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Game servers in a professional / commercial context. Absolutely no hobbyist questions.

Questions regarding game servers in a professional context only (e.g. by game companies or commercial "as a service" offerings).

This excludes any and all hobbyist questions (e.g. "I want to run a Minecraft server for my friends and me") which might be on topic at Game Development SE or Arqade. Arqade has many Minecraft server questions already that may cover what you are trying to do.

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How do I use crontab to start a screen session?

I want to create a crontab entry so that it starts screen, starts a gameserver and detaches. This is for in case the server is rebooted and I want it to automatically start this for me. 0 0 0 0 0 (command) should run upon startup. It runs a shell…
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Proxying TCP by hostname

I've got multiple game servers TCP ports on my single host machine. The goal is to have users be able to connect to server1.domain.net and have their directed based on that subdomain. My first instinct wrote the following but then I realised that…
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Minecraft DNS SRV record correct setup

I am trying to setup DNS SRV records on my domain so that my players are able to connect without entering the IP address and port of my Minecraft server. I've successfully created an A record and it's pointing to the right IP. Now, I have to create…
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Setting up SRV records for a Minecraft server

I have a Minecraft server listening on port 25566, and I'm trying to set up an SRV record on my domain so you can access that game server by just typing the IP address: play.example.com. After many tries It seems I can't get it to work. Here's what…
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HaProxy for game servers, what's wrong with my configuration?

I host a website with a game client that uses TCP for connections. I am currently looking for a way to proxy my connections from one server to my origin server. I have tested Iptables forwarding and I have found that whilst it works HaProxy seems to…
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Allocating Game Servers Across Dedicated Servers

I run a small game server hosting business for a niche game, and I rent dedicated servers to keep costs down, each of which runs many game server instances. Game servers can be created and deleted at any time, and I need to decide which machine the…
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How to make this multiplayer flash game publicly available?

I have made a ActionScript 3.0 Flash game and implemented multiplayer functionality using SmartFoxServer. Now I want to put this game on my website which is hosted on 000webhost. My game works absolutely fine on localhost. But I need to put my…
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Q9650 vs. i7-870 for Server

One of our dedicated machines we use for hosting in London has exceeded the CPU usage, so I contacted the datacenter last week for a quote on an upgrade. We are hosting game servers, and most of these are single core applications. Our current…
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How can I force GNU Screen to flush its logfile?

I am using Screen like this: screen -L -dm -S session1 -c "./game_server -options" to wrap around game servers. I log their output to a file and can send them input with: screen -r session1 -p0 -X "stuff \"this into input^M\"" The timeout between…
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Log Server Packets

Hey, Some script kiddies are crashing my clients' game servers (that are based on Linux). In order to serve the best service, I'm looking for a way to find what packets does the crashers send, so I can block it later. So, I need a simple program,…
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Isolating game server instances on a single linux machine

Beloved community of StackExchange, I'm in need of your help. I'm trying to come up with the most efficient way to isolate game server instances on a single box. For now the setup includes a debian linux distro and let's say minecraft bukkit servers…
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HaProxy TCP Subdomains

global log 127.0.0.1 local2 chroot /var/lib/haproxy pidfile /var/run/haproxy.pid maxconn 4500 user haproxy group haproxy daemon defaults mode …
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Left 4 Dead 2 dedicated server Steam authentication problems

I'm running a game dedicated server for the Valve game Left 4 Dead 2 on my housed root server. I had one running for years back when I was still running Debian Squeeze (6, oldstable, x86_64) on my servers and wanted to set one up again now on Debian…
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Should I put the OS of a game server (Minecraft) onto an SSD?

So, I plan on deploying Minecraft servers. Now, typically for consumers, putting your OS onto an SSD is a smart decision - boot up times are a lot faster. For a server environment though, I couldn't come up with a reason. My logic is that the server…
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Is running my Unreal Tournament server like this slower than it has to be?

Unreal Tournament 2004 is an old game, and it does not run on a new server. I was said to run the server like this. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/archive/gcc3 ./ucc-bin server…
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