Article View: alt.games.unreal.tournament
Article #191605Re: commercial servers
From: Flash
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:34
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:34
18 lines
2454 bytes
2454 bytes
> No kidding, that is cheap; that's almost the cost of electricity to run a > 100watt system 24/7. Their website show $12.45US/mo for (min.) 10 player > public server. I'd never looked into it, always preferred to roll my own, > so to speak. May save myself the trouble if I ever get into UT3 (still > waiting on that Linux client<grin>). Oh hey, there's a 32 player limit. > How am I gonna run my 128-player CTF server w/redeemer arena& nuke death? > Muhoohahahahaaaaaa... Can work out well. With ut99 being so low in resource requirements, the hoster can really pile 'em up on a single machine. I've certainly heard of over 20 ut99's on a single quad core xeon, and it wasn't breaking sweat. Unless you already happen to have a machine hosted somewhere, or a virtual slot, definitely worth a look around as GP says and you have the benefit of not having to faff around too much /and/ you get somebody to shout at when it breaks. F
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<xOGdnXs6U420xNnWnZ2dnUVZ8i2dnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.eclipse.net.uk!news.eclipse.net.uk.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<KlUXm.4800$2A7.3327@newsfe07.iad> <xdJ%m.14195$U5.216719@newsb.telia.net> <RmM%m.183$Ef7.78@newsfe07.iad> <Ul20n.14219$U5.217340@newsb.telia.net> <Kep0n.893$rH7.852@newsfe19.iad> <Jzy0n.596$Ef7.153@newsfe07.iad>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.eclipse.net.uk!news.eclipse.net.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:34:33 -0600 Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:34:32 +0000 From: Flash <NOSPAM@digdilem.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.games.unreal.tournament Subject: Re: commercial servers References: <KlUXm.4800$2A7.3327@newsfe07.iad> <xdJ%m.14195$U5.216719@newsb.telia.net> <RmM%m.183$Ef7.78@newsfe07.iad> <Ul20n.14219$U5.217340@newsb.telia.net> <Kep0n.893$rH7.852@newsfe19.iad> <Jzy0n.596$Ef7.153@newsfe07.iad> In-Reply-To: <Jzy0n.596$Ef7.153@newsfe07.iad> Message-ID: <xOGdnXs6U420xNnWnZ2dnUVZ8i2dnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk> Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.149.45 X-Trace: sv3-JXlzxDq965uSj/DN9WgAltXfE4ADbn1rhiXTVx74Dd8Lo7PseK2jMu77XI5f9EbWSZi8oHbuDKvslWS!6Nkpc4Us8+lNFClHi36FHaGMa+gp+moEySBg5d9i6aK6sDg7KF67WcZhMrfcdrN9/BB3Is9EIIa/!//EhBbXL54yrUL/E/aMU X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2386 X-Original-Bytes: 2322 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit