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by chrislloyd • 15 years ago

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bryanh• 15 years ago

Interesting!

What I wonder is: given how inefficient Minecraft is (in general), how can you have healthy tech margins when a single server can take up many hundreds of megs of memory (and chew through a respectable allotment of CPU time)? As I recall, this grows linearly with each player added.

chrislloyd• 15 years ago

Yep, in fact the server's memory usage grows the further each player is away from each other :)

We are doing Heroku-style spinning up and spinning servers on demand. We only pay for however much you play.

ledfoot• 15 years ago

Awesome stuff, about time someone built this!

mattallen• 15 years ago

Chris and Dave have done it. If your non-geek mates play Minecraft, they'll do well with Minefold. They'll come for the ease of setup and stay for the support.

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