Wizard’s Den Infrastructure
This is a reference for how the official Wizard’s Den game server infrastructure works. It may help you make educated decisions about hardware required or how to set up your infrastructure. This is not an endorsement of any technique or provider, it’s just what we use.
Hardware
If I don’t list something like network bandwidth it’s cuz I’m too lazy to check. You’re not gonna run out, don’t worry.
Centcomm
Centcomm is our central server that hosts both the central SS14 infrastructure like authentication, aswell as Wizard’s Den infrastructure like the game database, wiki, forum, etc… It is hosted in US East.
Specs:
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
- RAM: 16 GB
- SSD: 256 GB
- HDD: 2 TB
- Network: 150 TB bandwidth, gigabit
This serves all CDN downloads and it comes up to less than 2 TB/month bandwidth.
Lizard
Hosts Wizard’s Den Lizard and Wizard’s Den Salamander in US West.
Specs:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
- RAM: 16 GB
- SSD: 256 GB
- Network: 150 TB bandwidth, gigabit
This is our most loaded server, and it comes out to 5 TB/month bandwidth max.
Spider
Home server of PJB, so shared with some non-SS14 infra and other cruft (somebody please play Xonotic with me). Hosted in Belgium.
Specs (it’s just an old PC):
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz
- RAM: 16 GB
- SSD: 1 TB
Miros
Auctioned server rented from Hetzner, hosted in Germany.
- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz
- RAM: 64 GB
- SSD: 512x2 GB (RAID 1)
Centipede
Hosted by Austation in Australia
- CPU: 2 cores of an Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2236 CPU @ 3.40GHz
- RAM: 4 GB
- SSD: 64 GB
Noodle
Noodle acts as a hypervisor and runs two separate systems, Leviathan and OpenDream1. Hosted in Miami.
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
- RAM: 64GB
- SSD: 512 GB
Each VM guest has 6 CPUs and 16 GB RAM assigned.