I really like Mumble, as you can tell by my other posts on the subject. I’ve been searching around, researching the competition, and there doesn’t really seem to be too much going on in the way of commercial mumble hosting. There’s Mumble Tower, a german based host who I know nothing about but because I lack a european server right now I automatically forward any european clients there just in case they want super low latency. They’re a good bit cheaper than we are so I’m not sure if it’s good service or what.
But they’re basically it, besides one or two other sketchy outfits. Overall I was expecting our Mumble hosting packages to sell slower than New York Yankees tickets on the Boston Craigslist, but it’s actually going better than expected. We’re actually adding a few new accounts here and there, hopefully the people stay put – and once we make up for the slump Xatu put us in I plan on picking up a European server to stick more Murmurs on.
I haven’t yet made up enough to bother donating to the Mumble project yet, but we should be ready to start doing monthly contributions in the next month or so. Now all I need to concentrate on the web hosting and other services. 