Server Doesn't Work

[vonunov]

Jg99 how will having a VPS solve this? You know some people like to know how servers actually work instead of relying on companies to do it all for them. I get really anoyed by your constant advertising on this forum, when i joined here i thought i was joining an open source community now with your constant adverts for hosting and VPS I may as well be on a microsoft board!
I dont have anything against VPS hosts if thats the way you want to go, they certainly make decent servers if you stick within the limits of their capability. But i also want to encourage people to run servers themselves, learn about hosting, learn about the game, maybe these people will be the next group of Devs to keep this game alive

I wouldn't trust Jg99's company recommendations, but, to be fair, a VPS won't do it all for you and will certainly allow you to learn and know how the server works. When you get a VPS, you get a virtual machine with a fresh, bare OS of your choice (with, say, SSH enabled). It's your responsibility to connect to it, install the software you need, ensure that the server is kept secure, etc. It's not really different from running the server at home except that you don't have to manage the port forwarding in the networking equipment.

So, in short, when you get a VPS, you are still running the server yourself, it just isn't in your bedroom. People generally get those so they can have good bandwidth and have a [virtual] machine with resources dedicated to running the AC server. I don't think it's a good solution to ignorance of simple things like port forwarding, though, because if you can't figure that out then you aren't going to do very well running a server remotely.

To be clear, I agree with you that a VPS won't really solve this problem fully.

Thanks for confirming my advice. :)