Servers: Huge price reduction

[WalkerDown (DayZ) 296]

I must admit i didn't know that BIS were working on native linux server.. well, this change the whole thing, first: they costs A WAY less than windows servers (to rent); second: they are widely available everywhere. This could lead to reduce the current prices even more: the verage is around $30/mo for a virtual and likely $250 for a good dedi; on a linux machine you may have $20 for a virtual and around $100 for a dedicate machine (with the hardware capable of running Arma/DayZ of course).

None of the current major hosts have tried it yet?

[ersan 219]

There is no price difference between windows and linux on the servers we use.

The base price of a windows 2008 R2 vlk is like $2 a month, which is negligible.

Edited January 10, 2013 by ersan191

[anthony_henson2003@yahoo.com 33]

Same for us. Windows usually cost about $10 extra/mo sometimes less. Its really not as much as people tend to believe.

[WalkerDown (DayZ) 296]

If you rent the exact same hardware .. it has the same cost. The hardware is not dependant by the OS (well.. it is.. but the difference is minimal on large scale). That's why i specified: "with the hardware capable of running Arma/DayZ" ... what i mean is that possibily (because of the OS and optimization) you may be able to run +50% instances on the same spec machine (or the same number of instances on less pricey hardware), and this will give you automagically a 50% price reduction. That's just an assumption coz i didn't tried it, so i dunno if there's really a difference in resource usage, but in my experience any game server i tested before (available on both linux/windows OS) was much less resources expensive on linux. To not consider the fact that process virtualization is much smoother on linux than having multiple "tasks" running under windows.

I'm optimistic! :)