Okay, I ordered another server (the same as we presently have about) to enhance the capacity and enable more players to play.
Here are the changes explaind:
Current hardware:
1)Athlon X2 4200+ with 2 GB DDR400 RAM with 2x160 GB Harddiscs for the entire game
2)Athlon 3700+ with 1 GB DDR400 RAM with 2x160 GB Harddiscs for forum/legendofbleach/backups/emails
Hardware after the expansion:
1)Athlon X2 4200+ with 2 GB DDR400 RAM with 2x300 GB hdd (with RAID 1 for more safety) as database server only --> wired to
3)Athlon X2 4200+ with 2 GB DDR400 RAM with 2x160 GB Harddiscs as sole PHP server (still no emails whatsoever as they are handled by the third server where legendofbleach etc is on)
2)Athlon 3700+ with 1 GB DDR400 RAM with 2x160 GB Harddiscs for forum/legendofbleach/backups/emails
This is what will happen about next week when the server is set up, we also need to move physically and get a new IP, so I need a few hours to configure that.
Monthly costs are (rounded to $):
1) 100
2) 50
4) 130 (RAID costs quite a bit extra)
== $280 per month
and the one-time fee for the new server is $120 and we need maybe an extra gbit switch who costs $80.