# Socket Server Load

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/socket-server-load/289900
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [June 6, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/socket-server-load/289900 "2009-06-06T17:30:22Z")
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### Author: ![LeoKent](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/leokent/32/3658_2.png) [@LeoKent](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/LeoKent)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/socket-server-load/289900/1 "2009-06-06T17:30:22Z")

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I am looking to write a socket server in PHP based on the one here on Kirupa to be used as a game server. I was just wondering if anyone knows what sort of resources such a server might use. I am wondering about memory use per client and CPU usage per client. I have a 192MB VPS, can anoyone hazard a guess as to how many concurrent connections I might be able to have without overloading my server?

I am aware that it would probably be a more efficient idea to write the server in C but I also stand a greater chance of writing a vunerable server that way.

Thanks,  
Leo Kent