Server
I have decided that I can’t go on living without a server. :P have done for some time now but every little thing just becomes so complicated when using other solutions. I mean I would need a web hotel to do web stuff, but then I am limited by both space and what they are willing to install to the machines. Best case if I pay enough I would get SSH access. -__-
I have also tried to find a suitable host for source control, I mean there are huge players like github or bitbucket, shouldn’t be too hard right?
wrong. Bitbucket puts a stop when I hit 2gb repo size, and that is not a lot for games, sure the game could be kept pretty small, or as small as the sum of your assets at least. But 2gb is not huge. So what if I pay for it? still a no go, paying only give you other benifits you are still constrained to 2gb repos.
So I went over to github, they are huge and the only annoying part is that you need to pay to have private repos. So I said, sure I’ll pay, it’s worth it. I soon realized however that there is a hard limit of 50 mb file sizes. That wont do, my Fauth-sculpt is 102 mb alone, and that is the rough 1-1.3 million polygons sculpt, that’s not unreasonable for a work in progress sculpt is it? However it’s a no go.
So instead of paying monthly for web hotel (which service I am not happy with), and monthly for source control (which service I am not happy with) I have decided to put that money into buying a server which will be exactly what I want. I guess I could even put the money into a DNS since I won’t be spending monthly for web hotel, git-repos and so on, and I will not need to put in hours of work trying to find ways to make the services useful.
So bottom line I would recommend people to pick up the hardware and run OpenSuSE, FreeBSD or whatever OS you are comfortable with instead of puzzle bad services, that’s what I am going to do!
