27 Jan 14, 12:32AM
(This post was last modified: 27 Jan 14, 01:02AM by RandumKiwi.)
(26 Jan 14, 09:05PM)Ethiixx Wrote:(26 Jan 14, 08:38PM)Ronald_Reagan Wrote: They [kiwi.ac servers] were up like a half year ago?
Didnt play much back then so I didnt know when they went down, any reason why they did?
I used to own and operate the kiwi.ac AssaultCube servers. I closed them, because for the same/lesser price, I could host just as good a server in USA, that people would actually play on.
It's too bad, because I had a really, really good deal on a VPS in NZ, which I lost by going elsewhere (it was a grandfathered offer). I was paying about $33/mth to have 300GB bandwidth (10gb HDD/256MB RAM), in a high-quality datacentre on the North Shore (closest to USA links).
NOTE: Bandwidth in NZ is really expensive... that same data centre, would charge me $112.50/mth (though, they used to charge at about $300/mth) at todays rates...
I've replaced the servers with http://gibbed.me - I had researched carefully for the *BEST* server available in US, that from NZ/Aus, would give:
* The lowest pings.
* The most reliable packet delivery.
* The least ping hops.
* 10GbE or better (anything less is a joke).
This is why my servers are now hosted in Freemont, CA (and not in say, San Fran/LA... or worse, Dallas/NY/etc).