Minefold
Infrastructure
game server hosting
SHOW HN2011
26points
4comments
#412of 1,097 in 2011
Top 38%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Easy setup and support for non-geek players
From 1 comment
Chris and Dave have done it. If your non-geek mates play Minecraft, they'll do well with Minefold. They'll come for the ease of setup and stay for the support.
mattallen on HN
Welcome idea, long overdue
From 1 comment
Awesome stuff, about time someone built this!
ledfoot on HN
Objections
Minecraft servers use a lot of memory and CPU, questioning margins
From 1 comment
Interesting! What I wonder is: given how inefficient Minecraft is (in general), how can you have healthy tech margins when a single server can take up many hundreds of megs of…
bryanh on HN
Questions
How the company keeps healthy margins given server resource use
From 1 comment
Interesting! What I wonder is: given how inefficient Minecraft is (in general), how can you have healthy tech margins when a single server can take up many hundreds of megs of…
bryanh on HN