[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs
escapedturkey
escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com
Tue Feb 2 06:01:04 EST 2010
Isn't it against most ISP policies to host any sort of dedicated server
process, especially web sites, database, and game servers at home due to
the current limitations with bandwidth?
Midnight wrote:
> That's not the fault of the GSP, it is the fault of the game for using
> so much CPU to host the server. Also, with a community everyone should
> be able to chip in $5 a month, then they can easily afford multiple
> servers. Saying the servers are too expensive holds no water, servers
> are super cheap these days at $1/slot or less. Just skip buying soda
> with your burger 3 times a week and you just paid for your $5 contribution.
>
> Good luck trying to host a 32-64+ player server from home. Oh wait, I
> forgot, they are reducing the games to 16 player max to accommodate the
> consoles, nm.
>
> Besides that, nothing is preventing people from hosting from home right
> now. But they don't do it because nobody wants to play on servers
> hosted from home cause they are garbage. Players would obviously rather
> pay for quality hosting.
>
>
> RedDragon wrote:
>> I think, it isn't the bandwidth.
>> The publisher heading is from dedicated servers to peer2peer. In some
>> cases like EA/Dice the server are too expensive for most clans and
>> communitys to rent them for a cupple of months.
>>
>> -RedDragon (clanleader)
>>
>> Am 02.02.2010 11:27, schrieb escapedturkey:
>>> Do you believe GSPs will become obsolete as home bandwidth gets
>>> larger and hardware evolves faster and smaller?
>>>
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