McRackin
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I'm wondering what the top providers are for dedicated game servers. I'm thinking about renting one for my friends to screw around on with BF3
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Dedicated game servers?
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Me too. I've heard good things about End of Reality (http://eoreality.net) but I'm looking for other recommendations as well.
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art of war central & Nfo servers are the best in North America, not sure about europe though
Hypernia offers the best servers in my opinion, especially when dealing with EA Ranked Battlefield servers.
While most server companies make you use some shit control panel because they cater to noobs, Hypernia gives you complete RD access to your server. Their method of dealing with the ranked servers is to restrict your account from those folders.
So, if you aren't a noob, go with Hypernia. Otherwise get one with a control panel.
While most server companies make you use some shit control panel because they cater to noobs, Hypernia gives you complete RD access to your server. Their method of dealing with the ranked servers is to restrict your account from those folders.
So, if you aren't a noob, go with Hypernia. Otherwise get one with a control panel.
NFO has always been my preferred provider. I have tried Art of War and Gameservers and they were good, but NFO had the best up-time and best support.
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Thats not true at all.
You can NOT have RD access to any EA ranked server. Period.
Hypernia will tell you the same thing.
I currently manage 3 dedicated servers from gameservers.com, they are an amazing group of people to work with. Choopa has some amazingly fast infrastructure.
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No gameserver provider give you remote desktop access. This means you have root control of the entire server and everyone elses virtual servers and data. Hypernia uses the industry standard TCAdmin CP as well. If you do go with Hypernia make sure you read the ToS first.
We([H]ard Gaming) and End of Reality worked out a deal on servers for the community. You could just screw around on ours.
We([H]ard Gaming) and End of Reality worked out a deal on servers for the community. You could just screw around on ours.
You misread his post.
Dedicated game server.
Real dedicated servers, not the shared hosted crap.
Umm... yes I did. And it was at Hypernia, it was a feature that we were looking for when it was rented.
Then they are in direct violation of EA licensing agreement. Those servers aren't even allowed to run FTP.
That may have been ages ago on BF2 or something, but none of the new games.
You should go tell.
German Muscle
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People usually refer to shared gameservers as dedicated servers. Why buy a box when you only want 1 server? Everything still stands though as even with a box it would be using TCadmin.
German Muscle
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Proof?
Just confirmed on their forums. You can not have RDP access to EA ranked servers. You must run TCAdmin.
http://forums.hypernia.com/index.php?showtopic=2294
The OP is still up there at the top.
Since I must be full of shit about the RD thing, perhaps this will help http://www.hypernia.com/dedicated_game_servers_us.php
See the part about Full Desktop Control? Yea, that's the RD thing. i have rented game servers from quite a few places over the years, and Hypernia was my favorite for this reason. Having total control over the server is much easier to dig into the configuration.
The best control panel I have ever used though was The Planet's in house Cortex system. The worst is TCAdmin. The best servers with the lowest pings where VSK's servers located at the St Louis Bandwidth Exchange center. If I remember correctly, Art of War bought his stuff. The guy running VSK was quite the douche.
Just about every dedi host out there, lets you have RDP, no problem.
I have full RDP to our gameservers.com dedis.
But read my post up there, you cant run EA ranked shit on a RDP machine. Its on Hypernias website.
Well you could up to Oct 25th
You could, and it made things sooo much simpler when it came to doing things like streaming to PBans and Punksbusted. You could run the md5 updater right on the server itself. Nowadays, it's all done via remote console, at PBbans at least.
The folders on the ranked games were locked out via Active Directory so you can't get at them if you wanted to. The only folders you had access to dealing with those servers were the folders with the config files for the server and PB and the folders with the log files.
But yea, if it ran on Windows and you could upload it, you could have it. Lots of the game server files are in a file server on the same network as the server, so you could just browse to the file and copy them over real fast as well.
An AD lock wouldn't stop me from getting in on a machine I have access to. That's why they don't let you do that shit.
BF2 files and early BC2 files got leaked because of shit like that.
Well they did and it was awesome.
Well, I thought I would take a novel approach and ask them:
And the reply in my inbox this morning:
So, yes they do, but it will stop on the 25th with BF3. That's too bad. Might as well forgo the whole dedicated box and just rent a single instance.
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nobody was talking about BF2/BF2142. You claimed they did it with BF3.
I have had servers with them before and I have a pre-order from Art of War Central for a BF3 64 slot server.
Doesn't really tell you which is the best, but I used to run a small server co. before so I've had my share of dealings and decided to go back with them.
Does not mean there isn't other companies just as good. just some 2cents.
Doesn't really tell you which is the best, but I used to run a small server co. before so I've had my share of dealings and decided to go back with them.
Does not mean there isn't other companies just as good. just some 2cents.
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I've never rented one myself so I can't help you other then to say that during the beta the EoR servers were almost my first choice as they seemed to have fewer issues and less lag, at least for me.
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Yep, and you all claimed they never did.
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Because they dont when dealing with virtual machines. Good try though.
Comprehension not one of your strong points? Go read the OP and see where it says dedicated servers.
Here, I will quote it for you:
And they aren't even virtual machines anyways, they are just another instance of the server software running, bound to a different IP address that is available on the server box.
At least I am not trying to bullshit my way out of being wrong, I posted exactly what their sales staff said, which proved myself wrong on the BF3 being available with RD.
I guess expected more from someone with an "official" role around here.
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Jesus Christ guys. The OP obviously didn't know the distinction between a dedicated server or an instance or a VM. You solved the issue of RDP access for BF3 servers, just drop it.
German Muscle
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LOL your willing to nitpick anything apart and focus on one thing to try and make it out like your right. Whatever kid.