   free/low cost mmo hosting
  Hi. Are there any companies that offer free hosting for hobby mmmos ?Thanks   
  http://www.theplanet.com/ has pretty reliable hosting but your not going to find anything "cheap" by any means (as far as I know)...But I guess that all depends on your budget =p, the avoid mentioned site has some servers for 100$ a month-ish, hopefully you get some more cheaper suggestions!, I have used them because and its pretty reliable but you get what you pay for =)Edit: just realized you said free, whoops... well anyway above is not free :(   ;  Well not free but there's a lot of cheap unmanaged linux VPS's out thereWhat are your CPU/RAM/bitrate/bandwidth requirements?   ;  i don't know yet , i am just dreaming right now :)i made a few games in flash , and a i started a game a long ago in directx 5. As there are more free libraries right now , like OGRE and ODE and GNE i thought , hey maybe i could make a small mmo . The problem is my ip is not static and not public , so ... I really hoped there is a free/ad-based/5$-month mmo hosting server. But i wouldn't need much i guess. Just an application that matches 2 players , and transmits one's ip to the other one so they can play peer to peer .   ;  you could do it with a basic php/asp host.When you create a server it accesses a page eg www.example.com/server/register.phpThe script would then store the servers ip and a timestamp in a database.After that every 5 min or so the server access another page eg www.example.com/server/update.php to update the timestamp in the database so people know the server is still up.Then clients could access a page like www.example.com/server/servers.php which would return a list of all the servers ips that have updated in the past 10 mins or so. The clients could then query each server to get upto date info on them.Then anyone can host a server as long as they forward whatever tcp/udp ports your game uses.   ;  awesomethanks a loti was hoping that would be possible