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Okay... so I'm still researching servers for my figure skating MUD, and I was just wondering... why are there so few windows-based servers, and what are the cons of using one ?

Here's an older list of muds that run on Windows...
http://home.alltel.net/jlsysinc/winmud.shtml
I apologize for the rest of the site being broken as it's been in transition for awhile. ;-)
There are a quite a bit more out there now.

The biggest con is you'll likely end up self-hosting your mud. That is unless you wish to spend $100-$250/mo. as Windows hosts are more expensive for service providers to run.

thanks for the link. Actually, I'm interested in windows based MUDS partly because I would be able to self-host instead of having to pay for a machine... I'm just wondering if there are any cons to windows-based MUDS. Are they supposed to be less stable or something ?

How well they have been coded aside, they are as stable as the server.
Which means 'Yes.' They aren't nearly as stable as linux based muds.

If you're running Windows 2000 and up, you should have no worries about general system stability. Your stability will usually be less than with a unix server, though, because when a security patch comes out you don't often have to reboot a unix server, only the affected daemon. There's also the issue of CALs for terminal services, but if you don't have many people logged into the server or if you use a free remote-access tool such as cygwin and ssh or vnc, it should be alright.

Yui Unifex