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Counter-Strike 1.6 still lives: my $3 host

VPS Hosting by kenji3 24 replies 2.1K views
olespete

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Trust No One

#11

kenji3 said:
Latency to Tokyo is 45ms

I ran mtr from my Vultr Tokyo instance to your IP range. 48ms average, 2ms jitter. Not bad for budget transit. The Singapore-Tokyo path goes via NTT, which is consistent. Your 45ms claim holds up, but I'd still want to see under load with 12 players active.

airgapped, encrypted, faraday'd, still worried
FL

Member

#12

kenji3 said:
The hlds_linux process uses 180MB

Steampipe build 7561? Or legacy 8308? The steampipe one leaks memory over long uptimes, known issue since 2013. I run 8308 on Debian 7 in a chroot because of this. Kernel 3.2.0, no systemd. Old but stable.

kenji3

Member OP

#13

olespete said:
48ms average, 2ms jitter

Thank you for checking. Under load with 12 players I see 51ms to Tokyo, 94ms to Sydney. The jitter stays low, which matters more than absolute latency for GoldSrc. I should have mentioned that in the first post.
flyolly said:
Steampipe build 7561?

Steampipe, unfortunately. I restart it weekly via cron. Not elegant, but 180MB climbs to 240MB by day six. On 256MB that's dangerous.

conbini > datacenter snacks
jihoonred86

Member

Seoul

#14

kenji3 said:
51ms to Tokyo, 94ms to Sydney

I benchmarked HostHatch Singapore from my office in Gangnam. 62ms to Tokyo, 103ms to Sydney. Your numbers are better than mine, probably because you're on their newer Ryzen nodes? I checked their site, they don't specify. My traceroute hits 103.253.144.1 which looks like HostHatch own ASN. Not bad routing.

armstrongvds

Member

ARM Enjoyer

#15

Carl said:
A 5950X would run circles around it

Sure, but at what power? My Ampere Altra Max at home pulls 120W for 128 cores. Per-core efficiency destroys x86. The HLDS alignment issue is real though, I spent a weekend in gdb. Box86 helps but the syscall translation overhead kills latency for real-time games. CS:GO on Source 2 will be different story.
jihoonred86 said:
My traceroute hits 103.253.144.1

That's HostHatch indeed. AS63419.

one small ping for man...
tallinnying

Member

Night Shift

1 #16

kenji3 said:
Restart it weekly via cron

I do the same with my TeamSpeak 3 on a 128MB BuyVM slice in Luxembourg. Memory leaks are the bane of cheap hosting. At least hlds_linux doesn't need Java.

builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon
tifiucem

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🇹🇷 cheap vps hunter

#17

HostHatch $3 in Singapore? I pay $2.50 for RackNerd but only USA locations. For Turkey players USA latency is 150ms+. I check HostHatch, they have no Istanbul datacenter. Closest is maybe Frankfurt? Anyone know EU to Turkey routing? I need cheap CS server for local community.

çok ucuz, çok hızlı
lookuppierre

Member

#18

tifiucem said:
Closest is maybe Frankfurt?

From Lyon I get 45ms to Frankfurt, 65ms to Istanbul via Frankfurt-Bucharest. Not terrible. But for your Turkish players, a Frankfurt VPS would be 40-50ms better than USA. HostHatch has no Frankfurt though. Leaseweb has Amsterdam and Frankfurt, but their price start at 30 EUR. Too much for hobby. I use Hetzner for my association, 4.51 EUR for CX11 in Falkenstein.

prix fixe infrastructure: €5/mo
quinnbizz

Member

#19

kenji3 said:
51ms to Tokyo

From Wellington I get 142ms to Singapore, 189ms to Tokyo. The Pacific cable situation is what it is. Your server is unplayable for me, but that's not your fault. I run a local CS 1.6 server on an old i5 in my garage for the three of us who still play.

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AD

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#20

Chen said:
CloudCone now but their routing from los angeles cmi

From Mumbai, CloudCone LA is 230ms. Completely unusable for FPS. I use HostHatch Singapore too, 72ms from here. The $3 plan was out of stock last month, I had to take the $5 one with 512MB. Running two hlds instances now, one for CS 1.6 and one for Condition Zero. Both stable. I got it from https://hosthatch.com.

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