TF2 Hosting: Thinking of starting a server

[StarsFan4Life]

Well, I got to thinking again about the days when I ran 2 DOD clans. It was nice to be able to provide a great gaming place for players. That time has come again, this time for TF2!

At $1.39 a slot, I can have a 32 man server for under $45 a month. Would anyone be interested in helping me get things started? (Website, forums, etc)

I was once part of EGO and during my time there we produced 3 additional servers (all from donations and good admins keeping things clean). I think I could do the same here, just need some help!

Anyone up for it?

 

[Pollock]

Does this mean we'd have a clan, too? I'd love to do that. I'm not great at TF2 or anything, but I think a clan would be fun.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

If you're going to do this, then do it right or don't do it at all. You need a dedicated server at a colocation with a burstable 100Mbps connection. Will be like $80/m plus you'll need to spend about $700 one time cost minimum on a server. And you need to keep it running for a while so it can build up a good population of players so it's usually full and fun to play on. If you have $2,000 to spend for that first year and want to burn it so we can play video games, then, :thumbsup:. But leasing one of those craptastic overloaded servers and then shutting down in three months because nobody is playing on it is going to be a waste of your time and will be another in a long line of "official" anandtech servers to come and go.

I'm getting free access to some 5Mbps colocation space very soon and will see how TF2 works with that bandwidth and if it's smooth I'll toss a server up there. The 5Mbps may actually be burstable and they have two fiber connections running in there and a very small space so, if it is burstable, it would blaze.

 

[Canai]

Good luck. LMK if you find a decent hosting company. The clan I'm in is on our third TF2 host, and they have been having "motherboard failures" that lead to random 300ms+ ping spikes for everyone in the server.

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

I have a TF2 server hosted on a VPS in a dedicated facility in Dallas. I pay about 50/month for it. No one ever plays in it and it just sits there, but it can be done on a VPS. One time when people actually played on it and there were like 15 people everyone had 30 pings, so I guess its doable.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: AnthroAndStargate
I have a TF2 server hosted on a VPS in a dedicated facility in Dallas. I pay about 50/month for it. No one ever plays in it and it just sits there, but it can be done on a VPS. One time when people actually played on it and there were like 15 people everyone had 30 pings, so I guess its doable.

Could I get the IP/hosting company of that? The clan I'm in is currently looking for a mid-US, preferably Chicago, server.

 

[KeithTalent]

I'm down and am willing to help out in the time and $$ department if there is enough interest.

I pretty much play exclusively on Slaughterhouse right now, but am more than willing to move around, especially since they added these godawful trip mines. :thumbsdown:

KT

 

[ViviTheMage]

I am willing to help make a site and play on the server...be an admin too

I have that new docsis 3.0 connection at home (50mb/5mb), and could set up a TF2 server there... I have a CS 1.6 running, and I have had around 20-22 people on it at once...without issue.

 

[Juno]

if you have a better upload speed then you can host one on your own decent machine.

i did hosted a 16-slot cs:s server on an oc3 connection two springs ago. the machine was rather old but gave a strong performance (tbird 850mhz and 768mb.) i ran that server via srcds.