{"id":35910,"date":"2012-04-13T01:23:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T23:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35910"},"modified":"2012-04-13T01:25:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T23:25:43","slug":"mweb-announces-minecraft-servers-available-for-rental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35910-mweb-announces-minecraft-servers-available-for-rental","title":{"rendered":"MWEB announces Minecraft servers available for rental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB GameZone in partnership with Multiplay have announced that the MWEB Cape Town data centre will now host rental services for Minecraft. Multiplay is a UK based gaming services provider that has been in operation since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Through Multiplay, users can host Minecraft and Voice Comms (Mumble, TeamSpeak 3, Ventrilo) services. Those hosting a Minecraft server are also offered discounts on Voice Comms services.<\/p>\n<p>Server pricing comes in from R100 per month, although it is worth noting that the prices are listed in British Pounds. Discounts are given for 3 month (10%), 6 month (15%) and 12 month (20%) rental periods.<\/p>\n<p>The Minecraft servers feature:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solid State Disks (SSD);<\/li>\n<li>FTP Access;<\/li>\n<li>Low RAM prices;<\/li>\n<li>Bukkit Support;<\/li>\n<li>24\/7 Support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We caught up with MWEB&#8217;s online gaming manager, Desmond Kurz, to find out a bit more about the service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first dedicated Minecraft rental service that MWEB has provided to the gaming public in that the server is custom-built for the specific requirements of hosting Minecraft,&#8221; said Kurz. &#8220;Minecraft is incredibly I\/O intensive, for example, which is why these servers have Solid State Drives (SSD).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We asked how Multiplay services differ from simply hosting directly with MWEB. &#8220;Multiplay is one of the global leaders in game server hosting, so they provide 24\/7 support and billing services which we don\u2019t offer at present. Rather than developing those ourselves, its a \u201cbest-of-breed\u201d partnership similar to our partnership with Gameservers.com,&#8221; said Kurz.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the partnership with Multiplay, Kurz said &#8220;We sought them out originally to provide the Battlefield Play4Free and Battlefield Heroes public servers for South African gamers. These we launched in partnership with them a couple of months ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Multiplay has indicated that they are looking to launch other games in SA soon, and we asked Kurz about MWEB&#8217;s roll in this: &#8220;Like all partnerships, we will always be on the lookout for mutually beneficial hosting arrangements. From a next step point of view, we would potentially look at offering SA gamers the opportunity to rent their own Battlefield Play4Free and Battlefield Heroes servers, if there is a demand for this,&#8221; concluded Kurz.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: MWEB, <a title=\"Multiplay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.multiplay.co.uk\/news\/3128-south-africa-gameservers-now-available\" target=\"_blank\">Multiplay<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Battlefield Play4Free and Battlefield Heroes servers launched in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31911-battlefield-play4free-and-battlefield-heroes-servers-launched-in-sa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefield Play4Free and Battlefield Heroes servers launched in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mweb, ClanBase bring professional gaming tournaments to SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/27785-mweb-clanbase-bring-professional-gaming-tournaments-to-sa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mweb, ClanBase bring professional gaming tournaments to SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MWEB launches GamersGate mirror service\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34281-mweb-launches-gamersgate-mirror-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">MWEB launches GamersGate mirror service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership with Multiplay brings Minecraft rental servers to the South African masses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":27087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,333,2245,217],"class_list":["post-35910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-minecraft","tag-multiplay","tag-mweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35927,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35910\/revisions\/35927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}