This is not a topic officially approved by Virmir. I'm just curious.(Inspired by talk in chat yesterday)
Do you think that the idea of some of us raising together money for a second Linode that would act as a game server is feasible?
A Linode 512 is $19.95 per month. It can easily handle a few instances of a
TF2 server, and from what I heard around should lift up the memory hog that is
Minecraft server too. Quite possibly both of these together, and maybe even more stuff you'd want/need, tho we'd have to try to know for sure.
It offers a good reliable service on a high-performance machine with guaraneed slice of processing power available, and a professional datacenter Phat Pipe two hops from main backbone. Sure that should stop your complaints about lag on Virmir's narrow-upload DSL?
Now think about it... if ten people would be interested, it's $2 per month for each of them. If five, well, it's still "only" $4. Of course, if soemone'd want to contribute more, or pay $12 for three(six?) months up front so there's no "paypal fee larger than what I send" ridiculousness, it all sure could be arranged... but that's a song for later.
For now, keeping in mind that we would HAVE to have these twenty bucks ready each month, no ifs or buts, would you be interested in such a project, and
could you afford to contribute? If so, how much at most?Not making it a poll, because I don't want to see 20 anonymous YES votes then no one standing up to them... no offense meant >.>;