Don't use the server hosters OVH

[Tremain BronzeBeard]

Just a warning to stay away from OVH dedicated Australian serversfor ark. Your server will not list on the unoffical in-game ark list! You can direct connect and once added to favourites you can reconnect but no matter what i tried it never showed up on the unoffical list. Even when the server had 15+ of my friend on for a week. Either how ark grabs it's server list is broken (unlikely as server hosted with different providers pops up on the unoffical list) or more probable its a fault on OVH's end.

At least 5 OVH users have had the same issue as me and it's not just games like ARK that it doesn't show. I have not recieved a refund from them and neither has any of the other users i have spoken to that have had servers hosted by OVH.

[Desertworld]

i am sorry but that reasoning is ridiculous.. the serverlist in ark is HUGE. more than 20.000 servers are registered there. if you want your server to show up there i can only tell you that this is nearly impossible.. you can add it to your favorites via steam browser and it will show up as your favorite server ingame too. that's how most players do it. or just visit the website www.arkservers.net and register your server there so that more people will actually find it.. you can't blame the host for the way the ark developers programmed the ingame serverlist.. it just can't find so many servers and shows just a bunch that it can find..

[Desertworld]

Originally posted by dahlskebank:

OVH dedicated gives you a private IP, heck even VPS does, all you need to do is open the ports. But isn't OVH overly priced for running Ark server?

haha that's even funnier. so basically OP doesn't know how to open the port that is needed for communicating with the steam master server... good job there

[Gnomebo]

You can't do a lot wrong using ARK server manager it opens the neccesary ports.

Can confirm after running both a ARK and Conan server off an Australian OVH dedicated server that the servers will not list in the unofficial games list. Although players can connect to the server meaning the ports are open not as Desertworld describes it "OP doesn't know what he's doing" clearly he doesn't know what he's doing. Because if players can direct connect to the servers over arkservers.net it means the ports are opened! If the server OP had not opened the ports all communication would be disabled. When I checked my OVH dedicated servers IP's geolocation it also showed it to be in Canada. My guess is OVH uses some sort of Fail Over IP and ARK and similar games don't register this and thus don't show the server on the ark server unofficial list. But if the server is added manually you can connect to it.

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Desertworld:

Originally posted by dahlskebank:

OVH dedicated gives you a private IP, heck even VPS does, all you need to do is open the ports. But isn't OVH overly priced for running Ark server?

haha that's even funnier. so basically OP doesn't know how to open the port that is needed for communicating with the steam master server... good job there

Not everyone is tech wizard, and if you go to a hosting service you either expect it as a setting in the control panel or that they have opened the ports so it shows up in the listing in the game you host the server for.

But either the OP didn't contact them to find out and get help from them, he just came here. Which I agree with is overreacting to a problem that could be easily be solved by either yourself or contacting the service host.

Though would agree to stay clear from server hosting services if their support is just non existing, but that is info we can't pull out of the OP post if it is or not.

[Kresslack]

Originally posted by Gnomebo:

You can't do a lot wrong using ARK server manager it opens the neccesary ports.

Can confirm after running both a ARK and Conan server off an Australian OVH dedicated server that the servers will not list in the unofficial games list. Although players can connect to the server meaning the ports are open not as Desertworld describes it "OP doesn't know what he's doing" clearly he doesn't know what he's doing. Because if players can direct connect to the servers over arkservers.net it means the ports are opened! If the server OP had not opened the ports all communication would be disabled. When I checked my OVH dedicated servers IP's geolocation it also showed it to be in Canada. My guess is OVH uses some sort of Fail Over IP and ARK and similar games don't register this and thus don't show the server on the ark server unofficial list. But if the server is added manually you can connect to it.

Different ports.

[Gnomebo]

Harrekin players can get on the server. They can log in and run around. The server just doesn't list on unofficial list with OVH.

[Kresslack]

Originally posted by Gnomebo:

Harrekin players can get on the server. They can log in and run around. The server just doesn't list on unofficial list with OVH.

Because they use two separate ports.

[Gnomebo]

Yes but arkservers can communicate with port 27015 and the game uses 7777

[Gnomebo]

Originally posted by Ydyp:

Originally posted by Desertworld:

haha that's even funnier. so basically OP doesn't know how to open the port that is needed for communicating with the steam master server... good job there

Not everyone is tech wizard, and if you go to a hosting service you either expect it as a setting in the control panel or that they have opened the ports so it shows up in the listing in the game you host the server for.

But either the OP didn't contact them to find out and get help from them, he just came here. Which I agree with is overreacting to a problem that could be easily be solved by either yourself or contacting the service host.

Though would agree to stay clear from server hosting services if their support is just non existing, but that is info we can't pull out of the OP post if it is or not.

Ydyp he obviously did port foward correct as he had 15+ players (friends) on the server who all joined over the arkservers.net listing.

[Kresslack]

Originally posted by Gnomebo:

Originally posted by Ydyp:

Not everyone is tech wizard, and if you go to a hosting service you either expect it as a setting in the control panel or that they have opened the ports so it shows up in the listing in the game you host the server for.

But either the OP didn't contact them to find out and get help from them, he just came here. Which I agree with is overreacting to a problem that could be easily be solved by either yourself or contacting the service host.

Though would agree to stay clear from server hosting services if their support is just non existing, but that is info we can't pull out of the OP post if it is or not.

Ydyp he obviously did port foward correct as he had 15+ players (friends) on the server who all joined over the arkservers.net listing.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8571-GLVN-8711

[Tremain BronzeBeard]

Can confirm arkservers.net saw the server.

[Tremain BronzeBeard]

I didn't come directly here i have been testing this all week to no avail. I am just informing you that if you do use OVH it will now show up on the unoffical ark server list. Until they fix that do not use them as a server provider. I don't believe this to be an over reaction i am just trying to say that if you do get your server hosted by them it will not show and up and you will lose the money you spent just like me.

[cfbhbfgbf]

I have the same issue with some servers dont know where the problem, No matter what i do the servers dont show up in MY survivor or Favs.

[Gnomebo]

With OVH once Fav and having once been on the server it shows in survivor and favs just not unofficial

[Desertworld]

Let me ask again: where and how are the ports forwarded? If that host is using Windows servers and you have full
access you can basically just go into the extended firewall and allow the shootergameserver.exe. You don't even need to struggle with ports. Maybe the host is also using another hardware firewall in their server center by usually just allowing the .exe is enough to let it show up on the steam server list...

By the way you do realize that there are more than 20000 unofficial ark servers and expecting the server to be shown every time in the small list you receive ingame is nearly impossible, right?

By the way, what is the server IP? I bet if you allowed all ports (or the .exe) correctly you can easily find it on the steam server list...