New Server Drive - donation and prize thread (Final total: $13,310!)

[Ricochet]

How much does hosting cost a month? Our server is co-located at Cyberstreet in Florida, the same people who host Adlon’s Mortality.net. We pay $400 a month for hosting, and are hooked up to a 10 MB fiberoptic data pipe. We don’t expect this to change appreciably over the next year.

My god that's a lot of money for hosting!!! Why don't you get a permanent connection, and host yourself.. I mean, you already have the servers, why pay that insane amount of money for hosting, when a permanent connection is cheaper. Here in Denmark, you can get a 8MB connection for about $300 a month, but we are the most expensive country in the western world in regards to cable-prices and such, meaning it would be even less expensive in the US or UK.

 

[mythusmage]

It's not just the connection. It's also the cost of housing the server. Servers need a good home. In addition, a mere 8 megs of bandwidth aint gonna cut it. For something like ENWorld you need a T1 line at the very least, a T3 if you can swing it. Them is pricey. There are times when you've got over 1,000 connections going at once. Cutting the speed down to 8 megs would cause serious problems.

Now, if Morrus ran a hosting service, that would be one thing. But he don't, so we make do with what we can afford.

 

[mythusmage]

You Have Been Warned

To all who donated prizes for this drive:

I donated $10.00 US. Since I only donated $10.00 US be aware that if you do send me anything for any dang reason that I will write about your product at Mythus Mutters. If that don't discourage you, be certain that I shall be honest in my appraisal.

In any case, my thanks for what you, the publishers, have done in support of this community.

 

[philreed]

Phil, that's one cool frikkin' prize. Wow!

Thanks. I can't take complete credit for the idea -- Ed over at SkeletonKey Games inspired the idea while we were chatting on the phone yesterday.

Dwarven Odors? Hmmmm. That's got my brain going -- I think you could actually get something interesting out of that idea.

 

[Michael Morris]

How much does hosting cost a month? Our server is co-located at Cyberstreet in Florida, the same people who host Adlon’s Mortality.net. We pay $400 a month for hosting, and are hooked up to a 10 MB fiberoptic data pipe. We don’t expect this to change appreciably over the next year.

My god that's a lot of money for hosting!!! Why don't you get a permanent connection, and host yourself.. I mean, you already have the servers, why pay that insane amount of money for hosting, when a permanent connection is cheaper. Here in Denmark, you can get a 8MB connection for about $300 a month, but we are the most expensive country in the western world in regards to cable-prices and such, meaning it would be even less expensive in the US or UK.

8 MB? We go through that every minute or so.

Our dataline peaks at 10 Megabytes (not gigabaud) / sec - not per month. I've shopped around, we're not being robbed. Besides, Cyberstreet has allowed us to get away with some stunts a larger company wouldn't have (like drop behind 4 months in the bills - the cause of last year's previous fund drive).

 

[Lebagorin]

As an avid reader, but very poor contributor (to the message boards) my donation is sent with thanks to all those who work hard to keep this site going.

Cheers

 

[shady]

$30 + community support account
Best of luck, guys

 

[FoolishFrost]

To all who donated prizes for this drive:

I donated $10.00 US. Since I only donated $10.00 US be aware that if you do send me anything for any dang reason that I will write about your product at Mythus Mutters. If that don't discourage you, be certain that I shall be honest in my appraisal.

In any case, my thanks for what you, the publishers, have done in support of this community.

Hmnn... :\

Did I miss too much of my morning caffeen? I'm not sure what you're talking about.

 

[Psionicist]

8 MB? We go through that every minute or so.

Our dataline peaks at 10 Megabytes (not gigabaud) / sec - not per month. I've shopped around, we're not being robbed. Besides, Cyberstreet has allowed us to get away with some stunts a larger company wouldn't have (like drop behind 4 months in the bills - the cause of last year's previous fund drive).

10 megabytes per second means you're on a 100 mbit connection. If you are on 10 mbit, the maximum peak is 1.25 megabyte / second. www.cyberstreet.com says.

Fast, reliable service
Our modems are 56K bps speed. Our connection to the Internet is via three full T1s. (1.54 Megabits per second each)

I don't get it.

 

[Michael Morris]

I'm just quoting (probably misquoting) what Adlon has mentioned in private discussions.