WildBillKelsoe Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 Hi, Due to the fact that most of us have working lives, I've decided to rent a server to meet folks on a day to day basis, maybe even start my own clan:megalol: . However, since I'm a PS3 user initially, I intend to ask what are the best servers out there in terms of price and performance? I intend to host a minimum of 4 and maximum of 8 players. If the server can host more, I'd rather reallocate the remaining bandwidth to active players. Geographically speaking, I'm looking for servers of Teamspeak 3 in Germany, and I need it dedicated with Admin rights delegated to me. Also any guides on how to upload the mission files to the servers? the game? etc... Penalties for not paying the following month? All advice is appreciated, specially from clan members and founders. I wanted to join clans but since I'm currently stuck in Egypt (I'm from AB Canada btw), and since I've played Arma 2 on German servers (which lagged least to be honest), I'd figured some Deutschemann could barge here and recommend the best... Reason why Egyptian ADSL line connects to Europe thru Germany. Capito??? AWAITING ED NEW DAMAGE MODEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR WW2 BIRDS Fat T is above, thin T is below. Long T is faster, Short T is slower. Open triangle is AWACS, closed triangle is your own sensors. Double dash is friendly, Single dash is enemy. Circle is friendly. Strobe is jammer. Strobe to dash is under 35 km. HDD is 7 times range key. Radar to 160 km, IRST to 10 km. Stay low, but never slow.
Sleem Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 You mean you want to host DCS A10 & Teamspeak? Just TS is easy and you can hire a virtual server from lots of places. A10 is a bit more complicated. The main hurdle is A10 does not currently have a dedicated server executable. This means your server needs to be able to run the full program, just like your pc. You can turn off graphics so it doesn't have to be very high end, but it will need a real graphics card. You might be lucky and be able to hire a server like this from somewhere, but I believe most people have their own and pay for colocation. If you have lots of questions catch me on the going ugly server and we can chat on Teamspeak if you like :)
Guest Fury_007 Posted August 26, 2011 Posted August 26, 2011 I hosted a 4 person server right from my own pc. I didn't notice a slowdown at all and nobody else complained. I'm not sure about hosting a ts server as well on the same machine. If you have a spare pc lying around you could use it for that.
WildBillKelsoe Posted August 27, 2011 Author Posted August 27, 2011 You mean you want to host DCS A10 & Teamspeak? Just TS is easy and you can hire a virtual server from lots of places. A10 is a bit more complicated. The main hurdle is A10 does not currently have a dedicated server executable. This means your server needs to be able to run the full program, just like your pc. You can turn off graphics so it doesn't have to be very high end, but it will need a real graphics card. You might be lucky and be able to hire a server like this from somewhere, but I believe most people have their own and pay for colocation. If you have lots of questions catch me on the going ugly server and we can chat on Teamspeak if you like :) Would you be kind to explain the colocation thingy? My problem is that I played on TGUK and the connection was good, with the exception of some lagging (ping was 181 or 121 dont remember) but the main objective is to play the game smoothly as possible. Currently I'm not close to my gear for 2 weeks tops, but as soon as I return, I will go on teamspeak and talk more with you on that. Thanks for the input. I hosted a 4 person server right from my own pc. I didn't notice a slowdown at all and nobody else complained. I'm not sure about hosting a ts server as well on the same machine. If you have a spare pc lying around you could use it for that. I'm no tech buff, call me Gibbs from NCIS, could you be Abby? How do clans or VFSs operate? I mean do I have to rent a TS3 server and play online normally from my computer? Or do I rent a game server and upload DCS A10c to it? Again bear with me. AWAITING ED NEW DAMAGE MODEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR WW2 BIRDS Fat T is above, thin T is below. Long T is faster, Short T is slower. Open triangle is AWACS, closed triangle is your own sensors. Double dash is friendly, Single dash is enemy. Circle is friendly. Strobe is jammer. Strobe to dash is under 35 km. HDD is 7 times range key. Radar to 160 km, IRST to 10 km. Stay low, but never slow.
Sleem Posted August 27, 2011 Posted August 27, 2011 First off you need some hardware. :) You can host from your own pc but this will be limited to only being online when it is switched on and running. When you switch off, obviously your server goes offline. Also the quality and speed of your connection is very important as your pc needs to 'talk' to all players online with you. The alternative is to have hardware for running the A10 executable which is not local to you i.e. it is not running on your pc. This means you either buy or rent a machine and house it in a datacentre. The datacentre provides a high speed internet connection and continuous power 24/7. There is a fee for this! ;) This machine can run continuously to play the game, serve squadron webpages etc. As I mentioned previously there is no dedicated server executable. The hardware server needs to run the full A10 executable. This means you cannot use a virtual machine, and there must be a real graphics card too. I do not know anywhere that leases this type of server. Colocation means you buy and own the hardware and pay to house it in a datacentre. The hardware is then your choice entirely. You can colocate desktops or rackservers depending on what the datacentre offers. Next comes software. You need A10. One copy is enough if you play and host on the same pc. If you run a dedicated hardware server and play from another pc, you need a second A10 license. Teamspeak is free for personal use with some limitations - both client and server. So whichever hardware option you go for, you could run a Teamspeak server on it for no extra expense. A hardware server can run as many different software 'servers' as it has resources for e.g. my server will run an A10 server, Teamspeak server, webpage server, amongst others. Feel free to PM me if you want to :pilotfly:
HiJack Posted August 27, 2011 Posted August 27, 2011 Clans. lol What is so wrong in having a clan RIP? It is a gaming club anyway you name it. Squad, wing, team so on.... Please respect tat not everybody in here are old old pilots like you ;) (HJ)
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