Why? Bandwidth is extremely expensive. I rented a server from Server Pronto for what I thought would be a bargain at 29.95/month. This was supposed to have entitled me to a box with 1.5gHZ cpu, 256mb of ram and 200GB of bandwidth. I was thinking the bandwidth would be more than enough to run an average bzflag server. I was wrong. I have only had it operational for a little over 10 days and have already gone far over the bandwidth limit (by about another 200GB). They charge at about 1$ per GB over the limit which I absolutely cannot afford. Guess I should have read the fine print, eh?
I have a great job and make more money than I should but not near enough to do this. Also, no one that I've talked to is willing to even chip in 1, 5, 10$ per month to help with bandwidth costs. I understand that no one should be forced to donate, but this is more than what one person can handle as far as costs. Maybe you guys can contact George Soros (his money would better support BZFlag rather than socialist Democrats IMO) or Mark Shuttlesworth to become a BZFlag benefactor. Nonetheless, this is my fault and not any individual bzflagger other than myself.
For the time being, I will host on my home network but it will be set up for low-laggers only (300ms or less lag). I look forward to playing with many of you where possible but this does hamper my faith in open projects that require real and tangible services where only a tiny bit of the population are actually contributing and the rest are only contributing by playing and using alone (disclaimer: not that there's anything wrong with that .
). At any rate, I hope I can find a fair and equitable deal from hosting companies in the near future for this sort of thing. If any of you have suggestions about certain companies or deals, please let me know about them.Thanks,
Harlin Seritt
If any of you are serious about helping me running a bzflag server that we can all call home (unless we find another one like hepcat heh), then take a look at this link and respond if it moves you: 
