what exactly are the zoneservers?
 

ok for my own local server i first run publiclogin.exe then world.exe and the bootup5zones.bat

but what excatly are the zoneservers ? booting up 5 means only 5 zones are up at a time? i just want to understand what i'm doing :)

correct. the zone servers host the zones. they're built to load zones on demand.

so if there are 100 hundred players in 5 zones and one moves to another zone which is not loaded he would get disconnected?

anyone know what happens if i would run 10 zone servers ? do they need much RAM or just CPU ? because i got 512 MB RAM in my server but only P3 600mhz

if you only have 5 zones loaded and there's at least 1 person in each zone and another person zones to a zone that isn't loaded then yes, they will disconnect.

as to 10 zones, try it out. i usually run 10-15 zones when i have my server on eqlogin.eqemu.net. dont notice much difference. most people i've had on at one time was 23, and only across 3 zones sooooo...
i think unloaded zone servers themselves dont take much, but with a loaded zone and characters in the zone it may. ???

thx for the info :)

with your system you should be able to run 10 zone servers comfortably, depending on how many people are playing on your server...