Server spare..

[Gili]

So, well with my quiting of eveonline, i've managed to drop the various forums and killboards i use to host there. Now all i host on my server is a forum for my rp group which is very light in traffic and use. But that is pretty much all.

I've been thinking of late that i need to do more with it...but not much springs to mind. In the past i've toyed with various opensource game servers ( mekwars, being a good example ) but meh not sure what to do really.

So anyone got any cunning ideas for what to do with my spare linux server?

[Kaz]

How about setting up irc.monarchygame.com and mayeb even mail.monarchygame.com ??

[Gili]

Interesting ideas. I've not setup a mail server for many years. Did setup an IRC server a while back which seemed unnecessarily complicated but yeah i'll have a look at both.

[Kaz]

Infact, I could do with a safe secondary nameserver for my domains too. If you fancy stealing my DNS for a secondard, I'm more than happy to go with that too.

[Teanos]

Don't need mail, I already have that on this server.
I just have to enable it for Monarchygame.com. I plan on doing that soon.

IRC would be a good idea though, or even Ventrillo or Teamspeak. Being able to voicechat could be interesting.

[Kaz]

The mail thought was just to take some of the strain off this server when a game is actually running on it.

[Teanos]

I had already setup email on this server long before we moved the game here, so its already here I don't see the need to move it just yet. Plus I have my personal domain and stuff running off of it. I figure if we get to the point we need to move it, we can do it all at once then.

[Kaz]

Just spotted the voice chat suggestion.... thats a great idea for a spare server

[Gili]

Personally i much prefer Vent to TS...but Vent needs monies for over 8 people on it. I already have TS installed, so would take little effort to sort that out i guess.

[Teanos]

Yeah I like Vent over Teamspeak as well, but free is free is free!

I don't know what the bandwidth requirements are. But I have both programs, and love it.

[Venus]

i am not talking to u people over a voice thing

EVERY TIME i do someone makes fun of my accent!!

[Vox]

EVERY TIME i do someone makes fun of my accent!!

?????You sound normal ......or did at one time anyway.


It's other people that talk funny ;p

[Venus]

lol yeah but your from the south, so you talk normal to

those northerners make fun of me though!!!

its sad

plus my accent gets worse in direct proportion to how pissed off i am or any other emotion i feel lol

[Nagash]

We could use Skype for Voice Chats, couldn't we?

[Imo]

it'd be cool to have a voice chat

[Gerien]

We could use Skype for Voice Chats, couldn't we?

No. I use Skype for one on one conversations (can Skype even do mutlis?) and even then it occasionally gets wonky.

[edit]Apparently Skype does do conference calling. Never tried it, though.[/edit]

[Nagash]

If it gets wonky on 1-on-1 calls, then let's not even tempt fate by attempting larger scale ones.

[Teanos]

I'm not a huge fan of Skype. Used it when I played TW, and didn't care for the app.

Ventrillo or Teamspeak handles multiple people in a chat alot better.

[MoP]

I'm not a huge fan of Skype. Used it when I played TW, and didn't care for the app.

Ventrillo or Teamspeak handles multiple people in a chat alot better.

I'll second that!

[Gili]

After fucking about with a few irc server packages...I seem to have a standalone IRC server running, as well as the ability to register and recall nicks (I disabled memo ,mail and possibly a few other things )

I've never been a hardcore IRC type, but it all looks good to me from an end-user side of things. I'm also happy from a linux security perspective. However...

Anyone who knows what they are doing with IRC, when bored can you try connecting to eternalrising.net port 6667 and having a play to see if everything is there that you'd expect. Thanks muchly

If it proves decent & stable we can work at putting it under a monarchygame sub domain