My idea is that if someone want to start a business in this area it's better if he start it knowing what he is doing... bringing some quality into his company...<br><br>I can assure you that if renting a tcadmin/(any other cp licence), put it up and start selling gameserver was as much valid as our in-home-built cp we wouldn't be "stealing" all the costumers to other existing gsp running inefficient and without "innovation" platforms ;)<br>
<br>You either need skill (to code your own things) or a lot of money (get someone to do what you are not able to do) to start a company and profit for it...<br><br>If you have none of them I see it hard to make some decent profit...<br>
<br>ready-to-go things IMHO are very good if you have a pair of servers to manage.... but if you have hundreds/thousands of gameservers it's well worth to create something PERFECT and that you think can make a difference compared to the rest of the market ;)<br>
<br>that's valid also to GUARANTEE to your costumers a top quality service... I would hide my head under the sand and start crying if a costumer would call me telling "this things is not working as it should" and I had to contact a 3rd party to get that fixed!!<br>
<br>Replying *instantly* to costumer needs (fixing eventually broken things or implementing new stuff) is a MUST to be succesful imho...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Christian Gerbrandt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerbra@gotadsl.co.uk">gerbra@gotadsl.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Which is very difficult for a new company.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">In the start they all have to save as much money as they can, so they are going to use a ready CP for their Gameservers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Later they might change and get a custom one.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I’m not really looking to start a business here, but I’m interested in how others are managing their Servers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">And occasionally I setup a server for a friend or two.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Would be nice to have something which they can control/manage their servers without me.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I like SCinterface the most, but it is very complex, and needs a strange setup.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Was only able to test their VM image of it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Might code my own, as all the others are encoded, and you can’t customize them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Will also have a look at the solution provided from escapedturkey. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> Marco Padovan [mailto:<a href="mailto:evolutioncrazy@gmail.com" target="_blank">evolutioncrazy@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 07 October 2009 18:04<div class="im"><br><b>To:</b> Call of Duty server admin list.<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cod] Gameserver CP</div></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">custom built ftw!!!</p>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">LOL @ ppl using ready to go systems...</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">a custom built panel is the only way to offer something more compared to any other hoster running default things......</p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Christian Gerbrandt <<a href="mailto:gerbra@gotadsl.co.uk" target="_blank">gerbra@gotadsl.co.uk</a>> wrote:</p><div><div><p>Hi,</p>
<p> </p><p>As there are a few Gameserver Hoster watching this mailinglist,</p><p>Is there a Gameserver CP you could recommend?</p><p>Or what are you using. Custom build?</p><p> </p><p>Kind regards,</p><p>Christian</p></div>
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