Most expensive server costs monthly?

[Yukino]

I think 300 dollars is a reasonable cost. Considering it includes hosting, advertising, website maintenance and hosting, domains, and other things.

If players are willing to donate, I think that would be really nice of them. Not just to buy things, but to help the server overall.

We're trying to cut down on some costs... since most of the players can't even donate since they can't pay online.

For us, it costs 15 US dollars monthly (cheapest VPS that I've researched about) to host the server and 9 US dollars annually for the website domain and hosting. Got some other free things as well (Trellis Desk, CP, and forum though we switched). So far, it seems like we're the cheapest XD..?

It's kind of scary to see how some server costs are past 1000 dollars O_O. That's really... wow. Expensive.

[GorthexTiger]

I think 300 dollars is a reasonable cost. Considering it includes hosting, advertising, website maintenance and hosting, domains, and other things.

If players are willing to donate, I think that would be really nice of them. Not just to buy things, but to help the server overall.

We're trying to cut down on some costs... since most of the players can't even donate since they can't pay online.

For us, it costs 15 US dollars monthly (cheapest VPS that I've researched about) to host the server and 9 US dollars annually for the website domain and hosting. Got some other free things as well (Trellis Desk, CP, and forum though we switched). So far, it seems like we're the cheapest XD..?

It's kind of scary to see how some server costs are past 1000 dollars O_O. That's really... wow. Expensive.

Only problem is, you get what you pay for.

We switched to another host from Frantech because of their downtime. We ended up going to VPSLand. It was a little bit more of an increase (from $12.50 to $19~then $29ish) but it seemed worth it.

God knows that later on we found out that they had horrible reviews. Our server would go offline, be unresponsive to any admin access, so we'd have to message them to reboot it. It literally took them 24-48 hours to reboot it. When I put in a request, instead of just going and doing it (what, maybe press a button?) they would"Move it to Reboot status" then wait. Another 8 hours "Queued for reboot". I'm like what the f***, seriously, that's totally useless.

Best advice evar: DO NOT GO TO VPSLAND OR THEY WILL EAT YOUR SOUL.

Anyways, the host we have no is great and actually pays us by the hour for each hour they are down ^_^

[Royale]

Ive already spent 211$ on a 30 day ad on top200 for example.

Lol, so you're the one who outbid me. DAMN IT!


For eAthena it would never go over $500 per month for JUST hosting costs. Even with 5k players.

These are the hosting costs that I currently pay:

• Dedicated Server running eAthena - $149
• VPS server hosting website utilities + downloads- $20

$169, and it's probably capable of handling ~1000 players.

[HiddenDragon]

EssenceRO currently spends $220/mo for dedicated box from Softlayer. Pretty sweet as it's held 1500+ connections with only 50% CPU. Not to mention, it served both website/forums/eAthena all on the same box.

As there's relatively few servers larger than 1500, anyone paying more than $250 is either paying for way overpriced servers or lying :<

[Yukino]

Wow, you all spend quite a lot of money monthly... Les numeros scare me.

At GorthexTiger: LOL, thanks for the advice XD. Your current host sounds awesome... pay you by the hour every time they're down O_O. That's a good deal.

At Royale: That's actually pretty good compared to the 300 dollars mentioned before. I'm guessing advertising would just add a bit more... to around 200?

At HiddenDragon: Maybe the prices have gone cheaper now? Costs below 300 would be tolerable, and anything over 500 -changed my mind- seems really expensive now after comparing everyone's costs.

[adhelle]

Ive already spent 211$ on a 30 day ad on top200 for example.

Lol, so you're the one who outbid me. DAMN IT!

oops xD

@ghortex, i recommend iweb. the first dedicated plan costs 69$, its actually very cheap considering its a dedicated, and their service is very good. if you get a good promotional day you can even get double ram. i have a modified plan, but it never went down since I started using it.

[Annihilate]

4k a month could get me into MIT

pass the applications 1st

[HiddenDragon]

At HiddenDragon: Maybe the prices have gone cheaper now? Costs below 300 would be tolerable, and anything over 500 -changed my mind- seems really expensive now after comparing everyone's costs.

At the time, EssenceRO was looking for a new server and Softlayer already had some amazing deals at the time. Tira hopped onto a web chat with a salesman and managed to get bargain with him to get an incredibly cheaper monthly cost (it was already a promotion!).

My guess is that it's a very tight business and they were desperate for business. With a little bit of bargaining you can get really good deals ^^

[Yukino]

At HiddenDragon: Awesome . Good job to the Admins with that deal.

It took me a while to find a good deal as well. I was deciding between SIP and Frantech until someone from RBHosting helped me. We pay half of what we need to pay SIP and Frantech, and we get many free services as well <3. I'm just grateful to the hosting company even though our population isn't as high as we wanted yet. Only time will tell~

[HiddenDragon]

I'll give you an example  

Go here: http://softlayer.com/dedicated/

According to their page our server would cost (monthly):
$199 - Intel Xeon 3220 (2.4 GHz Quad core)
$50 - 4 GB DDR2 Ram
$0 - 2000 GB bandwidth
$10 - 100 Mbps Uplink
Total: $260 /month

Guess what our monthly bill is? $180. We saved $80 a month (roughly one THIRD). Given that we've been with them for 11 months, we saved $880. Wowzors!

Their service is pretty good. Only 1 day of downtime since.

[FrEeDoMe]

I pay $68 for the following server and I can't complain.

- i7-920 Quad-Core
- 8 GB DDR3 RAM
- 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD
- 1 Gbit onboard with 100Mbit Uplink
- 3 TB @ 100Mbit per Month, after that 10Mbit

[Peter]

I pay ~$350 (CAD) a month for my 100mbit internet connection to my house. I have 2 machines for my RO server, and use approximately 500GB of bandwidth a month.