features removed and that makes me leery. Have people had good experiences with open-source Zimbra? Is it sufficiently feature-complete?
Edit: Well, looks like I just needed to do a little more searching. This seems to cover most everything:[URL]... I'd still like to hear what people have to say about Zimbra though.
I presently have an Ubuntu server 64-bit running VMware Server 2.0 in a test lab. The server was created using the default partitioning method during the installation. So I have what I think is just one huge 300GB partition along with what I hear is a uselessly large swap partition.
I keep reading that theres an advantage to creating dedicated partitions, especially for the the VM datastore.
If the advantages are true then I would like to re-partition the drive.
What partitions should I define and how big should the be?
I have found it difficult to research a wireless print server which will be supported on Linux. I use Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10.04 (also Windows 7 64 bit, Vista, and MACOS Snow Leopard). Everyone in my household using uses a different OS, so it is all the more difficult to ensure interoperability across so many OSs. Where can I find a definitive, authoritative and complete list of supported print servers? Also, I want to keep things simple as possible. This is an important criterion for my choice of wireless print server.
GUI mediated setup/install is much preferred over complex configuration files and command line. I know of CUPs, but I don't know if CUPs will regulate the wireless print server and what's involved. The print server is to enable sharing of Brother HL-4050CDN printer. I'm seriously considering F5L049au (see Belkin : Home Base). But the customer support people tell me it does not support Linux. But this is true of the majority of the print server market. Must support N network standard, the printer above, be wireless, and be Linux compatible.
I'm building a new file/media server for my household to use, and would like to hear the experiences of others, and suggestions, or links to appropriate howto's. I'll be using two (2) 250 GB Western Digital RE4 drives mirrored via mdadm RAID 1 for the Operating System. The storage area will be handled by four (4) 500 GB Western Digital RE4 drives in a RAID 5 array, managed by an Areca 1210 controller.
What I'd like to configure is a basic Samba file server, on which we have individual user folders, and a shared drive. As well, I'd like to add the ability to manage our movie collection so it can be accessed by the Boxee Box attached to the television. Twonky looks promising (and I don't mind paying the $19.95 for something that works well). However, as this is new to me, there may be other solutions out there that are better, and easier to administer. Moving forward, I'd like to explore the feasibility of configuring LDAP on this machine to authenticate users on the network (perhaps even integrate the mail server somehow), and the remote users (only two) who VPN into the network using the pfSense firewall appliance. There are no Windows servers, so Active Directory is not a factor.
We have 6 Dell r610 running CentOS 5.4 with stock kernels, with a couple of Broadcom NetExtreme II 5706c 1GB NICs in them. The NICs are flaking under load, and we'd like to try some alternative NICs (in additional to playing around with driver and firmware upgrades to see if the Netextreme II's can be made stable). Assuming we do not want to do bonding or TOE and just want basic solid transport, can anyone recommend a server NIC that is rock solid with CentOS 5.4? The goal is stable as source-able, we just want to get some baseline functionality up and running while we fight the broadcom issues.
I have set up a server box running Ubuntu 10.04 Server 64-bit with Squeezeboxserver, ftp, apache and all the things that I need.I am running it on a Asus P5Q pro with 9 harddrives attached.I have set up 6 1tb disks that run a raid6 array but I am wondering what would happen if the motherboard would fail me.Is it possible to just replace the motherboard with a newer one and would then the raid6 array still be intact?
I used to run a raid10 with the 6 disks on a Windows 7 machine with a software raid card but the card broke and I replaced it with a new one but the array could would not work so I had to forget all my data and this is what brought me to using a Ubuntu server as OS and running the raid array on the motherboard sata instead.Also, is it possible to make an exact copy of the boot drive/partition and easily replace that is the boot hard drive would go faulty? I have heard about the dd command and I feel it would be nice to know that I'm not totally screwed if the boot drive fails.
I have run into a problem with eSATA that so far I have been unable to find a solution to it on any of the Ubuntu or Intel forums. My set up is as below:
My understanding is that Ubuntu is suppose to detect the eSATA drive without any extra drivers, my experience is it does not - I am missing something or is anyone else having/had this problem and been able to get eSATA to work?
page [URL] but I don't believe this applies to Ubuntu.
I have an IBM xSeries server with a 120gb IDE hd. I would like to use it for mail and web server at work. Obviously, I need a bigger HD. The only thing is I can't find a big (1TB) IDE HD all I can find are SATAs and this server's motherboard does not support SATA drives.
I install centos 5.4 on my intel S5000vsa motherboard, and with embeded RAID1. I successfully config RAID1 in BIOS, and then I set to install centos use linux dd mode. And also successfully loaded raid drivers. In centos partition step, one disk appears. However, when centos installed and entered the system, strange result in fdisk -l.
I recently set up a Samba Server on a new Gigabyte (Desktop) Motherboard with support for SATA 3.0. I used a new 1T SATA 3.0 (6Gb) Hard Drive. The system is performing poorly, seems to have problems both opening and closing files (*.dbf).
Also will hold a file as open periodically (may be a Samba Issue).
Does the O/S have to support this standard, or is it a function of the Hardware...?
i have fedora11 in my system i have tried to install to counter strike in my system.and it get proper way. but when i start it , it starts well but it gets freezes after Parsing Game resources Bar(status ) bar during loading and a error generated that my gecko installer wants to install html parser now what to do?
In the older version of firefox the tabs are right above the browser window. In this version there in the wrong place. It's counter-intuitive to not have it right above the browser window. How do put it back? Else, how do install the older firefox.
I have a linux router box with ubuntu which routes internet for several people. There is no extra traffic shaping, so everybody can get the whole bandwidth when its free. What I would like to have is a real time traffic counter per ip, just like a program called "iptraf" but on a per-ip basis. Iptraf can only count on a per-connection basis and thus cannot display a bandwidth that a certain ip has taken (because a single ip can start several onnections). So a console program with text interface like iptraf would be perfect - does anybody know about such a program? After some googling I came to the conclusion that such a program does not exist (which must be wrong - i think that per-ip real time traffic flow information is the first thing every router owner would like to know).
i am just starting a ubuntu server and i am trying to learn i have a script that runs ever hour and i would like to put a counter (count=count+) in a line if it is true and also if the counter reaches its value of 10 to reset the counter to zero
I am executing the following script using 'awk -f process.awk out' where 'out' is the input file which consists of 5000 sequences. Each time it takes one sequence, run the below program by creating a directory, run the mfold command within that directory, running another shell script 'final5' and redirect the output to a file from final5 shell. After that the directory is deleted, taking second sequence from 'out' and repeating this process. It is working well upto 1020 directories. From 1021 it is giving error. After executing this 1000 times, can we reset the counter to 1 in such a way it takes it as directory 1 and start this process for 1001 to 2000 sequences. Similarly I have to reset the counter to five times because input file contains 5000 seqeunces.
First of all, This is my first post in the forums, so - Hello all, nice to meet you. This is my first time with Ubuntu, and so, ran into a lot of problems. This problem is in installing counter strike. I know that there are a lot of guides and FAQ's online that give you lots of help on that, but I ran into an unique problem.
I installed the non-steam version of Counter Strike ( using wine ofcourse ). It created a shortcut in my desktop and I launch the counter strike game. I enter my cd key and then I select a profile, select a map, select the bots and then, it starts loading. After that, it stops half way and then it quits.
Whenever I add a rule to iptables, all of the policy counters reset. The counters for each individual rule remain intact, however, the main counter resets. Here's what I mean:
Code: [root] ~ # iptables -vL Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 65M packets, 83G bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 50M packets, 30G bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination .....
As stated in previous posts I've not long come back to linux, I was wondering if anyone can suggest a good lightweight download usage meter to help track how much of my monthly allowance I have used etc.Under windows I was using one that logged into the Bigpond site and would display usage, how much was left and how many days were left till the end of the billing period.I've done some searching but so far can't find anything similar for linux.
I'm converting pages in PDF to images in the following way: convert file.pdf out.jpg In this way I get in the current dir files with these names: out-0.jpg (first page), out-1.jpg (second page), out-2.jpg (third page) and so on. You can see the increment counter begins at 0. Can it be done to begin at 1, so I would get these names: out-1.jpg (first page), out-2.jpg (second page), out-3.jpg (third page)?
i'm running 11.2 kde 4.3. i'm having issues with both smplayer and vlc. first, when i play an audio cd through smplayer, it pauses every 14-15 second. by pause i mean that the sound and time counter stops, and i actually hear the disc drive make a sound, the *typical disc-read sound. i tried a few discs, in case it was a specific cd; same thing for all. i also looked through the preferences to see if there was a setting that addressed it; nothing i see seems to address the issue.
playing the same cds in kscd works fine. but kscd really sucks....excuse me, it really really sucks. with vlc, whenever i start vlc, it will appear in my taskbar, but there is no other sign of its existence besides this. no system tray icon, no gui or any other sign of its presence besides the taskbar.
