I havn't really got a clue how to use amazon but I will try to look into that it seems many people suggest it. But I've had a hard time believing they would have competitive pricing. Some say Virtualization is overpriced alot.<div>
<br></div><div>My hardware profile will be that I want 8-20 gigs of ram a 40 gig harddrive possibly 100 and a decent 64bit processor. Thats about all i need minecraft servers are fairly monolithic and seeing as my server regularly hosts 50 or so people the requirements are fairly strenuous. Minecraft is a game written in java...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:03 AM, John Van Ostrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca" target="_blank" class="vt-p">john@netdirect.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Colo is a great idea if you need something monolithic that can't be clustered or load balanced or requires some special hardware. I can tell you that I would colo that box for more than what Amazon AWS might be. </blockquote>
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