I have a 25MB down 3MB up Charter Cable connection. It is a dynamic IP, but the IP rarely changes and I use dyndns.org for dynamic DNS that makes it so I can always get to my server by name if the IP ever changes.
For backups, I just set scheduled DB backups. I don't need to backup quests/plugins because I use dropbox, which basically keeps real-time backups online as well as on my PCs that also use dropbox. It is really nice for keeping them all synced up.
I mainly use the public Login Server, but also have connections to the PEQ one and the TSA Hosting one that can be used if the main one is ever down as long as people have set a password on them from in-game. Having your own LS isn't a bad idea, but I just don't see much of a need for it these days since Rogean took over running the LS and it is very stable.
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