Help please.

So me and a friend want to start our own CO PS project. Basically he's taking college courses for programming and I want to learn it myself. But we want to start looking for things first. Like website domains, servers and etc.. What safe website domains and servers would you guys recommend. Prefer something safe and cheap. It's just a small project, we barely know crap about programming or coding YET. But we want to learn and start off with a small project first. So what do you guys recommend and give me a brief review. US recommend. Thanks in advance.

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Should I possibly use my own computer to host it and see what sup? Or its a bad idea since, it's a threat from hackers? My wifi is 65mbps and it's a desktop that can be online for quite sometime.

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Thanks for reply. Would also like to know from experience. It's a VPS of 1gb going to stabilize like maybe 50 players daily? By that I mean steady ping. And at what level should a dedicated server be use. Like 100+ players?

For 100 players you should get minimum 4GB RAM with a 1GB port connectivity. Lags and crashes mainly depends of your source stability.

Should I possibly use my own computer to host it and see what sup? Or its a bad idea since, it's a threat from hackers? My wifi is 65mbps and it's a desktop that can be online for quite sometime.

If you're doing it solely for you and your friends to begin working with, your own host should be fine. People COULD ddos your network, but it's highly unlikely if you're just doing this for learning purposes. The community isn't necessarily big anymore and to pull in 100 constant players - you'd have to something pretty innovative and custom to attract that many.

Well, I'm going to put it out there like any other server and xtrmetop100. But state it as beta phase. Again thanks for replies guys. I don't mind you guys posting informative links on coding private server and stuff I should/need to know as well.

In the current server market you're lucky to get 10 players online at a time. No reason to pay for hosting assuming your home connection is in any way decent (5-10mbit upload speed minimum)

Going to give it a try with ur redux source :D

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Originally Posted by killermale123 Going to give it a try with ur redux source :D

I'd rather not. Stackoverflows are a bitch even if you know how to code.

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Originally Posted by Xio. I'd rather not. Stackoverflows are a bitch even if you know how to code.

There should not be any stack overflow issues in the 3.0 release. The was one tracked down in the recent public testing and it is fixed. There's the possibility that there's other crash based issues in the source if hosted for a large enough population but at the end of the day it won't matter if he's using it for a home host test server and to familiarize himself with conquer servers.

Again, there's plenty of great sources out there and nothing forcing him to use mine but as far as I'm aware the stackoverflow issue has been corrected.

So any other basic sources out there for me to work on and get experience from?