Choria - 2D MMORPG

[BlindSide]

i'll give VPS a try, it looks like their service matches the low-server requirement for my garage-type graphics programs. Not sure if they'll allow me to install programs like enet, raknet and other custom-install applications at that price point, it sounds like a shared webhosting deal, except it's a VPS. can you confirm that to me before I make any stupid mistakes.

You get your own computer with linux on it that you log onto through SSH. That's pretty much what it feels like.

@ rogerborg: The most basic plan is 64mb, so it would be pretty hard not to blow your budget. On the other hand, I actually chose OpenVZ by accident when I signed up, and everything ran accordingly, my C# server barely used 10 mb. I suppose it comes down to how much you can afford, you can pay extra and not have to page, or you can be cheap and run something that normally wouldn't with a 64mb allowance at an incredibly slow and choppy rate.

[dlangdev]

yep, that's definitely what my wallet is going to hand me, though. i'd like to play around with real networking stuff soon as i've been testing on local net which doesn't even simulate network lag.

for the price of $7/mo, i'll be able to move forward with my experiments and testing. until the day comes when everything falls into place and a gameworld is made.

[rogerborg]

@ rogerborg: The most basic plan is 64mb, so it would be pretty hard not to blow your budget.

You shouldn't need more than 640kB.

[dlangdev]

offtopic...sorry.

blindside: i just signed-up vpslink. it looks like python and perl were the default install, no gcc in there as well. so, it may be good to start with a python based game server code first. i'll check out http://www.pygame.org/ first and see if anything can be re-used from that project.

you said you were using c#, you probably installed it yourself, i would imagine it's from de icaza's project.

anyway, pm me later if you're interested in a collaborative testing/experiment.

[twilight17]

Dude you should try: InMotion Hosting it looks real nice.. and it's cheap!

[dlangdev]

sorry man, the fool and his (me) money has parted. i will check it out next time. thanks for the tip.

anyway, i got the vps set up with sshd, ftp, telnet. i'm currently playing around with python game server code at the moment.

[BlindSide]

Dude you should try: InMotion Hosting it looks real nice.. and it's cheap!

What are you talking about, their cheapest vps is 50 bucks a month.

The web hosting seems nice though.

[dlangdev]

that's $7 * 7mo = $49.

one month compared to seven months.

anyway, i'm pretty much a happy camper on this ubuntu 8 vps box. though i had to set up most of them using apt-get. getting a vps mean you have to know how to set up a linux server from a clean provision, tho.

/etc/init.d wasn't set up for the basic things, i had to get in there and add more daemons and then restart them.

i'll have to set up another ubuntu 8 client machine here at home in order to do some server development. then upload it to vps for more testing later on.

[BlindSide]

that's $7 * 7mo = $49.

[EDIT] BlindSide took his angry pill and calmed down. Anyway, as you can see that is not correct: [/EDIT]

1 Month - $49.95/mo

[twilight17]

Why would you need a VPS?

[dlangdev]

try setting up a daemon (server program) on one of those shared hosting, they will probably won't let you do that, tho.

you can do server stuff on a shared hosting, but it will be based on webservices, which i already have running on another server. a vps is good for daemon programs written in c,c++, python or anything that you can load from script.

[Jacky_J]

Thanks for all the good info.

BTW 0.2 is out
http://code.google.com/p/choria/