Yes, but there's a difference between a quality cost and overcharging for the same service, and over-hyping something that doesn't even matter (anything more than 1000 fps serverside, hell, even 500 fps is pushing it.) To be honest a lot of times the smaller companies will give you better support if you pay a few dollars extra for those services over a large business. For instance, Branzone. They're not huge right now, but they're not tiny either. You pay a couple extra bucks for the same thing, I get a response to tickets usually within 10-20 minutes, but you also don't overpay for the same service. Is any host perfect? No. Is it worth it, in my opinion, to pay the extra bucks for a NFO server? Absolutely not. For the same price as a dedicated server (where I can run 3-4 of the same server mentioned) it costs the same as 1.8 servers through NFO. While I do understand the support aspect, game servers are *really* not that hard to run yourself. I taught myself how to do it with a bit of google searching and toiling. That was over three years ago, I'm still learning, and I did actually start off with a NFO server way back in the day because everyone thought they were awesome. Ended up cancelling when I found the same quality server for half the price per month, though, and eventually went on to create my own servers myself because I was limited too much by providers.
I don't mean to make this a fight, but seriously, it's overrated. Some things you do have to learn first-hand though. :) -- Cc2iscooL Head Admin/Owner http://www.cc2iscool.com On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:32 AM, John <[email protected]>wrote: > Cc2, quality servers have real costs associated with them, and you will > find > higher prices at higher-quality GSPs than at others. It actually does cost > more to run reliable servers using high-end bandwidth, on underloaded > machines, with excellent support, etc. > > L4D servers also cost less than the range you gave, so what you said was a > bit misleading.. > > -John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cc2iscooL" <[email protected]> > To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 10:00 PM > Subject: Re: [hlds] Anyone use Sigma servers > > > Only $3.50-5.00 a slot! > > -- > Cc2iscooL > Head Admin/Owner > http://www.cc2iscool.com > > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Matt Stanton < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Never really heard of them, but if you're looking for a Chicago-based > > server, nuclearfallout has always done us right. > > > > Steve Kovack Sr. wrote: > > > Just wondering if anyone uses or has used this provider, and their > > opinions on them. > > > > > > http://www.sigmaservers.com/ > > > > > > I have a club member who wants to start a L4D server and seems to want > > > to > > use them. Thanks for any input. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. > > > > > > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
