26.03.2017, 07:53
1. Yes, absolutely, a VPS is your best bet. You'll be able to choose how many player slots you have for a fraction of the price it would cost via a hosting service.
2. OVH is great, Linodes are nice too.
3. 512 MB of RAM in theory will be enough for most scripts, but 1GB would be pretty safe if it's within your budget, especially if you wish to run a website for your server on that VPS. 5GB of storage is pushing it, i mean, in reality as far as a samp server is concerned, odds are you won't be using many gigs of storage, but I'd opt in for around 20 gigs to give you room for anything else you want to do. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what OpenVZ is or what it is used for. I assume it's a control panel to help you navigate your VPS. I don't see any harm in it, but I'd try and learn how to use BASH.
4. Don't use a gameserver service. It's overall a massively overpriced way of doing things. You can do SO much more with a VPS.
5. The cheapest Linode is 5 dollars I believe. I think OVH has one for 3.5 dollars. (These prices are US Dollars FYI). This is much cheaper than most GameServer hosts will be for the capability you'll be getting.
6. I think Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a trial of their services which allows you to deploy VPS instances with like 200 dollars of credit. I would suggest that you simply up the 5 dollars it'll cost you to get a VPS from OVH or Linode and give it a try.
2. OVH is great, Linodes are nice too.
3. 512 MB of RAM in theory will be enough for most scripts, but 1GB would be pretty safe if it's within your budget, especially if you wish to run a website for your server on that VPS. 5GB of storage is pushing it, i mean, in reality as far as a samp server is concerned, odds are you won't be using many gigs of storage, but I'd opt in for around 20 gigs to give you room for anything else you want to do. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what OpenVZ is or what it is used for. I assume it's a control panel to help you navigate your VPS. I don't see any harm in it, but I'd try and learn how to use BASH.
4. Don't use a gameserver service. It's overall a massively overpriced way of doing things. You can do SO much more with a VPS.
5. The cheapest Linode is 5 dollars I believe. I think OVH has one for 3.5 dollars. (These prices are US Dollars FYI). This is much cheaper than most GameServer hosts will be for the capability you'll be getting.
6. I think Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a trial of their services which allows you to deploy VPS instances with like 200 dollars of credit. I would suggest that you simply up the 5 dollars it'll cost you to get a VPS from OVH or Linode and give it a try.