Hosting worlds on a "real" server

dazjorz · Post by **dazjorz** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:49 pm

I've been gone from this game for ages. Now I came back and I noticed Zaroba is running his world(s) (and possibly others, since I remember he was doing hosting for some other people as well, even for me at one point) on his home network.

Now I'd like to propose two things. First of all, I have a server (it's just a VPS, but it'll do) now on which I may host some The Universal worlds. Second, it's running Debian, so I'd like to opt in for becoming the Debian maintainer of the The Universal world server packages. (I'm still registered as a world owner.)

I'm wondering: How many resources does a world server need? Does it eat a lot of memory or something like that? If people are OK with paying one or two euro's a month (depending on the resources it needs) for hosting such a world server, I can do a few hardware upgrades if that's needed. Also in the end, if people like the idea, I may get a dedicated server hosting only The Universal world servers. What do you guys think?

Mishka · Post by **Mishka** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:17 pm

I'm wondering: How many resources does a world server need? Does it eat a lot of memory or something like that?

Not at all!

dazjorz · Post by **dazjorz** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:21 pm

I just noticed I couldn't try and find out myself, because the console server on Linux seems to be too old (glibc problems). Is DeVice still around to update and re-compile the packages or can I do that myself?

If I've got the sources, I could compile this into a nice Debian package which would set up the server with a simple dpkg -i theuniversal-server-0.nn.mm.deb...

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:24 pm

Sounds like a cool idea. Unless a world becomes really popular (more popular than any current world), I can't imagine hosting world would require a lot of bandwidth. I think most of the traffic ends up going to graphics file downloads.

Your sure TU's world server operates normally on Debian, right?

dazjorz · Post by **dazjorz** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:26 pm

fhko wrote:Your sure TU's world server operates normally on Debian, right?

Apart from that the current one seems to be too old, yeah. I'd need the sources to compile it, and since I heard mit is unavailable at the moment, who would I need to contact on this?

Mishka · Post by **Mishka** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:29 pm

dazjorz wrote:
fhko wrote:Your sure TU's world server operates normally on Debian, right?
Apart from that the current one seems to be too old, yeah. I'd need the sources to compile it, and since I heard mit is unavailable at the moment, who would I need to contact on this?

Mit is around. Avaibility.....don't really know.

dazjorz · Post by **dazjorz** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:00 pm

Ok, I've sent him an e-mail containing a link back to this topic, let's wait for his reply