Gaming Server

I talked to my host again, and he gave us two different oppertunities. Either, we could get one game hosted for free if we decided to add a top banner to the forums. The other thing we could do would be to pay him $20/month for hosting 2+ games.

In both cases, we could get more games hosted depending on the amount of "resources" they use, so in short, we could host a lot of low bandwidth games if we wanted to, or 1 huge game (2 if we paid). Personally, I think we should pay for the server so we won't have a banner, but then again, it's just a banner, and we get a server for free.

Oh, and by the way, it's a XP 1700 with 1024 ram connected to AT&T with an OC-48 connection. The reason why it will be so cheap is because the server isn't dedicated, 2 other people use it too, even though they're not exactly resource hogs if I put it like that

personally..i thnk we should host RUGUE SPEAR...but that is my choice

jus like host a tight game, like rouge spear or some shit and have someone upload it to some ftp and reg here and post a link to it, so every can get it, and we arnt to blame 0.0

I don't like rouge spear
I don't know too much about hosting it either

How about a good rpg?

Ok, listen. BNETD is a 100%, then something else. I think that 20 a mo would be better than a banner... But whatever

Originally posted by Xenn How about a good rpg?

I agree with Xenn on this one.

UO!

If we pay $20/month, we could host BNETD or UT for instance. If it doesn't take much resources, we could add more games.
Those were just examples, but remember that it has to run on a *NIX based system (unix, linux etc).

Bnetd is free so why pay more to use it?

Originally posted by Xenn Bnetd is free so why pay more to use it?

The software used to run this website is free. Why does he pay for hosting?


He is paying for bandwidth and resources on a server that will be up all the time.

im also w/ xenn, should host DAoC or something like that. either that or a first person shooter like counterstrike or UT.

Originally posted by napalm The software used to run this website is free. Why does he pay for hosting? He is paying for bandwidth and resources on a server that will be up all the time.

yeah I know I was wrong but I was too lazy to delete my post :]

DARK AGE OF CAMELOT WOULD ROCK CHRUSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so do we pay or use a banner?
I'm not too willing to pay the fee myself since I don't really play any online games, but we'll see.

How big a banner, can we stick it in the top right corner?

I don't know yet. Maybe we should start a poll and ask people if they would quit the forums if we added a banner.
Actually, we should be able to get a banner rotation system, and maybe get a few sponsors too

I will not quit if you put banners

Originally posted by Xenn How big a banner, can we stick it in the top right corner?

it dont have to be very big... just important that ppl click on them

pay for it; banner suk
but i will not leave if there is one

btw host cs