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Steam authentication for HammerHost
Hammereditor5:
--- Quote from: LeetZero on March 06, 2014, 05:28:17 PM ---Europeans would choose Europe and Americans will choose America.
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The only excuse is better ping time for Americans. The European one is clearly a better choice in every part but meant for Europeans.
" If too many clients register, I can easily upgrade to a 32 GB dedicated server for $125/month. It can hold 80 BL dedi-servers."
Instead of doing that, you could go both ways and get both.
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I'll tell you why, at $125, it's better to get one big New York server rather than a small New York and a small Germany.
Let's say each Contabo 16 GB VPS can hold 20 clients, and costs $40 each. Let's assume I buy 1 of those, so now I can hold 20 clients in Europe.
After that, I can get a 8 GB Servermania VPS in New York for $60/month. This can also hold 20 clients. Now I'm spending $100/month.
So I have 40 slots total, at $100.
However, what if I purchased one big 32 GB dedicated server from Servermania? It could hold 80 clients. The ping from them to Europe is relatively low, and RTB thought the ping was good enough for them to not need a European server.
So for $125/month, I have 80 slots. Double the slots for only a 25% greater price.
Hammereditor5:
--- Quote from: 0xBRIANSMITH on March 06, 2014, 05:38:31 PM ---on what subtropical planet do you think that you can use a $40 VPS to host an entire hosting service
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It all depends on how large the service is. The quality remains the same no matter what the scale is; a 4 GB VPS will host Blockland as well as a 16 GB dedicated server. It just can't run as many. I used a $40 VPS for HamHost and it worked out well.
--- Quote from: $trinick on March 06, 2014, 05:32:14 PM ---"I laugh at how horrible my work was 7 months ago. Obviously, those 7 months have turned me into an industry professional and I will now be providing a top knotch control panel that will rival Ephialtes' and Lub's individual years of experience working for actual companies designing client interfaces."
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1: This hosting service is not intended to rival RTB's control panel, and I never said that. HammerHost is just supposed to be a replacement, to provide reasonably-priced and reasonable-quality hosting to all the players who lost it after RTB's collapse. As time goes on, and depending on the service's popularity, I will improve it.
2: 3 months of operating HamHost has not made me an expert, but it has obviously made me capable of managing HammerHost.
Lugnut:
you're flat out putting words into his mouth, trinick. I expected better from you.
here's a more accurate version:
--- Quote from: $trinick on March 06, 2014, 05:32:14 PM ---"I laugh at how horrible my work was 7 months ago. Obviously, those 7 months have given me more insight and experience, and the system will be better this time around."
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I didn't see him claiming to be better than RTBHost, just saying that he'll do a better job this time than the last.
Honestly, even I didn't try claiming that. I said I would work towards it, but that I definitely wouldn't start there. He isn't even saying he'll work towards that, but he sure as forget isn't saying he's already there.
--- Quote from: 0xBRIANSMITH on March 06, 2014, 05:38:31 PM ---on what subtropical planet do you think that you can use a $40 VPS to host an entire hosting service
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well... you can
0xBRIANSMITH:
--- Quote from: 0xBRIANSMITH on March 06, 2014, 05:38:31 PM ---on what subtropical planet do you think that you can use a $40 VPS to host a quality hosting service
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fixed that for myself.
Lugnut:
--- Quote from: 0xBRIANSMITH on March 06, 2014, 05:46:34 PM ---fixed that for myself.
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ok that makes more sense
i still think you can though, just a bit harder.