Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Minetest server [was: Gaming Collective: Hosted server]

[Mark Holmquist]

> Mark: we're going to need a proper package built of the version that
> you're running. Which Linux distro are you running? Are there pre-built
> development packages or is there an easy way to automate this? I notice
> that there's a Windows version and there are Ubuntu and Arch development
> packages in the downloads section of the website. Are those version
> behind your development version?

Thanks for the reply, Rudolf! I'm running the testing repos for Debian 
GNU/Linux on the server. I've never worried about packaging, but I'm 
sure there are packages for 0.3 releases, though probably not for the 
latest versions, which have a lot more features and a modding API.

The website has downloads for "stable", 0.3, and "dev", 0.4. I run the 
bleeding edge from the git repository, and it's almost always behaved.

> You need that much hardware just to handle ~20 connections? How much latency 
> are you experiencing with that setup and is it possible to use clusters/cloud 
> hosting to host this?

I haven't done a lot of testing from external connections, but the 20 
connections was my lower bound for absolute confidence--I'm pretty sure 
you could do upwards of 30 on the hardware I specified, which is quite a 
lot.

> What's the cost of the setup? What's the cost of bandwidth?

The hardware is an old throwaway from my family, so it was 0 for me, and 
I'm running it on my home network, so there's zero additional cost for 
bandwidth. Probably draws a bit of extra power, but the same hardware 
runs my website, so it would be up anyway.

I'm not sure about numbers, nor am I sure about how to go about 
soliciting donations. I suspect that the FSF has a good way to do it 
already set up.

Cheers,

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Mark Holmquist
Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur@member.fsf.org
http://marktraceur.info