Lets get technical

Electroserver rocks. It's simple, easy to use and quick to learn. Smartfoxserver on that other hand is slightly different but if you have worked on ES then working on SFS would not be difficult. SFS has an api for C#, now this is a plus for most people developing apps for windows or mac. Support for Actionscript however is there both for ES and SFS. So this would help game development for online games. Learning curve for ES is low and hence you could speed up in no time. It has got a good API and have a great documentation. And best of all, it is got a good customer support and forum. So my choice would always be on ES.

Configuring ElectroServer (4.0) is an easy task for Windows. You just download the setup, install it and run the server. And you also have the admin tool and the UI to tweak and adjust the settings of the server. But not an easy task with MacOSX. Here I would be giving an information about how to configure Electro-Server for the MacOSX. As you know to run ElectroServer 4.0+ you need JVM 1.6 or higher. But SUN does not have a download of JVM 1.6 for MacOSX as Mac decided to bring up its own virtual machine. At this point I hope you must be knowing what ElectroServer is. In simple words it is a server used for developing and configuring multiplayer games and MMOs. For more information kindly visit the Electro Server website . To run the Electro Server in MacOSX, do the following 1) Download the Unix (without JVM) version of the Electro Server. 2) Un-Archive it. And run ElectroServer unix executable file. 3) If you run it, you would probably get an error stating that the required JVM was ...