S2 Working on Australian Servers

[Soz]

We have received some initial prices on hosting boxes in Australia:

Our boxes on average use 4,000-5,000 GB of data transfer a month, we get these boxes for roughly $200 USD each in EU/USA

Provider 1: $1250 per month for hardware, $11,250.00 per month for bandwidth per box, box would support 110 concurrent users

Provider 2: $1100 per month for hardware, $22,500 per month for bandwidth per box, would support about 220 concurrent users.

We have also made inquiries at Internode and are awaiting a quote back from them (it was requested last week Tuesday).

So as you can see, the economics of hosting boxes in AU is just not there currently.

Bad news is that Australian servers cost a shittonne. Good news is we apparently have a sexy accent.

[Spectral]

That post is over a month old.

[XViper]

Well this is the first time I've seen it, so thanks Soz

Hopefully Internode give them a good offer. Unfortunately the bandwidth costs just in Australia just can't be avoided. "Using the Internet" is just so much more expensive here than in Europe and USA.

[retaxis]

prices should be dropping soon hopefully with the completion of ppc-1 (see here) and isp's starting to get onto using it.

[Acaila]

FYI: The dedicated server software has been released, I will have at least one server up later today.

Edit: Sorry guys wrong game. I miss read the email and/or clicked on the wrong forum topic to post. The software released today was for Shattered Horizons.

[Fireslide]

This is good news :D

[Fonzey]

This is very good news!

[Cloudywolf]

This is Epic news! I hope you can keep us updated on what's happening =D

[Acaila]

False alarm sorry.

I will follow up with Corp Sales about where we are at with a hosting agreement however.

[Cut Throat]

Hopes and dreams shattered damnit acaila

[Jeatalong]

And then you graduate from school and deal with those feelings on a weekly basis

Seriously, hopefully you can get a nice server deal that will bring more money into GON, and hopefully bootstrap a few bookable servers.

[Cut Throat]

And then you graduate from school and deal with those feelings on a weekly basis

Seriously, hopefully you can get a nice server deal that will bring more money into GON, and hopefully bootstrap a few bookable servers.

And then you grow up and stop trying to demean people .

[Jeatalong]

Reread my post again will you?

[RogerDodger]

If Internode were hosting HoN servers would we then get Unmetered Usage to it?

If so I'll probably be saving a lot of quota

[Minkelz]

Yeah this game burns data. I think that's just because it's unoptimized in beta though.