My experiences: Artofwar: Servers well known to be flaky and saturated, support can be slow to respond NFO: OK servers, good tech support, but not worth the much higher cost
Primary Target: Decent price, AWESOME support, and quite good servers. Just don't ask support stupid questions about how to set-up/run your server becuase they will charge you for it. Great service for those of us that know pretty much what we're doing. Been in business a long time. They have some good deals right now at http://www.primarytarget.com/specials ~BizSAR ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:54:30 -0700 From: Mark Gunnett <[email protected]> Subject: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 So, My clan right now runs all of our game servers off of a dedicated box that costs around $135 a month. This was cheaper by far since we used to run anywhere between 7-10 game servers. The keywords there are used to and was, since recently we've found that we really don't have members playing those games anymore, and therefore it's kind of pointless to be renting this dedicated box. So we are going to switch to running 1 game server (TF2, 24 slots) from a GSP. Now here is a listing of the GSP's I've looked at, pricing wise: Gameservers.com - $71.95 Nuclearfallout.net - $65.99 ($68.98 with a HLStatsX Installation) MyInternetServices.com - $45.00 ArtOfWarCentral.com - $39.70 Now, I myself have personal experience with Nuclearfallout.net. As far as I could tell, the NFO servers I have hosted weren't exactly all that great, but they weren't bad either. I always here crap about the GameServers.com servers, but I don't know from personal experience if they are worth that kind of money. Now, I only heard of MyInterenetServices.com because of the deal they had going on for BF:BC2. We can't exactly host ranked servers ourselves so we looked around for a GSP and they seemed to be doing a deal on BF:BC2 32 slot servers. Anyways, I'm unsure of them either for a TF2 server. Now, I have heard of ArtOfWarCentral.com, and I have played on a server on one of their boxes and I didn't like the way the server... felt. But that could just be me. If anyone can recommend which of these would be the best to go with, or if you can recommend a different host that offer's TF2 servers around $70 or under for 24 slots, I would appreciate it greatly. We're trying to cut back costs with the amount of server use we currently have, and a GSP is the way to go currently. Thanks, -- "All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." - Unknown "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." - Abraham Lincoln Mark J. Gunnett [EoE]SniperFodder{AL} ~ Stephen Leacock<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/stephen_leacock.html> - "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so." _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
