I moved minecraft.novylen.net to a RAM disk yesterday. Performance issues have been resolved entirely. In a stress-test today, I had 30 users logged in without a hiccup. It’s pretty easy to see how a server with more memory and better CPU could support 60-100 users.<\/p>\n
Currently I am limited only by bandwidth: the package we have right now is $150\/mo for 130KiB\/sec upload, but latency issues when the upload is as little as 75% saturated (sigh, as much as 3 seconds ping time to fraser.sfu.ca) mean that the ISP has temporarily put us on the $300\/mo package with 750KiB\/sec upload, which is nice. With 30 users, the server did a pretty steady 300KiB\/sec up. So we could easily support more users if I could find a way to partially fund it.<\/p>\n
Subscriptions will help, if I can find the right combination of carrot, stick, and price. It doesn’t seem to be the price so much as the concept of paying a subscription, or donating, that people have trouble with. So I’m aiming for $2\/mo, which is pretty comparable to iphone apps. I only support paypal at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I moved minecraft.novylen.net to a RAM disk yesterday. Performance issues have been resolved entirely. In a stress-test today, I had 30 users logged in without a hiccup. It’s pretty easy to see how a server with more memory and better CPU could support 60-100 users. Currently I am limited only by bandwidth: the package we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minecraft.novylen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}