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Jediservers said they were switching to Xeon servers so unless Elucid has better, id say go with the place that has servers w/ CPUs made for serving.

The dedicated option at Elucid shows a 1.7Ghz P4. Now that is just for dedicated but if the standard servers are on similar boxes. Might be ok but then...its just a P4. Dual G4s at half speed can pretty much whoop those .

If Jedi servers was still gonna be on Celeron boxes id be very heavily leaning towards Elucid but with them updating to Xeon, tougher choice.

I've also started conducting an informal poll of clans already using the jediservers.com people, and they all have only good things to say. since we're paying a monthly fee anyway, does it stand to reason if we're unhappy at any point, we can simply change companies? (Well, with the additional hassle of re-loading any mods, skins, maps, etc.)

It may take JS a few more days to setup since it sounds like they've been overwhelmed with response, but it's not like we're all on 24/7 right now anyway.

ok, there wernt many votes for jediservers, but those that we got are unanimous, and people have expressed their approval for that in various threads.

if you have any problems with them speak now or forever hold your peace!

I havent voted cause im waiting to hear for sure if Jediservers is Xeon based. Also to waiting to see if Chewie finds out what servers Elucid is on. So until those are posted, i'm holding back a vote.

Wow Dual Xeons, thats even better than i first thought. Hopefully its true cause if so, then my vote goes to Jedi.

Well, I spent some time strolling around both sites, and I voted for JediServers.

Factors that entered my decision-making were: Xeon servers (web page says so, not "confirmed", but it's good enough to try it, I think), the fact that they only do JKII, and their prices, lack of setup fee (though Euclid did say they could waive it).  I say we at least try it.  It's too bad they don't have space for a web site, but then again we do have this forum.  And they don't have as much FTP space, but maybe we won't need as much.  We can concentrate on skins, maybe, and a few mods people must have.  I'm not a big mod guy, so that's not as important to me.  Skins, though, we gots to have enough skins, yo.

Seems worth a shot, and, as was mentioned, if we don't like it, we can shop around more.

As for paying, my new job starts on 1 Sept, so until then, it'll be a little hard to contribute.  Well, maybe, anyway, I guess a lot depends on how much we're looking at for each person.

Im in for Jediservers too with my vote.

Ya know, if we could swing it. A 16 person would be nice. Its only $5 more than a 12 person. But if not then lets try for the 12 person server. 12 person would still be 6 on 6. Thats really all that would be needed for the moment.

Subject : RE: Server Upgrade Complete?
Posted : 2003-07-07  10:52 PM
Post #128 - In reply to #126

We are indeed running Dual Xeon servers for all games, and have been for about two weeks now.

Astyanax

That settles that!

I agree with bird, maybe start another thread about prefs for maps, skins, type of admin mod (I know there are several, dunno what they all do) and gametypes. Oh, and of course the player limit thing too.

You know, $5/mo. just isn't that bad.  I can probably still do it before the job kicks in.

Rotating maps is a good idea, but rotating game types can be bad if everyone's all into a certain game type and then it switches.  But I guess as long as voting's on, it wouldn't be so bad.  I presume mods can change gametypes without a vote.  I forget if one can vote on Force power level and the like.  Plus, there may be times when we'd like to disable only certain guns, or certain force powers.  I know that I often like duels where only saber powers and jump are on, maybe sometimes we'd like to experiment with it.  Well, I guess that's what admins are for.

I'm rambling.  Where do I send the check? 

(I know, I know ... soon, young padawan, soon ... )