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I had some free time yesterday, so gave this experiment a go:
Amazon Web Services provides free hosting of a micro Windows instance for a year if you're a new customer. The micro instance only has 1GB of RAM, so I had my doubts the server would run, but I was pleasantly surprised. It runs perfectly fine in Win Server 2012 without exceeding any limits.
It's been stable for almost 24h, peak memory usage hasn't exceeded any thresholds. You only have to get your hands a little dirty following the instructions from the tripwire wiki and take note of the following caveats.
Caveats:
I mainly just wanted to let people know this is an option and works well with the current state of the game.
Amazon Web Services provides free hosting of a micro Windows instance for a year if you're a new customer. The micro instance only has 1GB of RAM, so I had my doubts the server would run, but I was pleasantly surprised. It runs perfectly fine in Win Server 2012 without exceeding any limits.
It's been stable for almost 24h, peak memory usage hasn't exceeded any thresholds. You only have to get your hands a little dirty following the instructions from the tripwire wiki and take note of the following caveats.
Caveats:
- Only 3.3GB free after installing the server, future expansions may exceed what the free server provides in terms of HDD space.
- Incoming bandwidth is free, but you're limited to 15GB outbound per month or it's $0.09/GB (You shouldn't hit this limit unless you host map data from the server, but something to keep an eye on.)
- EC2 management is not for beginners. If you're cozy playing with cloud services and sysadmin, give it a go. But there are several "gotchas" that could bite inexperienced users.
I mainly just wanted to let people know this is an option and works well with the current state of the game.