Private Server - Recomanded Hardware Configuration

Tips to choose a good Dedicated Servers for Counter Strike Private Server Emulator. First you need to create a private Counter Strike servers. To create a private servers you need an emulator program. You sould use the search engines to find good guides how to create Counter Strike private server using emulators.
First, for the server hardware we recomand eather AMD or INTEL proccesor. For good performances, pick a Dual processor. This kind of processors will greatly improve the performance. For biginers, a single processor will be good enough.
The mowst important part for running private emulators is memory. All emulators use SQL services wich consume a lot of the memory. Higher you have, better the server will run. For biginers we recomand atleast 2 GB for maximum stability.
When you choose a hard drive you should know that the best HDD is a SCSI platform. It's allways better to have a second HDD to run your SQL database for better performance. Run the emulator program on drive and SQL database on second drive. For biginers, a 80GB HDD SATA2 will do good, no sense in spending a lot of money if you just started your Counter Strike private server.
The mowst important part when chosing a configuration is to not spend a lot of money at the begining. When your players population get higher you can simply upgrdade from single core to dual CPU, from 2GB to 4 or eaven 8 GB ram. You may want to change your os from 32 to 64 bites. Pick a good second HDD to run your SQL database and learn to optimize it.