How to get server online behind Isp restriction?

[tasman]

Hello,

 

I have a private server hosting at my home but i would like to get it online.

The problem is that my isp does not allow me to host a server.

 

Is it possible to link my server to a domain name so it can host from there?

 

 

[axeman]

You would need to hire, ideally, a dedicated server. There are also plenty of people who host gaming servers already setup for you, check out some of our supporters here: http://epochmod.com.

 

Check the Ts and Cs from your provider, if you are just setting one up for testing and to play with a couple of friends, so long as you don't advertise the server publicly that is quite often ok.

 

My provider says no public http servers, yet I host one to show my clients during testing / building of websites. Not had a complaint yet. I wouldn't consider for a minute hosting a live website as the reliability is just not there. The thought of a clients website being reliant on my 5 year old not pulling a plug from the wall would give me sleepless nights :)

 

If you want to run a full on server with more than a couple of players your home broadband is unlikely to be good enough anyway, your upload speeds need to be very beefy for an Arma server.

[TuBz]

Morning axe.. so how many do you think I could host sensibly on a virgin 160/12mb connection with an old q6600 2.4 at 2.6 ghz with ssd and buckets of ram.. any idea?

[tasman]

You would need to hire, ideally, a dedicated server. There are also plenty of people who host gaming servers already setup for you, check out some of our supporters here: http://epochmod.com.

 

Check the Ts and Cs from your provider, if you are just setting one up for testing and to play with a couple of friends, so long as you don't advertise the server publicly that is quite often ok.

 

My provider says no public http servers, yet I host one to show my clients during testing / building of websites. Not had a complaint yet. I wouldn't consider for a minute hosting a live website as the reliability is just not there. The thought of a clients website being reliant on my 5 year old not pulling a plug from the wall would give me sleepless nights :)

 

If you want to run a full on server with more than a couple of players your home broadband is unlikely to be good enough anyway, your upload speeds need to be very beefy for an Arma server.

Thanks for the response.

I dont know if my upload is good enough, i got about 80mbit/s.

 

The purpose of the server would be to play with friends and a few random people therefore i would like it to appear in the dayz commander.(max 20 people)

[Santa]

Morning axe.. so how many do you think I could host sensibly on a virgin 160/12mb connection with an old q6600 2.4 at 2.6 ghz with ssd and buckets of ram.. any idea?

One,

CPU Bottleneck

[B4ND1T]

just pay the cheapest provider to host for you. Or give someone £20 a month to let them segregate a section of their dedibox for you to use.

[BetterDeadThanZed]

Thanks for the response.

I dont know if my upload is good enough, i got about 80mbit/s.

 

The purpose of the server would be to play with friends and a few random people therefore i would like it to appear in the dayz commander.(max 20 people)

 

Good luck getting a server to appear in Dayz Commander. You're better off with Dayz Launcher or Survival Launcher. Anyway, I'd recommend you just rent a server from a GSP. It'll save you time and effort.

[tasman]

Good luck getting a server to appear in Dayz Commander. You're better off with Dayz Launcher or Survival Launcher. Anyway, I'd recommend you just rent a server from a GSP. It'll save you time and effort.

Yeah i just found out that my isp has changed his restrictions recently so i can host from my home now but indeed it does not appear in the DayZ commander

 

but it does appear on this site http://arma2.swec.se/server/list and i can connect thru the ingame server browser and the remote.

 

Is it possible to get my server listed in the Dayz commander or Dayz launcher?

[Antichrist]

 It takes a while to apprear on DZC (usually up to 24 hours) and maybe few hours for DayZ Launcher

[TuBz]

One,

CPU Bottleneck

Lol already had 4 or 5 on at a time with hardly any cpu hit at all maybe 50% :) so guess this is just telling me mines hopeless lol

[B4ND1T]

For the price of the cheapest hoster which is infinticimal costing per month, you'd rather be cheap and hammer your home computer with a server. You can't be that cheap surley?

[raymix]

Q6600 is a nice CPU (I am using it for my home server), but it is not enough for a serious Arma server, unless you are ok with sub 40 slots and probably no AI. However OC it if you can, anything over 3Ghz will result in very nice server (assuming it's a stable OC).

Buckets of RAM won't be much help, but never hurts... just like size of HDD - the more the merrier, but not needed.

One more thing to note is traffic requirements, arma server can eat up 1-2 TB of monthly data easily on a 40-50 slot server. On top of that you'll need to ask your ISP for a static IP, which usually costs and for majority of cases means only one thing - running a server.

 

Best solution is definitely dedicated server, search forums and shop around, they are not as expensive as they used to be. I would avoid VPS personally as they use shared resources with other people (and they are not really that much cheaper). There are plenty topics on the subject on these forums.

I'd also stay away from game hosters, unless you are new servers. They are more expensive (and shares resources) solutions than dedicated servers, but if you are comfy around PCs, learning curve isn't that big, more satisfying and you could end up hosting multiple servers on single machine for the price of one.