13-12-2007, 05:32 PM
Read the TOS always before ordering anything, Over here at Speed-Frag we don't over sell. Dedicated servers starting at $110, and VPS will soon be up and going(Starting at $15.99). And since we are dedicated to gaming we promise great ping rates and True %99.9 Uptime in less an act of god or a scheduled maintenance comes along. There is such thing as Unmetered basically they just don't watch your in and out connections. And its open to a certain point a 10mbps Unmetered is usually like 4gb/month in traffic. No I am not trying to sell you on anything nor am I trying to hijack your post but just a few useful tips. But really running a game server(IE. CS:S or your own MIRAGE BASED SERVER) takes up and down rates which = your monthly charge. CS:S at 32 players only runs me about 250-400gb per month. (Including when people aren't in server etc) With bandwidth it is alright to oversell because, in less someone uses upto there amount there is allot of leeway. But as long as the server has control of there bandwidth flow and can burst if they need to all users shall be fine. Go with a company who knows what there doing and doesn't charge some ridiculously low price. Support/Security/Speed are key the three s's of the industry.
btw Speed-Frag is still under development, integrating the Control Panels with billing and support is time consuming. But I want to get it right the first time!
~bpendz
EDIT. PS. You dont own a server, in less you co locate you don't own it. You lease it, your a server "Leasing" Company. You only own the software/data that you hold on the server. But I know dave knows that I was just making it clear to the original poster. My tos explains you do not own the server we do, we manage it, we take care of it in case you mess something up. Kind of like leasing a car, you pay a month for it, you have it you can basically do what you want for it, you break it we fix it we charge. Ahh things in this industry get so confusing to some people who are starting out.
btw Speed-Frag is still under development, integrating the Control Panels with billing and support is time consuming. But I want to get it right the first time!
~bpendz
EDIT. PS. You dont own a server, in less you co locate you don't own it. You lease it, your a server "Leasing" Company. You only own the software/data that you hold on the server. But I know dave knows that I was just making it clear to the original poster. My tos explains you do not own the server we do, we manage it, we take care of it in case you mess something up. Kind of like leasing a car, you pay a month for it, you have it you can basically do what you want for it, you break it we fix it we charge. Ahh things in this industry get so confusing to some people who are starting out.