Buying a Dedicated Server/Selling Slots

BeatMaster · 7 Jul 2006 at 22:00

My brother is about to spend £160 for 2 dedicated servers supporting a 160 slots each. He's planning on selling them to counterstrike people and reckons he can make a profit :confused:

Is he making a big mistake or can it be done?

Your help is appreciated before he squanders money...

BeatMaster

m4cc45 · 7 Jul 2006 at 22:02

Depends on the specifications and internet connection - nobody will pay for a slow, laggy server.

And also he's got to somehow prove using his servers will be better than the free public ones which may be hard work.

Teamspeak may be a better way as cheap servers are in demand where as game servers aren't...

M

BeatMaster · 7 Jul 2006 at 22:09

CPU Intel P4 Dual Core 3.2Ghz
Ram 2048MB (PC3200)
Disk 80GB (SATA2, 7200 RPM, 2MB Cache)
Bandwith Unlimited (100MB/S XFER)

Not sure if it'll be any good or what have you, I think he's making a mistake and squandering £160....when he'll learn I'll never know

BeatMaster

willthepirate · 7 Jul 2006 at 22:12

also depends on the slot costs, and weather people will realise they are paying for a server full of inactive people, LANGUAGE! people or those annoying people who are just insanely good (awp)

VeNT · 7 Jul 2006 at 22:14

don't swear

DaveyD · 8 Jul 2006 at 11:44

A system like that should be able to support a reasonable amount of players and servers running off it, but if he oversells and over fills the server, people will end up getting horrible loss/reg/pings in game, and therefore will take their money elsewhere, which I have done many times in the past.

William · 8 Jul 2006 at 11:55

Me and mate looked into it once, it looked like a lot of hard work for very little gain. We both decided working on minimum wage would give a better return per hour.