Being drunk pays off :3 #HardwareRelated

[Actinic Lux]

So i do not know how too code or anything, it take me 8 days too create the server bianaries for cmangos from source lol,
so all i have is hardware, i cannot code BUT i found someone last night on warmane onyxia who has experiance working on private servers? and can code?

so we partnered up

and i have gone crazy on hardware today,

I have 2 zen 2 dedi's atm each with 64gb ram, one has ecc for our database, both with quad nvme ssd's in raid 10, 1gbps upload, unlimited bandwith

i just purchased a 8 core vds, 32gb ram, 240gb ssd local disk, 30tb bandwith, 1gbps up. 1 primary ipv4 and i purchased 4 more ipv4's.

and i applied for a 7950x3d dedi with 256gb ddr5 ecc and quad 1tb nvme ssd's, 1gbps up / unlimited bandwith.

so my plan is

rock azerothcore using wotlk client but run all 3 vanilla / tbc / wotlk realms, use wotlk client too log into all 3, developer i partner with tell me it is easily possible.

We will run auth for all 3 realms on zen 2 dedi with no ecc

databases for all 3 realms on zen 2 dedi with ecc

world for all 3 realms on dedi with 7950x3d with script too dedicate certain cpu threads too certain world servers 2 keep things clean(i made a script like this for my cmangos server that dedicates certain cpu threads too world / auth so i know its possible)

run a watchdog script in the background so that if any world servers crash they get rebooted asap.

I promised my partner that he would never see any hosting fees, this is the difference between my servers and others, this is not for profit.

This Realm is my Legacy - A portal To a world that once was, know kept alive through passion and memory, Not Greed.​

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if anyone reading this post thinks that they can contribute please contact me, but my server will be the only server with no store and no donation button, we will keep it blizzlike just like it was in 2007 TBC , 2008 wotlk, and 2004 vanilla.​

 

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COOL, but there are costs associated with hardware and hosting onto a backbone with plenty of bandwidth for the many connections. Unless someone is wealthy and just pays for it all out of pocket and says free and no donations, no store, and no other mechanism of revenue to keep it running its all on the host to pay the costs that add up.

This kinda forces people to sandboxes and small private LAN Party play I feel as Electricity, Hardware, and a Connection to the outside world with enough bandwidth comes into play plus staying on top of security and updates to patch for problems etc. Sadly the Turtle WoW project drew attention that might be a domino effect for all wanting to host servers for people to join in on on the world wide web. And people will probably be forced to play in secret where its not affecting blizzard as a threat to their revenue.

Blizzard should really be reaching out to Turtle WoW to form a union with them to have a community edition WoW where custom community created content can ride as I checked out Turtle with their recent server added and it was amazing with quest content and other content that was added that is not original to Vanilla WoW that made the game more fun to play.

I have been playing WoW since 2005 and its awesome in every way. I never thought that someone could alter the map files to have areas that are what they are in Turtle WoW. And on top of this the fact that they got the Unreal Engine to work with an altered client is sweet but sadly all of us will probably never see it ever go live because its under attack to shut it down. If anything Blizzard should form a union with them and move their game to optional Unreal Engine play!