Noisy Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Hi Folks, I'd like to share my project https://ready-room.net You can upload a mission file and have it run in a local Amazon datacenter. I've been running missions this way for the last few months to reduce the average ping for my local squadron. Being able to just run for a few hours at a time rather than 24x7, its inexpensive. Cheers, Noisy https://ready-room.net DCS cloud mission hosting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor_H Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 I'm sorry if i come across a bit dumb here but could you elaborate on this? Is it a server hosting deal? Supercarrier | Flaming Cliffs 3 | M-2000C | AJS-37 Viggen| MIG-21Bis | L-39 Albatros | Yak-52 | Spitfire LF MK IX | Mig-15Bis | Mig-19P Farmer | P-51D Mustang | F/A-18 | F-14 | F-5E Tiger II | C-101 Aviojet | I-16 | UH-1H Huey | Mil MI-8tv2 | Sa 342M Gazelle | Combined Arms | NS-430 Navigation System | NEVADA | Persian Gulf | Normandy1944 | World war II assets pack | Black Shark 2 | F-5E Agressors ACM campaign |F-5E Agressors BFM Campaign | L-39 Albatros Kursant Campaign | DCS:Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noisy Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) No worries, I'm not the best communicator. Yes, I suppose it is a server hosting deal. Its intended for hosting a specific mission for a few hours at a time though rather than something that is always running. This is because I'm in turn using aws ec2 for the hosting at on demand pricing. If you did need a 24x7 server, I'd recommend not using ready-room.net since you can get better pricing direct from Amazon if you can commit to a 1 to 3 year period (and you wouldn't need the automation of ready-room.net since you would only set it up once). Each time a mission is run, its on a separately provisioned virtual machine (aws ec2). You pay for what you use: you choose the size of the vm, how many hours you want it for and where and when you want it run. When its starts, DCS Standalone server is installed and updated, optionally an SRS server, and the uploaded mission. Its not too difficult to do this yourself directly with Amazon, but it is tedious. A good guide on how to do this on azure is https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure/host-a-dcs-server-in-azure/m-p/334031 The most significant cost for me to host a mission is the hourly ec2 cost, so my pricing model is to ask for a margin over what I need to pay Amazon for that, and hopefully this covers the rest of the expenses and I wont make a loss. The cheapest ec2 I'm offering is 't3.medium' for 0.18US/hr. But it's quite expensive to process small transactions (I'm using stripe.com, but I think paypal would be similar), so I'm using a credit system where you can buy $5 (USD) at a time. Update: 20-2-15 The least expensive is now an 'i3.large' for 0.56US/hr. I've since learned that DCS is quite sensitive to disk latency, so for better performance, types without local SSDs or enough ram for a ramdisk have been removed. Edited February 15, 2020 by Noisy https://ready-room.net DCS cloud mission hosting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor_H Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Very interesting, this might be something i will make use of. Thanks for explaining. Supercarrier | Flaming Cliffs 3 | M-2000C | AJS-37 Viggen| MIG-21Bis | L-39 Albatros | Yak-52 | Spitfire LF MK IX | Mig-15Bis | Mig-19P Farmer | P-51D Mustang | F/A-18 | F-14 | F-5E Tiger II | C-101 Aviojet | I-16 | UH-1H Huey | Mil MI-8tv2 | Sa 342M Gazelle | Combined Arms | NS-430 Navigation System | NEVADA | Persian Gulf | Normandy1944 | World war II assets pack | Black Shark 2 | F-5E Agressors ACM campaign |F-5E Agressors BFM Campaign | L-39 Albatros Kursant Campaign | DCS:Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFA41_Lion Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Looks interesting, is there a Discord support server for it running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noisy Posted February 5, 2020 Author Share Posted February 5, 2020 Yes, you can contact me at https://discord.gg/hURRqGP https://ready-room.net DCS cloud mission hosting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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