Server host suggestion??

[Nova]

Hey!

I'm with Fibreservers and they absolutely suck.

1) The Admin panel website takes about 5 minutes per page to load ( about 50+ minutes when im at work ).
2) cannot add moderators to my server
3) the texting files are overly complicated and I have no iea how to add mods like ban lists, regenerative maps etc
4) Cannot see player statistics etc
5) cannot see logs from when player enter and leave so that I can ban the ID of hackers that were on before I logged on.

Does anybody have any suggestions for server hosts that Is either in Canada or close to it and has all of these 1-5 points fixed/working?

[Zig-Zag-Man]

Автор сообщения: Dances With Zombies

i think my first test will be to join a gameserver server in texas, to see if i have a good connection.

that's for the tip though, they are a few $ cheaper.

NO dont leave ping perfect donjt fix whats not broken you might regret it you know what happenes when you go cheap you get what you pay now thats my opinion i pay 24 dollars for my 16 slot server but i been with them for a long time since alpha 1 so i bartered with them and got agreat price with great service PING PERFECT that is

[Tacticat]

i've checked out 4 servers in LA, 2 in San jose, and 3 in Texas.

what i've noticed that's possitive: the ping is the same as ping perfects, BUT

the negative: 1: ping fluctuation, it will go from 90 to 130 and back and forth.. ping perfect is steady. what worries me about that is i don't think their servers are pure dedicated ones. meaning on a busy day my connection will be all over the place.

the 2nd bad thing about them, is they don't have servers in california area or closer.

so while i think they may be a good alternative, the few extra $ i pay at ping perfect for an 8 slots and 8 mumble slots is worth it.

gameserver : $12.35 for an 8 slot with 10 teamspeak
pingperfect: $16.72USD for an 8 slot with 8 mumble

so ping perfect is 35.4% more expensive. or in this example 4.37$ more.

which would save me 52.44$ a year. which would net me in theory, 4.2 months more at gameservers for the same amount of money.

[Tacticat]

i need to do a bit more research

[Zig-Zag-Man]

with PP i have my server out of los angles

[Tacticat]

well after doing a lot of research i found a lot of bad reviews on gameserver

these are a few forums warning against gameserver:

http://www.gsprating.com/gameservers/

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Gameserverscom/internet/Gameserverscom-Not-Dedicated-servers-Gameserverscom-Internet-830134


ping pefect answers and solves my problems in 10 minutes from a complaint. and when you're dealing with an alpha game, and editing your own files, things go wrong all the time..

so i think for a the hands off players, gameservers might be ok.. but i'm gonna stick with ping perfect because it's 100% reliable.

another thing that worries me about gameserver, on their forum they have a place for Customer Testimonials

http://forums.gameservers.com/viewforum.php?f=21&sid=b26c92624b2e18e4e840e3a3b65bea55

that being said people only posted; Feb 20,Mar 07,Jun 05

--that's 3 happy customers over a period of 7 months.

i wont post all the stats, but only 6 happy customers betweeen 13-14.. that's an average of 1 person per two months.. which again, doesn't give me a lot of confidence.

those aren't good statistics.

[Zig-Zag-Man]

woo hoo ping perfect is da winner

[Tacticat]

http://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?5968-Pingperfect-com-7DTD-Server-Hosting/page2

here is a massive forum by ping perfect on the 7d2d website. on it many people claim they have tried 3-4 servers, pingperfect being the best.

[Zig-Zag-Man]

and im paying 24 bucks for a 16 slot server from them

[Tacticat]

So my conclusion is this

Gameserver, while cheaper, do in fact put multiple servers/games on the same hardrive. When servers on both ends are full of players, it can cause lag. Lag spikes have been reported as common occurances by dozens of reviews. Though i will add, some people never experience this. People have also reported their tickets sometimes take 17-24 hours to be answered

Pingperfect, has pure dedicated servers. It also from my experience, over 20 tickets issued, has a 10 minute or less response time. If i mess up a code, they will go into my files and fix it.. they are amazingly talented. They are also a smaller company, and more focused on keeping their consumers happy.

So if you're new to this game, and you just want to ♥♥♥♥ around a little. I'd go with a gameserver server.

but if you're a serious host, and you enjoy a more stable and reliable server, i'm going to have to go with ping perfect. 35% more is worth it for the response time and amazingly reliable connection which NEVER falters.

On my server, i have people playing from all around the world and many parts of the united states, never had a problem.

[Tacticat]

oh and as for fibreservers.. they are just horrible... just google them.. lol

[Nova]

does ping perfect have player tracking in their admin panel? can I make my friends moderators through their admin panel? And how easy is it to add mods? How fast have they added the last update?

[Tacticat]

the updates are typically up in 1-2 hours from release.

adding mods is very easy. you have full control over the harddrive and all its files.

i've never made other people moderators, so i don't know how easy that is

but if you want a feature added to the UI script, you just tell them and they will figure it out for you..

so literally you could put in a ticket," hey i want to make other people moderators, what do i need to do" and they will answer you in 10 min..

they are amazing

[Nova]

kk ill try em out

[primcrew]

i use gameserver too for host and i still go there to reset server if needs be but i use http://games.frontrunnertek.com/index.php/7-days-to-die/7d2d-server-manager server manager.
it has what you want you can all the people who logged into yourserver, how many times, how long. when the last time, you can ban them and you can also assign different colors to players and track them on the map and see where they go.