Has anyone in Calgary had any experience doing this? Specifically pay a company to host a game server.
If so, what company is good for people located in Calgary? What places offer the best pings and prices? I ping about 35-40 to nfoservers. Any suggestions?
I will go with photon and recommend to get a server from Seattle or Chicago. They had the best pings for me.
I wish I could be more help. I was part of a clan, and while I wasn't the one who owned/rented the server, I was an admin and had full access. We changed hosts a couple of times, due to "leadership" changes. I can't remember the names of companies we used though. Things are probably a little different now than they were 5 years ago.
I would assume that there's companies that do that sort of thing, you just pay them $x and you get a 24 slot server.
You could probably just get the appropriate server yourself (i.e. rent a dedicated box) and admin it yourself, but not sure if that would end up being cheaper or more expensive.
Yeah, I was thinking seattle is probably the best as well. I was thinking of just getting a dedicated server so I could load all the games I play onto it and consistently get decent pings.
For games, l4d2, tf2, bf3 (when i get it), and similar FPS games.
The gameservers.com site has servers for less than a dollar per slot, and even has free servers, might be easier and cheaper than leasing a dedicated box. Though I'm not really sure what the memory and CPU requirements are for game servers.
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