Minecraft Hosting plan

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Minecraft Hosting
Who's going to use this service? - Gamers who like online gaming and minecraft - A group of gamers who want to co-develop a world - Someone who wants to make money by charging for people to join and maintain their community - Existing minecraft players who need a fully featured community

What will they want to do?

- Show their world to the community - Show of their map - Show videos - Take payments from members (pay page) - See who's online - Control their server - See what plugins and mods are available - Gallery of screenshots - Forum - Whitelist control - Blog - Stats per user to see who's top of the leaderboard - Integrate stats for shop - Rules - use their own domain or a subdomain

Demographics

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Hosting
4 Levels of hosting 1 - 10 slots 10 - 30 slots 30 - 60 slots 60 + 768mb 1gb 2gb 3gb

As Standard Automated server setup

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Storage 10 - 50 GB Email Support Offsite Daily Automated Backups SFTP or FTP Root Access Full server control Fast Setup Raid Storage Protection No Overselling Bukkit Free Sub-Domain Ubuntu OS Optional Ramdisk (additional 512mb required for world)
More frequent backups

mysql database (for Bukkit plugins) Community Site (more info to come)
Custom Domainname Dedicated Server hosting File manager

Extra costs
Plugin installation Bandwidth Memory Upgrade Map transfer Billing Monthly Billing with 30day money back Guarantee Paypal $1 week trial

Initial Server
Hetzner Dedicated 12GB, 2 SAS, 2 SATA, 2xHW-RAID-1 http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq6 Server 69.00 60.70 Flexi pack 6 Ips 2 sas 300GB 4-Port Hardware-RAID Controller 15 5.40 30 15 13.19 4.74 26.38 13.19

Adaptec 5405

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Total Monthly Cost per GB cpanel server licence

============== 103.68 ============== 8.58 $38 23.00

http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/sas-5405/ Hetzner Dedicated 24GB, 2 SAS, 2 SATA, 2xHW-RAID-1 http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq6 Server 69.00 78.00 Flexi pack 6 Ips 2 sas 300GB 4-Port Hardware-RAID Controller Total Monthly Cost per GB cpanel server licence 15 5.40 30 15 13.19 4.74 26.38 13.19

Adaptec 5405

============== 135.50 ============== 8.58 $38 23.00

Income per server per month Income $360 218 Server Cost 103 Prot 115 Next Server Hetzner Dedicated 980x 24GB, 2 SAS, 2 SATA, 2xHW-RAID-1 server 109.00 94.50 Flexi pack 6 Ips 2 sas 300GB 4-Port Hardware-RAID Controller Total Monthly Cost per GB cpanel 15 5.40 30 15 13.19 4.74 26.38 13.19

Adaptec 5405

============== 151.18 ============== 6.29 $38 24.00

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Income per server per month for 23 mine craft servers Income $690 425 Server Cost 151.18 Prot 273.82 18.478260869565217 Prot Server Setup - Xen or OpenVZ - Ubuntu - Java 1.7 - Bukkit - SSH & FTP - Mysql - Lighthttpd - PHP-5.cgi - Shell scripts for backup and restarting vps1.eonicdesign.co.uk - whmcs - solusVM or HyperVM - Wordpress Blog - Domain name - Webmin - Custom Design Questions? What are the running costs how do we expand Buffer yourself, ll 75% of server what resources do i need Support Computer Servers Test Server How do i manage the support - Answering all questions faq - Keep service simple - User as many tools as possible - Billing questions / chasing payments capital investment - Credit card for server paid off everymonth

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- build up business account should really aim for the expensive side of the market $60+ - Marketing through existing channels via sponsoring How do I do the above? 1 Learn how to manage linux server (on going) 2 setup core server (done) 3 setup minecraft server (done) 4 setup virtulisation with xen or openvz 5 Branding 6. Setup blog for how to do minecraft hosting 7 Setup 8 Fill one server of customer and see how it work (support and technical) 9 Replicate this server as the model 10 automate everything you do Managing Worlds example can be found here of an admin system which can be replicated. http://cp.mpserv.net demo demo Names for the service craftynodes.com obsidiannode.com blocknode.com bucketnode.com bukkitnode.com - netherracks.com - stickypiston.com Current hosts www.mpserv.net Control Panels http://twitter.com/#!/MucopaSupport cp.mpserv.net "Liam Norris" & "Jonathan Martin" minecraft

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