Project Zomboid

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How to configure a dedicated 'rented' server (Ubuntu)
By Aiteron
   
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Introduction
Full guide will be soon!

Here shortly -
1. Rent a PZ server (dedicated server or VPS).
2. Install linux (Ubuntu 20).
3. Configure firewall for rent server.
4. Check IP and password (of the server) to connect by SSH.
5. Connect to server by SSH.
5*. An advice: install remote desktop on linux and configure remote access to desktop (Ubuntu desktop and x2GO for Ubuntu for example).
6. Update the system.
7. Create new user in system.
8. Reboot the system.
8. Connect to server by SSH (or remote desktop) as a new user.
9. Install Project Zomboid dedicated server by steamCMD.
10. Configure your server (Guide: Configure server - build 41 MP)
11. Configure start-server.sh script
Set "-Xms16g -Xmx16g" where 16 - is how much RAM for your server
12. Start server through that script.