Amazon EC2

[kalyse]

Has anyone ever been temped to host on Amazon EC2.

I am completely out of the game now, however I work with EC2 now daily with some new projects of mine and I would be genuinely tempted to refactor my entire business model to something which complements EC2 if I was still under the pressures of game server hosting.

 

Virginia, California and Ireland... not exactly every corner of the world, but it should definatley be sufficient to uphold a legitmate position for cloud hosting. After the 5th sale (on my total guestimation) you would be in profit, which is already earlier than colocated or owned services.

 

Something to consider?

 

I was in the game for three years, and if I was to continue based on the cloud, I would manage it by selling server time. Something similar to World of Warcraft parental control settings. Where you can only play based on the time which you select. For instance. You could sell 10 hours server time for 3GBP. The slot count doesn't really matter in my opinion, since most people would be just for matches.

 

Anyway, just my considerations.

If TCAdmin has a good API for version 2 (something which is extremely flexible) it could tempt people to do something like this.

[cissam]

Where you can only play based on the time which you select. For instance. You could sell 10 hours server time for 3GBP.

 

Selling servers based on hours would magic! Then you can reach the average teenager.

[dimitrifrom31]

Selling servers based on hours would magic! Then you can reach the average teenager.

 

that is possible, im selling a guide to rent servers during slack hours, you can set those hours to anything you want.

 

I personaly got it set from 5am to 5pm then server shuts down at 5:01pm and cant be started until next day 5am (it gets autostarted at that hour).