I recently had to shut-down my Asia / Pacific region TF2 server - that was formerly hosted in Hong Kong.
I had an issue with my hosting provider - either with their infrastructure not being able to handle the network traffic, or there inability to find and clean-out DoS-related endpoints (either sources or targets) on their network. In either event, the end-result is that I am no longer hosting a TF2 server in that region. There seem to be TF2 players over there that are under-serviced, and down-right hungry for non-Vanilla/non-stock TF2 servers. During most of the time I had the server running in Hong Kong, it was getting TWICE as many player-visits as it's North America equivalent. So, there seems to be a "supply-and-demand" thing going-on in that region, where there are lots of players, but few good servers for them. I know there are lots of multi-server game-communities out there on the Internet(s). So, what I am suggesting to you, is that you consider putting-up a TF2 server somewhere in that region. It would not necessarily have to be in Hong Kong specifically - just somewhere in that region. I had players from ALL over that region - but had the most "active" return/regular players from Hong Kong, Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan. Apparently (based on what I seen in my HLStatsX:CE pages), I was attacking players allow-over that region, including: 1,977 Players = Hong Kong 1,238 Players = Korea (South - "presumably") 1,211 Players = Russian Federation (some of this might be to my N.A. server) 347 Players = China 276 Players = Thailand 237 Players = Taiwan 183 Players = Kazakhstan 176 Players = Viet Nam 138 Players = Singapore 124 Players = Sweden 90 Players = Philippines 89 Players = Japan 86 Players = Macau 77 Players = Indonesia 66 Players = Malaysia 57 Players = Australia 44 Players = India 34 Players = Mongolia 12 Players = Cambodia 10 Players = New Zealand Anyway, I thought this would be both an opportunity for some community to expand, and for the players over there (among whom are obviously my ex-players) to have some decent servers available for them. Take it or leave it as you will, this is all just FYI/suggestion. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
