[larrybolt]

I'd love to hear where you are hosting that server. I currently have a tekkify [1] private server running with some additional mods such as Forestry and currently the world folder is about 700MB. For a while I've used an openvz vps but the load was too high and I pulled it to our local network on an old machine I had laying around. (For those wondering, openvz is a no go for modpacks unless you have a very expensive plan.) The load went from 2 to 5 which is terrible. I've been thinking about getting a dedicated machine at kimsufi [2] as hosting locally in our home network isn't so great really with low upstream speeds. For a vanilla world however (no mods except bukkit) you could run it on a openvz host though. To even lower the load more you could tweak the view-distance or even add a bukkit-plugin which limits the amount of entities that spawn.

[1]: http://tekkify.com/mods [2]: http://www.kimsufi.co.uk

[DougWebb]

I've got a Spider server on Creeperhost, which I use for myself. At the moment I'm running the Direwolf20 pack with an insane amount of automation going on, all chunkloaded in the few chunks around my base. I've gotten to the point where I'm starting to have problems with CPU load, but if I spread my stuff out and turned off things I don't need anymore it'd be fine. (Eg: I don't think I really need more than the 120 million cobblestone I've collected, or the million logs, or 125k+ carrots and potatoes.)

The server is cheap enough, and if I wasn't so nuts it could handle a small number of players easily.