Any plans for an "official" hosting server?

[Arralen]

DominionsFan said:
Hm actually I might make available my laptop as a server, since I don't use it too much anymore, and it is a good one with 1 GB RAM. If it will be needed I will make it available for sure.

@Dominionsfan
That's a very nice and generous offer, but don't do that. Notebooks are not made to run 24/7, even less so than Desktop PC.

@everyone
But even a 5-year-old low-level server (P3, 0,5-1GB RAM, 10-20GB HDD space) should be able to run 25 TCP/IP games and a nearly unlimited number of email games, if the resolution of random maps is heavily restricted. Otherwise the random maps alone would eat up the disk space fast. Maybe there should be an option to save the map for later use?

And I know I'm repeating myself over and over, but if you're looking into email-hosting I would strongly suggest you check out the Stars! Autohost Site. Their autohoster is running for about 10 years now I guess, so their script can be considered pretty matured. And some years ago, when the game was more popular, they had several hundred games running simultaniously, not only the meagre 52 they have now.