I have always wondered why they rush so much. I've run private servers for games that would certainly handle 25 users on a bargain-basement VM. I've got some running now that really only see 2 or 3 people on a $30 a year VM. You could scale that to handle 25 users easily for $10 a month. I really don't do any maintenance, honestly haven't even played on in a while. I mean what are they going to do, hack it? It might get your game more players from the attention--let them.
I've done similar. We ran a 15-player game server off some old hardware I gave to a guy to literally put in his basement, and a couple of us just VNC'd in to it whenever something needed to be done. Ran a couple of concurrent games, not even bothering with VNs VMs or anything.
I have always wondered why they rush so much. I've run private servers for games that would certainly handle 25 users on a bargain-basement VM. I've got some running now that really only see 2 or 3 people on a $30 a year VM. You could scale that to handle 25 users easily for $10 a month. I really don't do any maintenance, honestly haven't even played on in a while. I mean what are they going to do, hack it? It might get your game more players from the attention--let them.
I've done similar. We ran a 15-player game server off some old hardware I gave to a guy to literally put in his basement, and a couple of us just VNC'd in to it whenever something needed to be done. Ran a couple of concurrent games, not even bothering with
VNsVMs or anything.