Upgrading to Dedi - Questions
Hi everyone, I'm looking to upgrade to a VPS using OVH from our EX Series server we're currently hosting on Apex Hosting, as we've outgrown that hardware (at least ram-wise, and they're trying to charge me 2x-3x more for 8-16 GB more RAM, so I'd rather switch to a VPS as I'm perfectly comfortable setting up and managing my own "bare metal").
As I stated previously, we're currently on an EX Series server with Apex, specs: Ryzen 9 5900X 4.8 GHz (US & EU) | 4 Dedicated vCores | NVMe SSDs | 16GB DDR4 RAM, and we're looking to upgrade to a VPS with OVH, specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - 8c/16t - 3.8GHz/4.7GHz, 128GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz, 2× 960GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID, 250Mbit/s network, unmetered (burst 1Gbit/s).
Some more context as to what we've got going and what we're experiencing with our current host:
We're running DJ2, with entirely pregenned dimensions all around so we aren't getting any worldgen lag, after running profiles it seems most of the lag is just coming from the sheer amount of chunks loaded/players ingame. We've got around 20-30 average players online at once and we're averaging between 10-15 TPS on a brand new server, so I'd expect little to no TPS lag on a fresh server due to nobody having any infrastructure, and I've heard that late-game DJ2 can get laggy even in smaller servers, which we are not.
Based on what I'm seeing from the limited information Apex shows me, we're averaging around 75-90% RAM usage and 3-6% CPU usage, so I think it's more RAM-related than CPU
Can anyone help me determine if the new specs will serve our needs properly and solve our issues? I'm not too familiar with what exactly Minecraft prefers in terms of RAM allocation (obviously there's diminishing returns based off JVM GC), processor configuration (if it prefers higher per-core performance or greater overall thread count), etc.
Thanks!
As I stated previously, we're currently on an EX Series server with Apex, specs: Ryzen 9 5900X 4.8 GHz (US & EU) | 4 Dedicated vCores | NVMe SSDs | 16GB DDR4 RAM, and we're looking to upgrade to a VPS with OVH, specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - 8c/16t - 3.8GHz/4.7GHz, 128GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz, 2× 960GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID, 250Mbit/s network, unmetered (burst 1Gbit/s).
Some more context as to what we've got going and what we're experiencing with our current host:
We're running DJ2, with entirely pregenned dimensions all around so we aren't getting any worldgen lag, after running profiles it seems most of the lag is just coming from the sheer amount of chunks loaded/players ingame. We've got around 20-30 average players online at once and we're averaging between 10-15 TPS on a brand new server, so I'd expect little to no TPS lag on a fresh server due to nobody having any infrastructure, and I've heard that late-game DJ2 can get laggy even in smaller servers, which we are not.
Based on what I'm seeing from the limited information Apex shows me, we're averaging around 75-90% RAM usage and 3-6% CPU usage, so I think it's more RAM-related than CPU
Can anyone help me determine if the new specs will serve our needs properly and solve our issues? I'm not too familiar with what exactly Minecraft prefers in terms of RAM allocation (obviously there's diminishing returns based off JVM GC), processor configuration (if it prefers higher per-core performance or greater overall thread count), etc.
Thanks!
