Post by Eorl @ 12:48pm 12/10/13 | 37 Comments
You will be happy to know we have Australia's most experienced game server team, and everyone that works here is a hardcore gamer, so we understand what you want from your dedicated servers. When we go home at night we'll be playing on the servers you rent from us, so they have to be the best servers in Australia.
Because AusGamers has always been about our love for Australian gamers, we are offering Battlefield 4 servers for $1 per slot. Not "from" $1 per slot - there are no extras for "debranding", no charges for public or private, just the lowest price we can do for every server. Highest quality, lowest price, most experienced and most humble: what's not to love?
We aren't quite ready to take pre-orders; we are in the final stages of integrating our new server rentals systems into the AusGamers site. We don't want you to go off and pre-order from someone else: you'd pay more for lower quality, and we'd hate that. If you want to know immediately when pre-orders are ready to go, or just if you have any questions, please visit our new server rentals information page.
Feel free to ask general questions in the comments or using our contact page, look for "Malthius" to reply. Malth is the newest member of the AusGamers team (though I'm sure you've all seen him around before) and he'll be handling all your server rental questions.
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Posted 01:21pm 12/10/13
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Posted 02:30pm 12/10/13
We've had a couple I think
Posted 02:41pm 12/10/13
We'll have CS:GO soon after launch, but with a few restrictions at the start. If you hit the contact form I can let you know when its ready and what the restrictions are. As we develop the service further, we'll have complete CS:GO support.
Posted 04:14pm 12/10/13
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Posted 08:25pm 12/10/13
Will these servers be unmetered for Bigpond Customers?
Posted 11:48pm 12/10/13
In the case of BF4, you won't be able to run one from a VPS. Just like now you can't run a ranked server from home, even for a few mates. That's a case of licensing mainly.
Posted 12:50pm 13/10/13
1: Many/All VPS providers (including Mammoth Networks) do not permit game servers. They are targets for denial of service attacks, which providers that offer budget / mid range VPS pricing can't afford denial of service mitigation / prevention systems. High end VPS providers would accept game servers, but the pricing would be un-economic compared to what a GSP (game service provider) can offer.
2: Game servers tend to use CPU and RAM in a way that is quite different from most other online services, and some budget/mid VPS systems aren't designed around prolonged very high CPU demands. Again, you could get someone to quote on that, but I'd expect it'd be prohibitively expensive.
3: Since Battlefield 2, the dedicated server software has only been available to "Ranked Server Providers". For BF4, there are only (IIRC) 11 companies world wide that qualified for the RSP program, so you would simply not be able to get access to the software to run. If you did, EA has a black ops team on call 24/7 to hunt down and destroy anyone that starts a non-authorised server. (The security is honestly so tight that it is non-trivial for us to keep authorised servers online.)
However, for something like MineCraft or CS:GO, or indeed any of the games with a freely available dedicated server package, you can run them yourself if you want. WIth those games, you are paying for our professional data centre (one of the best connected in Australia) and my time to swear at the server so you don't have to. Game devs these days don't polish the sever software anywhere near as much as the game client, or even the server software from a few years ago, so its often just not worth the bother compared to a pretty small monthly cost to know your server will always be online, up to date and lag free.
Posted 05:41pm 13/10/13
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Posted 07:34pm 13/10/13
BF4 supports 64 vs 64?!?!?!?
Posted 08:05pm 13/10/13
Posted 09:19am 14/10/13
AusGamers.
Posted 10:42am 14/10/13
I've got support for ArmA 3 in progress. I'm pretty certain we wouldn't be able to do it for $1 per slot though, but I'm sure you aren't surprised - the thing is a resource hog of the highest order.
DayZ is definitely something we'll do; there are a few people in the office who were big DayZ fans. Same comment though: it probably won't be cheap.
Posted 02:20pm 14/10/13
And to re iterate Adsa's question, will these servers be unmetered for Bigpond users?
Posted 08:29am 15/10/13
Posted 09:14am 15/10/13
Servers can handle up to 64 regular players and up to 70 total players.
A 70-slot server with 64 regular players, 4 spectators, and 2 commanders.
A 68-slot server with 64 regular players and 4 spectators, but commander mode disabled.
A 64-slot server with only regular players.
A 62-slot server with 32 regular players and 30 spectators.
Malth will have to answer your question though. Just adding info on the side.
Posted 11:07am 15/10/13
Any connected player (not queued players) take a slot, so we expect that most customers will at least want 4 extra slots: 2 for commanders and 2 for spectators. Basically, the customers who wanted 64 slots in BF3 will want 70 slots in BF4, the customers who wanted 32 slots in BF3 will want 36-38 slots in BF4.
There are no price differences for slots for different purposes.
Posted 11:45pm 16/10/13
Posted 11:53pm 16/10/13
not sure where you're getting that information from, there's redundant gbit links dedicated to these game servers
Posted 12:02am 17/10/13
I'll help you shall I? I got it from the horse's mouth...
"Our current connection is 200mbit incoming (from the internet to our facility) and 200mbit outgoing (from our facility to the internet)."
http://www.mammoth.net.au/hosting/datacentre
To me 200mbit is pissant... and IMHO explains the suboptimal experience when trying to have a BF3 session their servers
Posted 12:09am 17/10/13
if you've had any lag issues playing on our servers it was most likely due to link saturation during a dns amplification attack, which BF servers around the globe are suffering to
Posted 12:12am 17/10/13
Posted 12:22am 17/10/13
Posted 09:22am 17/10/13
Out of interest, what about the other 2 providers, GameArena and GameServers? What did you think of them.? I know GA is gone now, but did you use their servers?
Posted 10:24am 17/10/13
To add to what Jim said:
Jim would beat me senseless if I tried to host a single game server on the Mammoth Networks service. That isn't what that datacentre is currently designed for, and he'd never accept the risk of running game servers alongside our corporate customer's VPS services.
I've had feedback from customers with servers on Hypernia, GameServers and what will now be AusGamers, and while all three suffer from DDOS attacks, our network seems to be the most resilient and (as Jim said) we are working to improve that all the time.
Posted 10:27pm 17/10/13
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Posted 02:39pm 25/10/13
Posted 10:24am 17/10/13
umm how will this service (BF4) be better service than hypernia? I am happy to support ausgamer and I see its more than half the price of hypernia so that's cool, but mammoth.net have a pissant connection into and out of their data centre, and I'm fairly sure that when I've played on their servers in BF3 it was a lag fest.. I've played on lots of hypernia servers and "generally" they have been the preferred hosts for me. Don't get me wrong at $1.95/slot + a $15 / monthly fee hypernia is expensive as hell, but at least perhaps you get what you pay for - a playable server...
Since GA went down I have ben using hypernia and as for quality, I don't see it. servers have crashed atleast once a day during peek and sometimes twice. for there price, the quality isn't there.
Posted 03:30pm 25/10/13
Posted 03:39pm 25/10/13