VPS vs Dedicated?

[Octo]

Hello can anyone explain the difference to me i have always done dedicated thru a company is there a benefit to doing this as a vps?

[margalus]

What is vps?

[Octo]

dedicated serrver? virtual private server i think? or idk anything about this stuff

[Shane]

non dedicated is simply your SP world, opened up to vistors via your own internet connection, the other is a constant dedicated server that runs all the time from the service provider. the non dedicated is only available to vistors if your playing and online.

(or your computer acting as the server is running the game)

[margalus]

You can rent a server from a commercial hosting company, which apparently you have done before, if I'm reading this correctly.

Or you can run a server on a computer in your home for free. If you have a spare computer in your household that has even halfway decent specs you can run a server that will perform much better than rented servers. When your rent a server, the company you are renting from will have dozens of servers all running on one computer.

When you run it on a computer in your house you can guarantee that the server computer is not overloaded with a bunch of other programs using the cpu and memory at the same time. The server program is very lightweight. And since it's right there in your house you have total control over the server. Commercial server providers give you varying levels of control over the server.

[Octo]

ok so apparently i wasnt to clear right now im hosting it thru bluefang which runs dedicated...what i was looking at doing was renting a dedicated server i think its called VPS or just a dedi idk the terminology where i pay a company to have acess to a dedicated server and install all the software on it for ark... was just looking for someone who has done this and not went thru a specific company like bluefang

[Chuc]

Originally posted by Octo:

ok so apparently i wasnt to clear right now im hosting it thru bluefang which runs dedicated...what i was looking at doing was renting a dedicated server i think its called VPS or just a dedi idk the terminology where i pay a company to have acess to a dedicated server and install all the software on it for ark... was just looking for someone who has done this and not went thru a specific company like bluefang

I understand havnt done it my self, i just bought a computer set it up to run the server from my shed.

Just be careful some cost just as much as a new computer and they will tell you it's dedicated when it really isnt

[Rhett]

VPS means you're sharing one computer with other people. You're renting part of the harddrive and CPU/RAM. Performance is much worse than a dedicated machine depending on what you want to accomplish, but it should be okay for a small amount of people. We used to host our ARK server on one, around 30+ people. But Bluefang's DDOS protection is garbage, and if it's a public server, odds are you will get DDOS'd at some point.

Source: Have experience with BlueFang and GTX, and now run our own enterprise server through OVH.