We had good reasons to shut it down. We don't want to host low quality stuff, so we chose not to host anything at all rather than hosting crap (like all other 9001 private servers out there now, with expection of few)
We didn't really launch our emulator, it was just an open beta test to see how it performed under a huge load, and the test was fairly successful in terms of feedback. Everybody knew it was just a test and nobody except a few have ever seen the newest zelos emu.
Anyway when we got our hands on the files, we decided to make a vsro server and then switching over to the emulator when it was completely finished, but then the files got released publicly and people started joining high-rate servers, there was simply no place for zelos anymore.
OT: There is no 'best' country, you need to choose between security, availability and performance. If you want the safest country it would probably be something like middle of Africa, or random Asian country, but the network performance isn't very good there, on the other hand if you'd host it in a country with a rather good network like Germany, France or the US it will be less safer for the server and especially the hoster legal-wise.
*sniff,sniff* I smell some kind of an bullshit in the air. Still,I am not likely to get convinced you guys were that retarded/naive to host such a low rated server. You weren't the first one who opened a server to use low rates as excuse that 'you didn't expect it coming'. You knew that you will fail because of such a time waste rates and well,team doesn't matter here. Rates and GM activity is what matters,although people still care more about the rates.
@As for the post above... my fucking god which doesn't even exist ;O You must be mad. To zadupie? Prosze cie oO
Russia theres no copyright laws and if you dont sell silk your safe. change silk to something like cookies or sell forum subscriptions with in-game rewards like silk(renamed to something else). Thats a way around being sued. ECSRO.net and goldsold.pl were only sued for selling silk and changing copyright from joymax.LTD to ECSRO copyrights not for having a server opened.
Well I would suggest you to host your server on Russia, since they're not supporting Copyright laws.
It's a bit higher price but if you wont get shutted down every single week / month then do it.
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