Question

[Admin-Nation-Servers]

What OS do you guys recommend

 

EX:

 

For 2003 OS

 

Enterprise

b/c->Cost effective etc.

 

For 2008

 

Standard

b/c-> Looks nice

[pjdaley]

2008 for stability, quickness, features, robustness, HPET, 1000fps, etc...

 

I think the benifits of 2008 will out weigh 2003 anyday.

 

You only need the enterprise versions if you are going to be using like 1TB of ram, or clustering, other than that it is wasting your money.

[trancemode]

i use Window 2K8 enteprise and standard.

 

Its free if your a college or university student or a teacher.

[Dan M]

i use Window 2K8 enteprise and standard.

 

Its free if your a college or university student or a teacher.

Is that for hosting gameservers? I'm pretty sure that isn't allowed in a commercial environment?

[pjdaley]

nope, if you look at the agreement you clicked when installing, the Windows XP/Vista/2008/Office 2007 must be UNINSTALLED when you are DONE with school.

 

That is in the license agreement :/

[zebgames]

Depends on the college. The college my wife went to allowed you to keep using the software as long as you graduated from there.

[pjdaley]

It isn't up to the college, its up to Microsoft. All EDUCATIONAL licenses must be removed from your machine after school. If she had an open license provided through the school, then that is different. I highly doubt that they gave her a open license on a personal computer, that would be illegal.

[Dan M]

nope, if you look at the agreement you clicked when installing, the Windows XP/Vista/2008/Office 2007 must be UNINSTALLED when you are DONE with school.

 

That is in the license agreement :/

Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services.

I've looked at the TOS. I'm not starting this into a flame-thread; I just don't want a fellow GSP evading the costs when we have to pay for licenses.

[pjdaley]

Awesome, then I am wrong, and they have recently changed the license agreement

[Admin-Nation-Servers]

Just bought server 2008 standard I love it , has not crashed once, same with game servers.

[KingJ]

Apologies for hijacking the thread, but do any of you know a good source of SPLA licences? My datacenter does not offer them, and I don't feel like paying full price.

[JasonF]

Windows 3.11

[swish]

Windows 3.11

 

Now...what kinda FPS can I hit with 3.11 Jason!

 

Im excited gunna load a box right now...time to bust out the 25 Floppy disks...lol

 

/end hi-jack

[JasonF]

I run 3.5" floppy's in RAID 0.

[ChrisOlver]

Apologies for hijacking the thread, but do any of you know a good source of SPLA licences? My datacenter does not offer them, and I don't feel like paying full price.

 

Your HP account manager should be able to sort you out or contact insight.. Been with them for nearly 4 years and they have hardly put a foot wrong (apart from the odd double charge )

[Admin-Nation-Servers]

Sorry for being off topic, can someone post the default security extensions for ftp here

 

ex: exe, dll .... etc

 

I was on another server and forgot to put it back :|

[ECF]

exe,com,dll,bat,cmd,vbs,pif,scr

[Admin-Nation-Servers]

Thank you ECF

[VicToMeyeZR]

Apologies for hijacking the thread, but do any of you know a good source of SPLA licences? My datacenter does not offer them, and I don't feel like paying full price.

 

I would use HP, highly recommended (even if I don't like their computers)