Serious question on public server

provocating · #1 02-18-2011, 02:27 PM

I am just curious on the legalities of a public server. Has anyone running a public server been bothered by Sony ? Do they just not care ?

I have thought of opening up one but I am not sure and still deciding.

**Congdar** · #2 02-18-2011, 02:42 PM

there are around 50 public servers running today
my server has been up for over 3 years and it's fairly new as others have been around much longer without any notices from sony.

Fulcrum · #3 02-18-2011, 02:44 PM

I believe you'll find all your answers and more right here in this thread: LINK.

provocating · #4 02-18-2011, 02:55 PM

I have a 50MB/s down 5MB/s up connection how many people should I be able to do ?

Fulcrum · #5 02-18-2011, 03:01 PM

I don't believe there are any measured benchmarks other than 'Few', 'Some', 'Many', and 'Lots', though I could be mistaken.

I think you'd settle nicely somewhere in the general vicinity between 'Many' and 'Lots' if I were forced to guess at it.

... and after being around for 3ish+ years, I suspect that you have a better idea of what it'd handle than I would.

provocating · #6 02-18-2011, 03:05 PM

I am just a lurker.

I think I recall hearing people going over 1,000 players on 3MB/s