I have heard of a mod that will allow you to redirect players to other servers to load balance your connections. You could setup 3 servers on a low last octet and have them redirect your clients to the higher octet servers. This way you can keep all your servers full!
Quoting James Bowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, I know that I can vouch for one of my pubs that is x.x.x.9 that it > is > full except for 3-4 hours around 5am-9am. It filled to constant usage > about > 3 days after I put it live a few months back and has been full since. I > have 2 other pubs that are x.x.x.169 and x.x.x.170 and I have had to > actually go out and get people to play on those. Finally got pub-3 up to > 14-16 players semi-consistant with about a 6-9 hour gap in play. I just > started another pub in central which is x.x.x.42 and it is starting to get > better. First day for that one was about 10-12 people on a 20 slot and it > seems to be slowly growing as I see regulars and some new people > connecting. > So I would have to say, from my experience, that the lower Ips are what > make > the traffic flow easier to your server. Then it is a matter of how you > run > your server, which is how I am trying to populate my other pubs. > > Regards, > James B. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TMRh20 . > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 1:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [hlds] players > > Well all I can guess is that as more people find out about this, the lower > your ip will have to be to get players. I consider anywhere over 50 as > high. > My little 10 man server is at x.x.x.19 I think, and it has players almost > 24/7. Dunno about using default port, for some reason I never do, but > whatever gets u players. :p > > >From: "element5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: [hlds] players > >Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:43:47 -0400 > > > >My server is .86 and traffic is non-existent now. I queried the top 20 > >servers and found most of them below .25 for last octet. Also, it > >seems if you run on the default port of 27015 your server shows up > >quicker in the list. > > > > > > >Message: 6 > > >From: "John A DeNArdo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: Re: [hlds] players > > >Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:04:41 -0400 > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >My IP`S for the server are 64.179.89.100:27016 and 27015 > > > > > > > > > seems to be semmie low no ??? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=h > tt > p://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
