Server Cores. At current Best and worse ( In your opinions, all welcomed, thanks )

[Endders]

Title says it all, being a vet of olden times when vanilla servers were awesome and level 90 was cool cause retail only allowed 60..

I'm back to start a new one, and I need to know information to lead me to or help me make a decision on what is good, and what just plain is icky.

Experience wise, I can do mysql databases, no issue there, I can write whole AI's from that lol, LUA I can script, so no issue there, I can config and otherwise compile it myself, so again no issue.

I just want to know the current server cores, and how they are pitted against one another, I'm going to host a vanilla 60, a TBC 70, a WoTLK 80, and just a Cata level 85, not pandaria, so none of those server cores, unless they run what I mentioned above.

I'd also like a database that is decent, I'm going to spend three months in dev, so a decent one just accelerates the process, thanks guys for your help and contributions ahead of time.

Oh one last thing, A web hosting server like Apache etc.. any of those that you may know of please refer me just so I can like the DB to the whole of it all and allow easy created accounts. Thanks guys!

[Appled]

I've never heard of LUA, what's that? Sounds similiar to Lua.

Okay enough with dat. I have no clue of 4.X cores as I haven't played cata or mop. But you should try TrinityCore's 4.3.4 branch (https://github.com/trinitycore/trinitycore/tree/4.3.4). I think it's the best available in the end though.
For TBC I would say the best core there is either OregonCore (https://github.com/Havoc/OregonCore/) or then optionally TrinityCore1. OregonCore is a fork of TrinityCore1 as TrinityCore1 was discontinued years ago. OregonCore though has made some commits which failed some things. I can't remember what. I haven't tried OregonCore for 1 and half year though so I have no idea have they fixed the bugs.
For WoTLK I would say the best core, with no doubts, is TrinityCore, former TrinityCore2 (https://github.com/trinitycore/trinitycore).
Oh, and for pretbc I would say the best core there is MangosZero (https://github.com/mangoszero/server).

You can find databases for all these easily. Latest TDB (TrinityCore Database) for TrinityCores, ODB (OregonCore Database) for OregonCore, and the MangosZero database for MangosZero.
I've helped you more than I thought I would help hehe.

EDIT: Forgot apache. If you are running on Linux, just get LAMP. For Windows, WampServer. Website itself you can either code by yourself or search from google.

[Endders]

Just messed up with capitalization, but you know what I mean Lua the scripting language.. :3

Ah, I loved Apache so much better, Wamp server just always got my computers panties in a bunch, I do plan to run windows server 2008 when I get the opteron etc... And you've given way more than I could have asked, thank you very much

[Harambeqt]

Emulator

1.12.x (Vanil)

• 1.CMangos

2.4.3 (TBC)

• 1. CMangos

3.3.5 (WOTLK)

• Either C/Mangos or TrinityCore

Oregoncore is dead, Trinity1 is dead, mangosone is dead and Arcemu has always been a pile of shitty code.
You could go Cmangos all the way, the may not be the fastest developers (TrinityCore is alot more active) but they are less mem leaks/hacky code.

Host

Host the emulator/mysql on a linux and use a webserver for the website.

I've never heard of LUA, what's that? Sounds similiar to Lua.

Cut the bullshit, seriously. Lua/LUA just stop pointing it out. And oregoncore and the other projects you listed are dead, more or less.