See that is a good question. I don't want to go broke and I figure start small. even if it has a bandwith restriction I don't think I will have a ton of people joining my server (at least not right away :=): ) I have seen a few out there for as little as like $5 a month but they are usualy missing something.
I am only thinking about an external server because I'm not sure how well my connection could support more connections if I started getting them. I know EQEmu and Everquest was designed for low bandwith (Dialup in the old days) but still not sure how well it would hold up if I got say more then 15 or 20 people playing on it.
I figured start small. Build off from there. Maybe get a page setup and some residual income to pay for upkeep (yes I know any money has to be volintary and I can't make a profit it all has to go to the upkeep) plus might take a little bit off my system I'm using. not that is't straining it any.
This is what I got:
Phenon II x6 core 3.0 GHz
16 gig DDR 3
NVidia 460 GTX OC 1 gig DDR5
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
My Internet = 10Mbps down / 0.8 Mbps up / Ping about 31 (DSL)
I'm running Wamp (MySQL / Apache / PHPMyAdmin / PHP )
I just switched my DB over to Wamp and now it's tied into PHPMyAdmin and PEQ Editor with the Apache.
(At least as long as I don't start running into any problems)
Was just "window shopping" to see if there was anything out there that might be worth putting my server out there (I like tinkering with things I have rented servers before for different things)
And not sure what my stuff will support without issues like lag and stuff.. since My connection is so close to home. Nothing to compare with.
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