[p0intman]

Originally Posted by bdzk

What makes you think Im involved in this spam paranoid?

I dont waste my time in no-important places, here is the answer
Im not angry with you, I have other feelings about you.

Be a smart a guy and answer my last question of resources to rent and sustent the server.

Serious answer:

Lets take other Emulator servers built to emulate other soe games. For example, lets take SWGEmu. SWGEmu's main servers can host 2-3k people at their current limits. Their most recent financial report is kind of interesting. SWGEmu is a nonprofit registered in the EU, and has a lot of overhead in support accounts due to possible legal action against them by Disney/LucasArts.

http://www.swgemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167467

What is even more interesting is that their biggest server cost seems to come from their deal with Softlayer, who are a cloud hosting company.

http://www.softlayer.com/

I don't anticipate PSF needing a cloud hosting company along the likes of Softlayer or any other similar cloud hosting services.

It is also known that SWGEmu's main datacenters are actually ran out of FDCServers.net. This only costs them a couple hundred dollars a month.

https://www.fdcservers.net/

Outside of that, their BIGGEST costs are paypal's fees and account feels from K&H Bank due to their dedicated account as a nonprofit.

As I don't anticipate SOE caring about us emulating PS1 (their baby is PS2) I don't really see us needing those overheads, which will reduce costs significantly. In theory, you could run a PS1 server out of a dedicated box if you live in an area with google fiber and have decent pops if enough people knew about it. I actually earn enough as a security guard to put up my own dedicated server even if I need to host it with a dedicated server host like FDC or Dreamhost or DigitalOcean or a similar service.