There's a thread here where he bought himself a 4-CPU 2UU rackmount server and ran it out of his shed then moved it to a datacenter (centre
) for Assist. The game servers aren't required but the master server and web server is.
Hmm, maybe I'm missing something, but I'd expect such machine to mosly idle when running the auth/master server + website, which handles the amount of clients we have in AA2.5 community (i.e. low).
I think Jonny just bought himself a rig to play BF3, and the whole assist thing is just a smoke screen ;-DDD.
But seriously, it would be much easier and practical to move just the software, not the whole box.
In the meantime I will talk to the guy who owns all the stuff at my place (Chicken Farm), to check what are the possibilities.