ID:259660
 Aug 23 2003, 11:31 pm
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Would i be able to host be game off my website somehow. Its a free AOL hometown page, and AOL hosts it, so i was wondering if i could host my game using the server address or something, because so far all the hosts i've asked don't want to or they promise a 24/7 server and give me about a 0.30/1 server.
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"so far all the hosts i've asked don't want to or they promise a 24/7 server and give me about a 0.30/1 server." Heh. Mind if I add that to my site's random quotes? =) | |
sure go ahead.
anyway back to topic... I was in a rush when i posted that message, what i meant to say was is there anyway in hosting the game from the http:// server, or if not whether i could put the zip file of the game into the storage of the web-site and change the games download url to that. I hope that doesn't sound confusing for you (like it does for me X-P) -~Evil Guy~- | |
Unless you can somehow convince AOL to install BYOND on their servers and make a special point of running DreamDaemon 24/7, just for you... good luck, you'll need it. =D
You're better off checking of digitalBYOND's services, when they (eventually) get back up.
Or, if you have a decent internet connection, just host it yourself. (Don't bother hosting on dial-up though, it's not worth it; dialup is slow and drops out all the time.) If you don't want to (or can't) use your current computer(s) to host, grab yourself a cheap 200MHz box and put Linux on it. Set it up so that you can Secure Shell (SSH) to it over your LAN (hopefully you have a LAN already; add the price of a router and a few Ethernet cards). Then stick it in a corner somewhere, give it permanent internet access, and manage it using SSH. It'd be a little complicated to set up (depending on what you have already), but it'd be worth it.