Hosting, what do you pay for it.

@Wicked_Witch:

@Worfeh: Thanks for your reply

About the sharing, that’s correct. 2 weeks ago whe had problems with our line, and the provider told us that from the 40:1 stuff…
This was something i never knew.

Our server stands in The Netherlands. People from Canada and America have a ping around the 135.
The provider we use have a lower ping. My other line has a higher ping.
The max i could reach with the adsl is 9 mb.
I have tought about renting a server, but i think we have to less players to pay that big money every month.

If i look to the Discovery server, withs 1000’s players, than it’s worth the money.
For now, i deside to stay on the homeserver.
It’s not 100% i know, but i try to get a best performance and a best hardware stuff i could get.
We are waiting till we get glassfiber in our area. But nobody know’s when it’s coming. They say that the whole city from us, must be ready in 2010. True or false, nobody knows

And it’s not really that bad as homeserver, so….;)

I live in the netherlands as well. And even tho we are one of the countries who have highest geographical bandwidth occupation ADSL is still a main issue regarding upload speed. The 9mb you get is for download, the upload is max 1mbit. Cable is somewhat better and they now offer 60 mbit lines up and download (i believe) in certain area’s on cable. The fibers look nice but when you invensigate it a bit closer you’ll find out that the sharing is up to 1:100, I know cos 2 of my companies have that and i pay a great deal of cash to get the sharing to 1:10 and still we sometimes have issues with that. Otherwise i could host this site on one of those lines, but i don’t want to compromise business with private stuff.
I do use a test server on those lines for FL testing tho, and the archived site used to run on a capped line for a while there.

Ohh, anyone looking for cheap ass servers on a decent connection.

Just found this, http://www.worldstream.nl/home

@Strail:

They charge 19% VAT

Yups common rate in Dutchie land (where i live), they even want to put that on 20% next year.
And tbh, i never look at VAT…. cos i don’t pay it (company).

@bulldogg:

so it seems most people use contracted hosting for their servers, anyone ever used co-location hosting? if you dont know what it is check here http://www.webhostgear.com/18.html

Yes. i have used colocation hosting.
The funny part is that colocation is allmost just as expensive as renting a full server. With renting a full server you most of the time get loads more and the price is like 10% more.
With colocation you also have the problem that you have to maintain the hardware, support you can’t ask because the OS you installed is yours, and with colo the support is most of the time expensive.

The next downside is the investment you have to make before you drop a server in a cabinet. You will have to buy a 1U server, and the hardware for that format is a bit more expensive, that there is the coise of hardware ofcourse and you are responsible yourself for the hardware. If it breaks you are responsible for fixing it and not the colo hoster, this is ok when you live nearby but in my case i have to drive for 1.5 hours to put a power cable backin the colo support “accidentaly” plugged out.

Colocation is nice once you have a whole bunch of servers, or when you want a server with a redicules amount of storrage.
But just for hosting a service, game a dedicated server or even a VPS would be my preference.