The game design is as complete as it ever will be at 230+ pages, written using "Wiki on a Stick", my favorite single file wiki. Though I was recently playing with tiddlywiki which might tempt me to jump ship as it seems better maintained than woas and looks cooler. Anyway my fellow co-conspirator Mick the artist is beavering away at the game graphics and I'm starting on the database design and then writing the C# code. To recap this is a serious attempt at a successful multi-player game for Facebook, with up to 10,000 players per game.
One thing still remains though and that's what type of server hosting should it use? In the blue corner there are clouds- people like Mosso.com or Amazon EC2 and in the red, a good old fashioned dedicated server costing around $150 a month. Oh and did I mention the GUI will be Silverlight 2 (Probably 3 by the time it's ready)? The problem is cost. With a dedicated server if it gets too busy, well your bill is capped at the limit. With cloud computing the sky's the limit! If anyone has any comments, or experience in this area or even recommendations I'd love to hear them. Techy stuff is relatively easy but the non-techy stuff is scary!
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Helpful article. We are a web design company currently on Windows servers but we are wanting to move towards a LAMP setup. We are currently assessing the pro’s and con’s of a dedicated Linux server or Cloud Hosting. Veering towards Cloud for the lower monthly costs and we don’t have enough LAMP projects yet to justify a dedicated server. Sharing the dithering!