time

The amount of time you leave, the more it will be!

Quote from Matthias

It's all magic.

The waiting time is estimated and in no way guaranteed as it depends on how servers get stopped and resources get free for new users.
We don't have the waiting time to annoy users to pay for something, it's just that we have limited resources and if they are full, everybody
else has to wait in the queue to guarantee a fair system.

The estimated time is calculated with the difference between the waiting time of the user that is currently first in queue (server is started
next) and your waiting time. In our experience this generates a pretty good estimated value, getting more and more accurate the further you
advance through the queue.

And yes the waiting time depends obviously heavily on the community and its growth. In the last years we have increased our server resources
nearly every month to meet the needs, but we have to stay in our financial possibilities. We had times I think ca. 1 year ago where the queue
sometimes exceeded 2 hours, so 30 minutes or more in the peak times is pretty good for us and I think also okay for a free server.

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