Dedicated Servers and Game Servers: What is the Difference?

bknights · Jan 28, 2017

I checked soyoustart and they are offering both dedicated servers and game servers with same price $42 or $49 /mo. I want to know what are the differences between dedicated servers and game servers? and I can use a game server to host my websites or blogs?

eva2000 · Jan 28, 2017

Main diff is intended purpose of the cpu models/families by intel - gaming = desktop processors with non-ecc memory vs non-gaming = server grade xeon processors with ecc memory.

You can use gaming servers for web sites and blogs. I have an OVH I7 4790K 32GB ram, 2x240GB dedicated for hosting and centmin mod lemp stack testing. Black friday special at $46/month

OVH has a firewall feature on their gaming servers and block dns port 53 by default, something non-gaming don't have or do out of the box.

eva2000 · Jan 28, 2017

Gaming services require high cpu clocks which Core i7 4790K @4.0-4.4Ghz and i7 6700 @4.0-4.2Ghz provide. Server grade Xeons are usually clocked lower around @2.2Ghz to 2.8Ghz.

24x7CSM · Jan 29, 2017

You can use any high spec server as a game server , as eva2000 mentioned it all depends on the purpose. So if you get a high config server you can use to host a heavy website , hosting gaming server , can be used for shared hosting , can be used for VPS hosting ...

AlbaHost · Jan 29, 2017

I think the difference between dedicated and game servers are only to their DDOS protection infrastructure. Game ddos protection its stronger and better instead of their standard ddos protection.

bknights · Dec 11, 2017

eva2000 said:
Gaming services require high cpu clocks which Core i7 4790K @4.0-4.4Ghz and i7 6700 @4.0-4.2Ghz provide. Server grade Xeons are usually clocked lower around @2.2Ghz to 2.8Ghz.

24x7CSM said:
You can use any high spec server as a game server , as eva2000 mentioned it all depends on the purpose. So if you get a high config server you can use to host a heavy website , hosting gaming server , can be used for shared hosting , can be used for VPS hosting ...

If gaming servers require high cpu clocks then it will help my website load faster normal dedicated server? I am confusing about this.

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