I'm curious as how server owners find a good place to host their bzflag servers. Naturally, I'm sure that some already have high-speed always-on connections worthy of hosting a server on, but I'm sure that the vast majority of us don't. Do you guys rent shared space? Find a business/school/person that will donate bandwidth? Is there some reasonably-priced/free place online that you guys host your servers on?
Gnurdux has been kind enough to let me run my Tunnels map on his personal computer, but with 10-15 players on regularly (over the last few days), I think I'm straining his bandwidth (I think it's only about 384k up). I'm trying to think of some other place to host my map.
Ideally, I'd want an ssh account and about 200MB of disk space (for the binaries, logs, configuration files, web interface, etc.). I'd need a port for the server and would want web access (I use an online log reader). I'd probably want at least a 1MB up/down connection. I could conceivably rent space/bandwidth where such services are provided online, but as a college student I wouldn't really be able to support that kind of thing (and even if I could, I don't know that the high price would be worth it just for a bzflag server).
Less-than-ideally, maybe I could just find someone to host my map on another port on their existing server or in their rotation.
I'm curious to hear how you guys do it. In the case that there's actually someone out there who would be willing to provide hosting for this server setup, I would, of course, be very happy to give them admin/owner privileges.
I'm not expecting that, but I would be very happy to hear any suggestions for how I should pursue finding a place.
