POLL: Would you rent a game server on a per hour basis?

[Jeff7181]

For a small group of friends or a small clan or something like that... about 16 people.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Small group of friends no, because we just all pack up the rigs and sit them within Cat5e range of each other.

Clan maybe.

- M4H

 

[Jeff7181]

Hmmm... has anyone ever rented a server for a clan?

 

[phonemonkey]

Hmmm... if I could do that, I'd be able to retire from my sh!tty job and just rent out my servers.

 

Topic Title: POLL: Would you rent a game server on a per house basis?

Per HOUR basis?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: jester79
Hmmm... if I could do that, I'd be able to retire from my sh!tty job and just rent out my servers.

Do you have a connection capable of that many connections?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

So if you wanted the server to run for a year it would cost you $10 * 24 * 365 = $87600.

How about 'No way in hell'?

Unless it was for a single skirmish against another clan, or a 256 proc Itanium 2 machine with 2 petabyte RAM and a 100TB link I'd say it was a tiny bit too expensive to my taste.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Topic Title: POLL: Would you rent a game server on a per house basis?

Per HOUR basis?

LOL... wonder how I did that... fixed =)

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
So if you wanted the server to run for a year it would cost you $10 * 24 * 365 = $87600.

How about 'No way in hell'?

Unless it was for a single skirmish against another clan, or a 256 proc Itanium 2 machine with 2 petabyte RAM and a 100TB link I'd say it was a tiny bit too expensive to my taste.

Duh... that's why I said per hour. If you want something available 24/7 you lease them monthly

*EDIT* Well actually I said per house, but whatever

 

[WobbleWobble]

Isn't that kind of pricey?

I don't think my clan pays that much for our 20 man CS pub server... I believe it is around 100 bucks a month.

Private servers should be much cheaper.

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Hmmm... has anyone ever rented a server for a clan?

yes. $24/month is usually the best price you can find on servers. it would be stupid to pay $10/hour.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: hdeck

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Hmmm... has anyone ever rented a server for a clan?

yes. $24/month is usually the best price you can find on servers. it would be stupid to pay $10/hour.

Really? That low? Where?

 

[Regs]

But what connection would you use? And how much bandwidth will it take up?

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: hdeck

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Hmmm... has anyone ever rented a server for a clan?

yes. $24/month is usually the best price you can find on servers. it would be stupid to pay $10/hour.

Really? That low? Where?

Servers like that are rented out to multiple users at once. You don't have exclusive rights to them. Just FYI