North American Server Quality

[greekdragonkdl]

My apologies regarding lag on the US servers. This is something we will monitor and see if we can find a solution or if we'll need to move server (again).

Yeah I was a bit disappointed that the host switch didn't seem to make much of a difference, but did some more research on that host, and seen various people say that their network isn't quite the best for gaming. I can't speak for their E3 lineup, which runs on a lower quality network than their E5 servers, but the E5s seem to do perfectly fine for things such as Minecraft servers, but these kind of games need a much higher quality and consistant connection and framerate. I feel a bit of the blame here for the shoddy performance as I did kind of recommend this host to Kip a few months back since it was so cheap and NI is on such a tight budget, but I was assuming the performance would be a bit more like their enterprise lineup, and it turns out that isn't the case.

Not sure how what the CPU and RAM usage of all the NA servers are, but if it isn't all that high it might make sense to even downgrade a bit to a lower CPU dedicated server if it means being able to pay an affordable price with a host with a much better network. Heard great things about SecuredServers/PhoenixNAP, although their E3 lineup is a bit pricier (starts around $98/month), network is great and support is very good. ServerMania isn't quite as good, but does have cheaper E3s (around $79/month). More pricy, but if the performance is a lot better, might be worth it. Could maybe do some kind of fundraising deal to encourage more donations to sustain a higher monthly cost.