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[Ossi3367]

Where is this website hosted or are they self hosting it?

[LogicalDrm]

Forums are hosted in datacenter located somewhere in Canada. LMG doesn't host external services from their office. IIRC even Minecraft was moved to external location.

[ElectroBrocoli]

3 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

Forums are hosted in datacenter located somewhere in Canada. LMG doesn't host external services from their office. IIRC even Minecraft was moved to external location.

imagine paying the entire building electricity bill with that much machine

[Sir Asvald]

15 minutes ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

imagine paying the entire building electricity bill with that much machine

? what ?

[ElectroBrocoli]

3 minutes ago, Sir Asvald said:

? what ?

imagine paying the electricity bill of LMG's building if they have this forums and minecraft server there

[Sir Asvald]

Just now, ElectroBrocoli said:

imagine paying the electricity bill of LMG's building if they have this forums and minecraft server there

You do know they have other servers at the office? plus the amount of PCs they have as well. Having an additional 2 servers wont make a difference.

[ElectroBrocoli]

1 minute ago, Sir Asvald said:

You do know they have other servers at the office? plus the amount of PCs they have as well. Having an additional 2 servers wont make a difference.

well if they had the buildings in my country that would make a significant different so freakin much

[Ashleyyyy]

29 minutes ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

imagine paying the entire building electricity bill with that much machine

the forum doesn't have many users at once, it could probably be hosted on a pretty low spec machine. just needs loads of storage. 

[Sir Asvald]

Just now, Ashley xD said:

the forum doesn't have many users at once, it could probably be hosted on a pretty low spec machine. just needs loads of storage. 

 

 

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[Ashleyyyy]

9 minutes ago, Sir Asvald said:

 

 

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that's not actually that many, and that's a record.

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

well if they had the buildings in my country that would make a significant different so freakin much

Adding couple more dedicated servers to their server room wouldn't make significant impact. Not even for networking since they are on fiber. The reason is security and maintenance.

[danomicar]

Yeah they're just hosted on the forum software's hosting platform. They likely just pay a monthly fee and the forum hosting and maintenance is taken care of. No reason for a media company to be hosting a forum on site. 

[LogicalDrm]

12 hours ago, danomicar said:

Yeah they're just hosted on the forum software's hosting platform. They likely just pay a monthly fee and the forum hosting and maintenance is taken care of. No reason for a media company to be hosting a forum on site. 

No... AFAIK this is incorrect. I don't know where or which provider forums are on, but AFAIK IPS doesn't provide platform, just software suite to be installed.