Renting Servers

(=ABS= SparhawK) #1

Clan =ABS= wansts to get its own server.

Who has the best deals, have used google but still not clear.

20 person server probably running ETpro.

Standard 6 maps, with a few extra thrown in.

Any stories, personel experiences about certain hosts.

Thanks :clap:

SH

(=MLK=FOO) #2

Http://www.HurricaneHost.com is great. The guy who owns this company is an actual gamer. He plays ET and rtcw. Great service too. His team is the toilet paper clan, his name is beatdown. Check em out. You wont be disappointed.

(=ABS= SparhawK) #3

ping =MLK=FOO

This server is in america, and the price for a public server running ET is $120.00 /month.

Thats about Ă‚ÂŁ80/month in england, I really need a UK server.

Thanks

SH

PS Or do you think the ping will be low enough, 40-60 is good above 80 starts to be noticed.

(DG) #4

it would most likely depend on what youre actually looking for; e.g. prices and avilability usually varies according to:

  • number of players,
  • option for public or not,
  • international or ukonly,
  • voice comms hosting,
  • minimum contract: seen 1 month, 3 month, 6 month and 12month! but also longer you will pay for the less per month they charge… but is your clan reliable enough?
  • method of admin access (ftp, telnet, vnc, etc),
  • desired rate settings (some will allow only sv_maxrate 10000, some 13000, some 25000…),
  • some offer various mathods for your clan to arrange payments - some require someone to pay up the lot and sort it yourselves, etc…

Basically it means most likely you will have to go to the page, select your options and see what it comes up with. Forums and IRC etc can be particularily useful for getting views on how good the service is though - frequency of server issues, customer service/speed of response etc. (just beware people tend to be more into posting, sometimes fairly sometimes not, about a experience of crap service, of if they are sponsored - things tend to be great when theyre free).

etpro and extra maps, pretty much anywhere will let you do this but you might either be able to FTP them up yourself, or have to get them to do it for you (painful if you change maps often). also beware server farms typically run multiple gameservers from the one machine+install (this is normal, as dedicated servers cost FAR more), which means e.g. custom campaign bug might be a major problem.

some places to look, cant vouch for any of their quality, bracketed info just taken from their sites:
jolt.co.uk (approx Ă‚ÂŁ55/m for 20player public; 13kps public 25kps private)
www.uber1337.co.uk (Ă‚ÂŁ55/m for 20player - presumed public?; 10kps?)
http://www.fpsclanservers.net/ (pricing page didnt work, public “under review”)
www.netplayuk.com (aka mgamers) (£60/m for 20player public, “Max Rate 7500” which i presume is wrong)

(=ABS= SparhawK) #5

ping DG

Thanks for informative post, will email and check the hosters you posted.

I think clan is good enough for some years to come, the reason clan will get a public server is thursday night LAN matches (12 or more peeps) will soon come to end. :frowning:

=ABS= clan online C’MON :drink:

SH

(k1ll3r) #6

Hey,

For ET/20 players, starting 95eur/month (-20% if paid every 6 months, -10% if every 3 month), you can rent a server on ptfrag ( www.ptfrag.net ). I run it and am a gamer myself too, some of your clan might actually remember me from RtCW jolt(01) - Tram Only.

We currently sponsor teams like gmpo.rtcw , mysod, de.rtcw… the rtcw servers for this nations cup (CB) will be played on our servers ( http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php?nid=103438&mid=0&lid=1150 ).

Basically whole europe pings below 50ms on our servers, some UK guys get to ping 20ms. Check http://www.ptfrag.net/pingtimes for a rough estimative (I don’t update it for awhile, but it remains valid).

If you would like to get in touch with us, the best way to do so is on irc; #ptfrag at quakenet.

Should your clan need a test server before deciding anything, talk to me (k1ll3r[dW]) and I’ll arrange it.

Cheers

(Lanz) #7

http://www.fpsclanservers.net/

Good stable UK servers from 35-40 quid a month, FTP access but no telnet but some basic control from web interface.

(=ABS= SparhawK) #8

Thanks to everybody for excellent posts.

k1ll3r will get in contact soon.

I loved RtCW jolt(01) - Tram Only, I wish this map was ported to ET. sigh

SH

(DG) #9

[Thread hijack]
btw for people still looking for a Jolt(1) / BY “Tram only” replacement, some people are making a big effort into repacing them with one, including a fair few regulars:

217.158.150.55:27010
http://exp.ukgamer.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=61

I think Jolt.rtcw would really like to get the Tram server (probably beach aswell) back up but theyre very limited in the number of servers they can have internationally-available now, and there was a huge dropoff when ET came out.

(k1ll3r) #10

not much of a replacement, no OSP :o