Question: Since RTB Hosting is gone, what hosting thing should I use?

[0xBRIANSMITH]

I bought a windows VPS for 8 pounds a month (ended up being $90 for a year or something like that). It came with RDC which is basically makes it like using another windows computer. for $2 more you get 2GB of RAM 100GB of HDD Space 1Gbps internet with unlimited bandwidth. I think in anyone's book that is a much better deal.

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[Lugnut]

I bought a windows VPS for 8 pounds a month (ended up being $90 for a year or something like that). It came with RDC which is basically makes it like using another windows computer. for $2 more you get 2GB of RAM 100GB of HDD Space 1Gbps internet with unlimited bandwidth. I think in anyone's book that is a much better deal.

So why didn't anyone do this before while RTB was still around?

[0xBRIANSMITH]

So why didn't anyone do this before while RTB was still around?

RTB was like $6/month and had professionals maintaining and expanding it 24/7, along with the beautiful hosting panel and other features, it seems like it would appeal to an inexperienced user. Either way I only found out such deals existed a month ago, and now I'm doing my best to tell everyone about it too.

[Hammereditor5]

Using a hosting service is much more efficient than using your own VPS.
Let's say that someday, your Blockland server got popular and had a lot of players on it all of a sudden, and the OS plus other applications use 512 MB. And Blockland uses 600 MB.
Now you need a 1.15 GB VPS just to make sure the system will never run out of RAM. The cheapest provider I know which is reliable will charge $8/month for this (We love servers).
By hosting yourself, you need 600 MB of RAM to provide "cushioning" in case the server may get popular.
However, let's consider a hosting service with 8 GB of free RAM (1.5 GB is uses by the OS and other programs). Since they can host more BL servers, the cost of hardware per BL serv. is cheaper. So now your needed RAM per server goes down to 275-350 MB per server instead of 600. The result? Since there is 6.5 GB of free RAM, you can run 20 Blockland.exe's. For this kind of system, it will cost $45/month (from Server4you). That means your average price per Blockland server is now $2.25 instead of $8.00!

[Operator¹]

yeah but if your key gets stolen that's a $10-$20 loss

[Hammereditor5]

yeah but if your key gets stolen that's a $10-$20 loss

That is a $10/20 loss for you, but not a $10/20 gain for the hosting service. Service managers already have their own Blockland keys.

[Lugnut]

yeah but if your key gets stolen that's a $10-$20 loss

The reputation of the host is permanently tarnished. This is something one cannot easily recover from, possibly ever depending on if badspot IP bans the guy.
I am not stupid enough to waste an account with 5 years on it for something like this. I assume hammereditor cannot go any lower in terms of reputation, he doesn't want negatives. Cowboy appears honest.
No one is dumb enough to go on a keystealing impersonation joyride.

That is a $10/20 loss for you, but not a $10/20 gain for the hosting service. Service managers already have their own Blockland keys.

Fantastic point.

[Zeblote]

That is a $10/20 loss for you, but not a $10/20 gain for the hosting service. Service managers already have their own Blockland keys.

It is far more than a $20 loss, unless you know a way of purchasing a new key for id 1163 in case it gets stolen.