My mmorpg

[HolyPhoenix]

Yes, I am making an mmorpg using eclipse. So anyway, to use the server, I need to open my ports. Um... How dangerous is that really? I don't want a bunch of people hacking my computers and junk.

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

Re: My mmorpg

Yeah, good luck with that.

You're gonna need to use a computer and server specifically for your game. You absolutely cannot be using a regular personal computer.

[Translucid]

Re: My mmorpg

yeah, but luckily you can build your own server for (relatively) cheap. in fact, a budget of $200-$400 is ok for a small server.

[thetruecoolness]

Re: My mmorpg

Yeah I definitly would advise strongly against using your main computer for this. And depending on how complex it is I don't think just one computer will handle it if it ever takes off even slightly. But for testing, yeah get another computer you don't care about, and put linux on it, and learn how to secure it, and apache, and php (assuming you go the LAMP route).

[HolyPhoenix]

Re: My mmorpg

Lol, I just got my first job not long ago, so when I make some money I plan on buying a server. But until then I was stuck with this windows 2000 pentium 3. Luckily yesterday I saw this guy in the shoutboxs of a forum say that he had 5 slots for game servers, a=on a server made specifically for that purpose, and he was going to give it out for free to the first 5 people. I got in fast enough to get accepted. He didn't have alot of details about it, like the processor and stuff, but considering how the game ran on this computer, it should be fine. I probably won't have to many members anyway to worry about overloading and crashing it. I don't know if the other "slots" will be the same server though, but I imagine they will be. Hopefully it wil work out, atleast it should be better than running it from this one.