[Question] -Linux Hosting?

[CheeKo]

Am I able to host a FlyFF server, using Cent-OS Linux distribution, or any Linux distributions for that matter?

If so, I haven't seen a guide anywhere, if there is one, could someone direct me into the correct thread?

I'm pretty sure if it's possible to host off a linux, I can easily set it up.

Thank You,
-CheeKo

[MentaL]

[ShadowDragon]

uh, unless you're going to do it with a virtual machine within Cent-OS that has a version of windows installed, then no, you can't. You'd have to completely recode all 7 server programs because they're all Win32 programs.

[CheeKo]

That is what I thought, thanks for the quick response. Damn these hosts making people pay for windows licenses.

[cKenzy]

That is what I thought, thanks for the quick response. Damn these hosts making people pay for windows licenses.

window's not free.
i was paying only 15$ montly just for windows in my old dedicated server.

[ObjectOriented]

Lol'd fail. Windows is free. If you know where to get it, and I'm not talking about illegal windows either.

[Improved]

But it is possible to convert the functions in the source for it to be able to run on Linux.

[ShadowDragon]

But it is possible to convert the functions in the source for it to be able to run on Linux.

I didn't say it wasn't possible, just that they are currently Win32 programs lol

It would require a great deal of knowledge of both C++ and probably linux to do it.

[Improved]

I didn't say it wasn't possible, just that they are currently Win32 programs lol

It would require a great deal of knowledge of both C++ and probably linux to do it.

Not really.

The source is written in managed C++, which Linux for example dosen't support. But if you rewrote the managed functions to unmanaged, then I think it would be working of a Linux machine.

It would be pretty neat to have a server running off a Linux machine.

[ShadowDragon]

See? I thought I knew stuff about C++ (beginner I guess) but I didn't know about managed/unmanaged =P Maybe 'great deal of knowledge' is a bit over exaggerating, but either way you'd still need to know what you're doing.

And yes, it would be awesome except for one thing. It's reliant on Microsoft SQL Server, and switching to MySQL is a sub-par solution for one reason: As far as I know, MySQL has a very limited number of sustained connections. I forget how many, although I think it was enough to handle small servers.. but if the server got bigger, I don't think migrating to a different SQL Server would be easy.