Can all 200 pound servers do game hosting?

[Ajm113]

Ok, I have this friend that is giving me a server that is 200 pounds of data and wires. I was thinking on what to do with it So can all servers do game hosting? I want a pay for itself thing. But I was thinking on doing game hosting. I want to get back at the people that charge you a lot to host a small game. So what would I be looking at to do this? If all of them can't?

[RedSon]

Ok, I have this friend that is giving me a server that is 200 pounds of data and wires. I was thinking on what to do with it So can all servers do game hosting? I want a pay for itself thing. But I was thinking on doing game hosting. I want to get back at the people that charge you a lot to host a small game. So what would I be looking at to do this? If all of them can't?

I'm not sure what you are talking about. But if I gave you 200 pounds of cement it wouldn't host a piece of bread let alone an entire game, so saying that you have 200 pounds of data and wires doesn't mean a thing. All computers can act as either servers or hosts, you don't have to have a special piece of equipment to host things. If you want to do game hosting, it sounds like a fun time, you are going to need very powerful equipment to get any business, expect to be spending about $100k a year if you dead serious about making a great game server.

[Ajm113]

I hope you mean as 100k as not American money. But I know what you can use to host anything on the internet. I was not sure for the fact if something that you use that web hosters use can support a game online.

[RedSon]

I hope you mean as 100k as not American money. But I know what you can use to host anything on the internet. I was not sure for the fact if something that you use that web hosters use can support a game online.

Uh, yea, I meant $100,000 dollars. Servers and bandwidth for companies that host games are probably the most expensive kind of servers to run. You need the fastest computers with the fattest pipes to the internet if you expect people to come to your game hosting. Gamers want FPS and if you are not running bleeding edge dual quad core xenons with corsair overclocked ram and hotswappable RAID NAS boxes you are going to be far behind the competition.

On the other hand if you just want to host a game with you and a couple of your friends then just a regular home computer will work just fine.