Singh wrote:

kasperl wrote:Running HLP on a paid-for server would cost around 1500 dollars a year, IIRC and AFAIK. And that is with some rather shady hosts. To go with something truly reliable, your looking at 2 grand yearly.

Ach. $150 a month. thats a bit too high IMO.

You sure HLP requires that much? Any way to actually get proper statistics? O_O

all hosted project stuff + all that stuff that is hosted in Fileplanet and Database, yeah we need lot space and lot bandwith (HLP uses 2GB Bandwith in day IIRC)

Holy imperial Gloriano wrote:

Singh wrote:

kasperl wrote:Running HLP on a paid-for server would cost around 1500 dollars a year, IIRC and AFAIK. And that is with some rather shady hosts. To go with something truly reliable, your looking at 2 grand yearly.

Ach. $150 a month. thats a bit too high IMO.

You sure HLP requires that much? Any way to actually get proper statistics? O_O

all hosted project stuff + all that stuff that is hosted in Fileplanet and Database, yeah we need lot space and lot bandwith (HLP uses 2GB Bandwith in day IIRC)

Ok, screw it. there goes my idea to try and host HLP then.

ach. that was me....

I don't see why we don't all chip in to build a server box to our specification and then host it on a 3m cable modem($40 a month where I live).

liberator wrote:I don't see why we don't all chip in to build a server box to our specification and then host it on a 3m cable modem($40 a month where I live).

A cable moden won't handle the upload, and I doubt your ISP would allow you that much traffic either - 60-100 Gigs.

Probably 50 Gigs downstream would be acceptable, but in both ways (120-200 Gigs) highly unlikely.

2 GB a day is peanuts, as far as large community hubs go.

What matters mostly though is the number of dynamic pages that are served every day. Shared hosting is not going to put up with that many mysql hits. They mean to run a few hundred sites (sometimes a thousand) on one budget server and they won't let you use up a good portion of the resources. Don't fall for "unlimited transfer" schemes. The fine print will usually line out a 6 - 10 GB monthly limit, but they will also shut you down for using too much CPU time or I/O. And "too much" is an arbitrary value. HLP is too big for shared hosting, period.

A VPS solution should do nicely, I think. You get a guaranteed amount of resources for a bit more money than shared hosting. It's somewhere between shared hosting and dedicated in terms of price and features. VPS colo has a rather good reputation and the $40 package would fit the bill if 60GB monthly is all you need.

http://www.vpscolo.com/packages.php

Somebody mentioned $1500 / year dedicated servers as being "shady". Far from it. You can get a box from an established, reliable company like ev1servers.net for $100 monthly with 1300GB transfer. You might not need that much, however.

This is so frustrating.

What makes me laugh is that every time I logged onto HLP, the first ad at the top was always 'Gamespy Servers - We Hear You'.....

What happened this time? Anyone know?

I wonder if they got hacked again. IIRC gamespy stores all passwords in cleartext, which is probably the first thing they tell you *not* to do in any web development course. So part of the last slip-up may be whole accounted to gamespuy's stupidity.

[EDIT] Holy crap! I register here and suddenly HLP works again! My plan has suceeded.

its back up. looks like someone forgot to plug in the server to the wall

Ok, so hosting HLP itself is out of the question.....but what about just the forums?

That can't take up THAT much space can it?

And if the Dynamic4 servers go down, at least we'd have someplace to come together, worst comes to worst....

I hate IGN.

I hate Gamespy.

The internet sucks.

This is fun.

I just built a good box. -I could totally dedicate it if we had to.

1.76 GHz 2500+ AMD Sempron
333 FSB
512 DDR RAM PC3200
200 GIGs of space
Broadband connection (10 mbps download/8 mbps upload via fiber optic)

I would be willing to host the forums (either being just the mysql, php or both). I have several gigs of bandwidth, no limit that I have observed so far. I will read up on my ISP's license agreement to see if there are actually any limits.

I could load the forums VB 3.
http://freespaceserver.cjb.net/forum/

OK, I just checked. Unlimited. There is no limit besides the 10mbps/8mbps