@thelog 557088 wrote:
Ahaha, So I assume you have to rent dedicated servers and cannot host your own just like that.
Dude sounded pissed.
you can get the server from most hosting companies, but that level of resources and bandwidth are not cheap (although the 45 number is players, not CPUs/cores!) and is nearly as much as used for this whole site (both forums + radio stations) and more than VFR EPC3 (my Dutch Airtime server), or the biggest server in use at my work.
100 hours of work to get any kind of server working well in production use is an accurate estimate, irrespective of whether or not it runs open source or proprietary software. About 3 days solid work from when it put in the rack (or provided by the hosting company) to install the software and check for local issues and then more to deal with bugs and problems as and when they happen (often at inconvenient times).
When I thought it was 45 CPUs (or cores, even with a quad core that would be half a big rack unit filled up with servers, which would require 32A 230V power feed (same as a electric cooker in a family house) that gave me a scare, the concept that folk were using that sort of kit just for computer games in the same week a large bit of the public sector in one of the worlds biggest nations (which has the atom bomb) is shut down due to political arguing and lack of money, I genuinely did fear for the future of humanity in a way I had not done since around 1982 :crazy:
