Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-11 Thread Reagan Thomas
On 10/7/2010 10:38 AM, Curtis Olson wrote: I haven't researched this, but I wonder what a fair price would be to rent a dedicated linux server with an unmetered 100mbit connection to the internet? Would that be sufficient to run a good multiplayer server? Curt, I think a single

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-08 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: Side note: Sabin has been waiting for an official mpserver.flightgear.org address since may for the FREE mp server he started in Kansas. Which, being in the USA, could have taken much of the stress from Pigeon's 02. Unfortunately even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Pigeon, Thanks for running a server all these years, it's been a big service to our community! Do you have any bandwidth statistics or estimates that you've collected over the years? What kind of usage per month are we at? As you know, serious bandwidth and dedicated servers start costing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Pigeon, Thanks for running a server all these years, it's been a big service to our community! Do you have any bandwidth statistics or estimates that you've collected over the years?  What kind of usage per month are we at?  As you know,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday 07 October 2010 17:38:13 Curtis Olson wrote: I haven't researched this, but I wonder what a fair price would be to rent a dedicated linux server with an unmetered 100mbit connection to the internet? Would that be sufficient to run a good multiplayer server? One company that I can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Gary Neely
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be prepared to contribute some money for a dedicated MP/code/download server, even if it was in the US and I wouldn't benefit personally. I'm sure with a bit of publicity using the newsletter we could get together

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Curtis Olson
Gary and Stuart, We could certainly explore the donation route. I'm doing a little bit of research to try to determine what the realistic costs would be to setup a dedicated server to run a multiplayer system. That will give us a better idea what we need to shoot for. Don't feel like you have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Nathanael Rebsch
Stefan Seifert wrote: On Thursday 07 October 2010 17:38:13 Curtis Olson wrote: I haven't researched this, but I wonder what a fair price would be to rent a dedicated linux server with an unmetered 100mbit connection to the internet? Would that be sufficient to run a good multiplayer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread willie
On 07/10/10 21:47, Hal V. Engel wrote: On Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:13:46 pm Curtis Olson wrote: Gary and Stuart, We could certainly explore the donation route. I'm doing a little bit of research to try to determine what the realistic costs would be to setup a dedicated server to run a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Stuart Buchanan
We could certainly explore the donation route. I'm doing a little bit of research to try to determine what the realistic costs would be to setup a dedicated server to run a multiplayer system. That will give us a better idea what we need to shoot for. I agree that we need some real

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Csaba Halász
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote: Gary and Stuart, We could certainly explore the donation route.  I'm doing a little bit of research to try to determine what the realistic costs would be to setup a dedicated server to run a multiplayer system.  That will 

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread Gary Neely
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.com wrote: We could certainly explore the donation route.  I'm doing a little bit of research to try to determine what the realistic costs would be to setup a dedicated server to run a multiplayer system.  That will give us a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02 close down)

2010-10-07 Thread fierst42
My two cents: Subscriptions need bookkeeping and decent administration of valid user accounts etc.. While there might be someone out there that is willing to do this task at this point in time, that will end some day. It will probably be hard to find volunteers for this task. I am in favor of