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If it is worth renting a game server or not depends on your situation:
if you have a decent spare computer laying around, then no, I don't think renting is the way to go.
Not when for about the same price you can go with a co-location service
I have a pentium 4, 3.0 Ghz w/1 Gb ram server.
I am paying $50 a month for a colocation service (colocation is where you take/send your computer to a datacenter, were you are paying for bandwidth).
That $50 is giving me:
1. A 100 Mb/s connection with 1000Gb/month bandwidth
2. Absolute control over my game server - I can do what ever I want to it.
Currently it is configured as:
1. Running a 50 man BHD server
2. Running a DFX server
3. Running a 400 Man TS server
4. Running a 8 man ventrilo server
5 (hopefully) running a second BHD server.
And I can change it how ever I want - We decide to dump BHD I can throw a BF2 server up on it
Your not going to be able to do that with renting a server from a company - you will be locked into what ever they are offering, and pay more if you want to host mulitple servers.
of course, I understand that not every one is going to have a computer that can handle all of that... But if you do (or can afford to build your own), I would definatly look into co-location over renting a server.
As for specs:
yes, CPU and memory are key, But don't cut your self short on disk space. better in my opinion to have to much, then to have a drive running @ 90% full...
IcI
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