Renting a Windows Game Server

Windows Game Server

In general Games have been always the biggest obsession in the world of computers. When buying a computer, not a lot of people know to say what they really want from a computer. They either say I have that amount of money or the more frequent one that concerns our theme is: I want to play that game on max configuration without any problems. So nowadays computers have become toys for children, but also for a lot of adults where they only have one goal and that is to whack that character in the back of the screen with a rocket launcher or if someone prefers more stealth kills with a sniper. Face the fact that a lot of games on the market are slowly losing their charms if they are intended only for single player mode. There is some special games where playing online would be meaningless, but mostly nowadays users want to compete against other players of the world, no matter where they are located! In countries that didn’t have access to Internet speed that the Western Europe and so forth had all the time, they had to be satisfied with games play on LAN. Nowadays these restrictions have been lifted for some time, and worldwide tournaments are being held where the best of the best are competing against each other. However, these tournaments don’t have to be the only way to test your skills against an opponent that is in another country or even different continent.

To a couple of years ago hosting was realized as the key to providing players private space for playing games between themselves, to practice, have fun but also release their frustrations in the most popular genre first-person shooting games. When these games started to come out with the multiplayer option that allows Internet gaming, then the world has entered a new area of games. At first it was most of the countries in USA, Western Europe and Japan, but the flow of things has been evolving fast enough, for everyone to be able to experience the things that once were only in our dreams. The game developers had realized that the game networks are starting to spread and therefore the games had to be adjusted to the more and more demanding multiplayer modes that the gamers wanted to function without any glitches. So in time as the conditions allowed it, clans have been formed.

Clans are called a group of people who have one purpose only: To fight between themselves, practice doing so, and then on great competitions be the best in the world. All of this written so far leads to this and that is one of the key factors for successful multiplayer surroundings, hosting. I previously mentioned LAN networks used for multiplayer games and still they are very much played all around the world, however as the technology has progressed a lot we are no longer restricted to LAN networks, as Internet has become opened for everybody.

VPS VS Dedicated Server

When game hosting started to come forth in the world, it could be only used on dedicated server hosting, as the VPS didn’t exist then. Dedicated hosting means a lot of money and that is well-known fact, so it was only available for those people who could allocate enough money for its renting, or by well organized groups who counted in numbers and therefore splitting the costs between themselves, but what about a dozen of people who live inside a perimeter counting 200-500km? They are good friends, meet somewhere and they all have a thing for Call of Duty. Dedicated server is too much, but on the other hand VPS server is something totally different. Selecting a plan that satisfies their financial status, splitting up the cost between themselves and playing the game in multiplayer mode between themselves with other restricted from accessing...it doesn’t get better than that. Dedicated server is not a solution to be forgotten completely. You have to respect the fact that dedicated server means resources and power or to be exact a lot of it. This is why the dedicated server is meant for hundred players and more, but from where I come from (and I think this goes for the rest of the world) smaller groups are prevailing in this fact. Dedicated servers are good for big tournaments; however the number of problems that can occur is far greater then with the VPS. VPS represents a smaller dedicated server, but with additional features making it more secure and more reliable and of course much cheaper. You can go by logic here: more people means bigger network. This automatically leads to increase of security issues and of course the possibility of virus or hacker attack is without question far greater. VPS besides being easier to manage and configured to work as a game server, is easier to secure with different layers of protection. First of all the circle of users (previous example 12) would normally consist of trustworthy players. Second layer would be authorization and then authentication. When all of this is put together you get a pretty powerful and cheap combination, but for some this isn’t still cheap enough…

Linux VS Windows

There isn’t much to tell here as this has been mentioned a lot of times in many other articles. The basic and major differences between these two are the price and number of users. Linux is the cheaper version as it is free giving it a great advantage compared to Windows as its price can go very high, depending on the package you decide yourself for. However, this fact is even if it is still so obvious that Linux is cheaper, Windows prevails over Linux in many ways, starting on the supporting technologies, which are the key in configuration of the game server, but also the number of Windows user will always be larger and therefore the server must be Windows too.

This is only a part of all of the things that need to be completed and conditions fulfilled to produce the most efficient way, that will provide all what it takes for a game to function in the multiplayer mode. Internet connection, server resources, own computer configuration, the quality of multiplayer mode, they all have to be maxed out as much as possible for best performance. The number of factors at play here are enormous, but still there are people who take care of them all and therefore as a result the game that they play, online, is worth all that effort which must be put in it.

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