Game, Application and Web Hosting For the Social Game Fest
What we will provide as Part of the Social Game Fest:
We will provide an application and web server through which each student will have a pre set up account which includes tools necessary to develop a social game or application such as PHP and MySQL.
The server will have the facebook API already downloaded and set up along with various tutorial goodies. The app and web server have a specialized editor set up for modifying scripts like PHP as well as a separate WISYWIG html editor for added convenience.
Accounts and set ups are free during the Game Fest and will be automatically closed two weeks after the Social Game Fest sessions have ended.
A participant has the option to notify us to convert their account into a paying account (approximately $3/month for the lowest option) if they prefer to keep an account open for further development and hosting after the event has ended. Otherwise the account will be closed automatically and no charge incurred.
Application and Web Server Specs
Production Servers are located in a data center in Palo Alto and are served by 100Mpbs fiber optic Internet connection. Servers currently have at least a dual xeon 2.5Ghz quad core with 16GB (expandable to 64GB) of ram and can expand to at least 7TB of storage space. Backup servers are located in San Francisco.
Community Connections
IRC chat channel: #socialgamefest on EFnet (active during fests)
General Facebook IRC chat channel: #facebook on FreeNode
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