Registration and hosting services

[ME]

troy said:

> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:59:07PM -0800, ME wrote:
>> The best deal I found for my money as a hobbiest was $105/month for any
>> 1U
>> system with 40GB/40GB per month. It is a small company, and they are
>> notshooting for 5-nines, let alone 3-nines uptime, but they work for
>> me.(They have other restrictions: no porn, no irc servers, no 3d game
>> servers (quake, RtCW), etc., but I dont need those on my server.)
>
> Speak, man!  Name names!

johncompanies

> Curious, Why do you think they'd care about gameservers, if you're being
> billed with a 40GB/month cap?  People (or whatever you call them) aren't
> DoS'ing game servers these days are they?

Yes they are. The company wants to avoid servers that could draw crackers
and attackers. Cheaters in 3d games online can get banned from games, but
then go dl scripts to destroy the game or use DDoS against servers.