The official Ladle Server stress testing thread.

[compguygene]

We just played an 8v8 in ID MegaFortress Florida. The server held up fine! I will be listing it for the Ladle.

[Aiphaton]

did you add all servers on the challenge board yet?

[compguygene]

not yet.

Also, although the Florida server appeared to be fine, I was dissatisfied with the performance for some Euros and some Americans. Also, the ping was really not as stable as I prefer.

So, I got a 2 day free trial on a server in Chicago. Initial testing has shown it to be the most ping stable server I have ever hosted. Also, for Euros the ping is only 10-15ms worse than New York or New Jersey, but it is a much better ping for North Eastern and Western Americans than the Florida server ever was. 3B had a ping of ~230, but found the actual performance of the server to be almost entirely slide free and very ping stable. I will report back once I have gotten some more real testing with at least 16 players in the server.

I will be listing the servers that I am hosting on the wiki after the DNS records have fully updated and the servers are fully in place. I don't want to list a single server on the wiki, unless I have personally tested it well enough to know that it can be used in the semi's or the finals.

[Aiphaton]

ah ok sounds good

nice work comp btw

[compguygene]

Thanks, as a former IT guy, its fun to play IT for a hobby.

[compguygene]

I just listed an Immortal Dynasty Germany Ladle server and an Immortal Dynasty Chicago Ladle server. Both have been tested on at least 3 different occasions with 8v8-9v9 via the ID MegaFortress Germany and ID MegaFortress Chicago servers. Both servers have held up very well with a mix of European and American players. Both servers are hosted on 1gbit (1000mbit) connections. The Chicago server has had the most stable pings of any server I have ever owned. When 3b was playing there with a 230 ping, he found the server to be quite playable, as the ping was very stable. This is probably because the network provider for the hosting company is Internap, which bills itself as having the "Porche" of network connections.
Both servers should handle the Semi-finals and beyond.