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1/22/2016 8:44:05 AM
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I love how people think that Bungie would only need a couple of thousand of these types of systems in order to run dedicated servers.
First you need the hardware, now let me give you a example my pc clan runs our own Battlefield 4 servers and that is a cost each year of around £500 to £1000 and that is for one server box.
From that cost, the hosting company has to provide the hardware, rack space, internet, backup internet, electric, backup power, air con, software licenses, maintenance staff and staff to deal with updating the master server with game updates that can then be installed on the smaller server boxes.
It's not just a case of buying pc server hardware and there you go, you need a lot more and before people start posting stuff how about doing a little research before you post and make yourselves sound like little kids.
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Funny, eso manages just fine, they give me dedicated servers, their game cost me less than $40 aust, bungle has taken $170 and gives me the crappiest p2p I have ever seen. There is something very wrong with that hmmmm?
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I get what you're saying here but we are talking about an activision/bungie alliance. I would think with their resources, this would be a cake walk.
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Unless they run there own server hosting company or build there own data centers it would help but if they don't then they would still have to rent server rack space etc in order to run dedicated servers for the games.
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There is this thing in 2016 called the cloud. Less hardware, more servers, easier to use, cheaper to run, and other businesses offer them at very good prices. Using your own experience as a back end consumer is ridiculous in of itself. You pay way more than it actually costs.
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Cloud servers unless designed for game hosting, are not capable of dealing with hosting games. Believe me I have more experience with this than most because of what I use to do for a living, which was planning National Broadband Connections, International Broadband Connections, Data Center connections, Residential TV, Phone, Broadband and Mobile Phone connections. I would plan Internet Connections of speeds of upwards of 10GBp/s, putting servers in to data centers and even planning what hardware would be required for a data center to meet the demand of not only VOD servers but Game Servers. As it goes if I had the roughly £10 Million Pounds to build and run a data center for 2 years in order to build up a customer base in order to start making a profit then I would do it but I don't have that sort of money. One of the last jobs I did before I lost my job due to illness was planning 20 10GBp/s connections in to a brand new data center that cost over £2 Million Pounds to build the building and get the Utilities installed in the building. Running Dedicated Servers is just not a case of choosing the right hardware there is alot more involved.
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The cloud is ok for certain things, but it is not the answer here. And no matter how reliable MS / Amazon etc say thier cloud solution is, it isn't. They still go down regularly!
