I've talked to Wololo about this already as there has to be a good way about getting this thing to the people...
As with all my work - it will be GPLv3 licensed which means yes - you can easily host your own server...
However this aint the idea behind this... if we do this the server way... it should be on one big one for every region... because otherwise we have the same problem tunneling programs have... finding people that join you.
Once this thing is running a donation drive to keep it up sure is welcome, as it will be our own little alternative to PSN & co.
But for starters, it should be safe for a while as both Wololo and I will be contributing our own server machines for this cause.
Im currently rewriting my server software to use a 3-pass-search for player matching... instead of my old (bad...) 1-pass search...
This will maximize the server response times and minimize the server cpu time... making the server footprint quite small.
But its late and I'm sleepy. So I will call it a day...
For tomorrow... I hope to finish the server and start porting the client modules to connect to it instead of using a p2p friend search.
If all goes right its back to betatesting the coming weekend... hope to see you on there again kakarotto.
Of course everyone else with configured DMZ and GE-Burst is welcome to give it a testrun then.