Server Hardware and Cost

HWS has four servers which are located in

  • Germany (HWS+ EU)
  • Canada (HWS+ NA)
  • Germany (HWS RE EU)
  • Canada (HWS RE NA)

Hardware Specifications & Costs

HWS+ EU

  • AMD Epyc 7502P | 32c / 64t | 2.5GHz / 3.35GHz

  • 256 GB RAM DDR4 ECC

  • 2TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition

  • 1 Gbit/s

  • Cost: 230,27€ per month*

HWS+ NA

  • AMD Epyc 7371 | 16 / 32t | 3.1GHz / 3.8GHz

  • 256 GB RAM DDR4 ECC

  • 2TB NVMe SSD

  • 1 Gbit/s

  • Cost: $295,95 per month

HWS RE EU

  • AMD Epyc 7502P | 32c / 64t | 2.5GHz / 3.35GHz

  • 512 GB RAM DDR4 ECC

  • 2TB + 2TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition

  • 1 Gbit/s

  • Cost: 372,47€ per month
    HWS+ EU and RE EU:

HWS RE NA

  • AMD Epyc 7413 | 24c / 48t | 2.65 GHz/3.6 GHz

  • 512 GB RAM DDR4 ECC

  • 2TB NVMe SSD

  • 1 Gbit/s

  • Cost: $574,41 per month

Web Infrastructure Costs (everything else)

  • $58+ per month for the website / forum

  • $9 per month for Integromat (automating Tasks like RSS)

  • $15 per month for domains (e.g. https://hws.global)

  • $18 per month for Mailjet (SMTP Mails for Forum)

  • 10€ per month for Google Drive

  • $51 per year for Discord Bot(s)

Summary

Though free to HWS players, the cost of providing this premium Empyrion experience exceeds 1539+€ / $1697+ per month (excluded are costs more than that for people helping us like Full Admins, etc.) and is funded by the HWS Team with the help of Your support!

Thanks so much for helping to support HWS!

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And, that is only the hard costs.

On top of that is the creativity, time, blood, sweat and tears of all the hws team and volunteers and poi builders, and? ---- to help make it great.

Never underestimate, or take for granted what is here.

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