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Originally Posted by Straif
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As for more servers. There are human beings running this thing. I'm pretty sure they have responsibilities and families. What they do is solely their decision, our experience is at their digression. I can't speak for anyone but I doubt more servers is a part of the game plan. As for donating and contributing, we might as well implement a subscription fee (though legally you probably can't). Not to knock on helping the server out but I'm unemployed, which is the main reason as to why I invest as much time as I do in this server.
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It can be done IMHO. I'm pretty sure in the server population there's people who could assist with various aspects of the technical operation of a remote hosted server, have done it before, are knowledgable about running an eqemu, and willing to spend some time doing it. Me for example, but probably there's more
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Of course, donations would need to be reflective of the costs. When I ran a couple of web servers with a back end database server for a large web event (100hoursofastronomy.org) in a decent data centre last year it cost $410/mo per server with dedicated firewall... plus $349 for one time setup. A more rugged DDOS-resistant firewall might be more. Dunno if they break out the eqemu and database servers right now to seperate boxes but thats $920/mo plus $700 setup... pretty steep just to get another server off the ground.
Content wise I don't see much more load, since the content would be mirrored on the servers. Customer service would need to be beefed up but that could be a guide program IMHO...
Possible, but a pretty sizable initiative. There'd need to be a lot of trust established between the leadership team and the newbies before they'd probably let something like this rip as well!
Regards,
Mg