November Financial Summary

[kyrios]

Dont get me wrong but i still just wonder about your server costs - why are your root servers that expensive?

If you order a dedicated server in the U.K you'll get a 8 GIG Quadcore (TB Raid) with all the nice extras for about 60 pounds, which is like 94 $.
3 Servers come 282.- $$ - why are you paying almost thousand bucks? Odd.

The U.K. server has 3 TB traffic included.

The server company has also server farms in germany, where the traffic is unlimited (!) and they are even cheaper:
90 bucks/server with everything included.


The IRC Server:
Should be a service on the webserver, no need for an extra (virtual) machine.


3 servers á 90 = 270,-
1 virtual Windows server (what for?): 10,-

Total: 280,- $



Like said, dont get me wrong - i just sense something:
The project will still take alooong time and almost every developer once being part here has left.
These days only one Dev keeps up the work, TA is bugfixing.

Does not sound promising and i am pretty sure it wont change anytime soon.
In terms of forsight it is advised to cut the costs to ensure the EMU going and not suffering from unpaid server invoices.




Just my 0.02

[Revanis]

Dont get me wrong but i still just wonder about your server costs - why are your root servers that expensive?

If you order a dedicated server in the U.K you'll get a 8 GIG Quadcore (TB Raid) with all the nice extras for about 60 pounds, which is like 94 $.
3 Servers come 282.- $$ - why are you paying almost thousand bucks? Odd.

I may be wrong here, but I believe this setup is still used (can't remember exactly right now):



Two octa-core server processors, but we upgraded the line to a 1.0 Gbit connection, and the webserver is running 8GB RAM. The vast majority of our players are US-based so US-based hosting is, I imagine, preferred. Pricing may be different between countries.

[Tonberry]

The IRC Server:
Should be a service on the webserver, no need for an extra (virtual) machine.

The other stuff might be false info but I've long thought that our current IRC service is a waste of money. It doesn't happen very often but occasionally it goes down and every now and then there is a chain of screw ups. It'd probably be easier to host it ourselves, I mean it uses practically nothing in terms of resources as far as I am aware. It would cut a few dollars and probably be more stable in the long term.