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Questions tagged [gameserver]

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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Any ideas about securing a Windows 2003 enterprise X64 gameserver?

I have a MUonline (link) gameserver running on Windows 2003 enterprise X64. I had a website running there too. I do not know much about security here so I'm asking for some tips or tutorials you know about this as my server was hacked (I don't know…
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Preventing Denial of Service Attacks

What's the most effecient way to prevent DoS attacks for game servers? Currently I do something like this: iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 27015 -m length --length 28 -j DROP Is it the best way?
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Advantage of using a smartfox server

we are trying to outsource the server side of our game applicaton to someone. They recommend using http://www.smartfoxserver.com/ instead of our traditional php/mysql combination. Our game is in actionscript and will be using social aspects of…
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Connection Refused (GRE Tunnel - FiveM)

I am running a game server using Vultr. What I am trying to do is run the game server (backend server) through a GRE Tunnel. For this, I am using x4b.net for my GRE Tunnel. A few things to note: The guide that I used is listed here:…
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How do I connect a subdomain to a custom gameserver through DNS or some other means

So, me and a friend built a custom gameserver in java. This gameserver listens for HTTP and TCP messages from a specific ip / port given to it (Either localhost or the device's external IP address for port forwarding). Then, you can take that IP /…
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How to have systemctl track the spawned process of a script?

As a followup to one of my previous posts, I'm using systemd to run a GMod server on Ubuntu 18.04. My systemd script looks like this: [Unit] Description=Gmod Server After=network.target [Service] User=rooday # the user I normally run run_gmod.sh…
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Multiple CSGO servers with each a unique IP assigning to one domain

I got some CSGO servers up and running using LGSM. I am trying to assign a sub domain (s1, s2, s3 etc.) to each gameserver but only s1.domain.com can be found in the Serverlist. To achieve this each gameserver should have a unique IP address so s2…
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iptables: setting specific rules to IP aliases

We run several game servers all using one port with the use of IP Aliasing, the game servers bind to a specific aliased IP that belongs to the main dedicated server. I've setup netplan already and it worked, however I wasn't able to setup…
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Using multiple IPs on one machine for web and game server

We are looking to host a game server. The game we are going to be setting up a server for is subject to DDoS from other servers, players, etc. Many other server and administrators have pointed out that the game only uses TCP ports and most…
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Setup a good game servers?

I have a very bad experience in setting up a game server. My fail experience was that I put all the servers into one (mail, database, game and web server). In the end, mail server did not handle mails properly (cant send X number of emails),…
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How to manage hardware resources efficiently in a cloud gaming service?

I am creating this small cloud gaming service (GeforceNow wannabe) which is powered by windows 10 Pro and VMWware. All other aspect of it is taken care of, Like streaming and data compression and etc. On the other side i have like 50 indie game…
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Ubuntu Server / IpTables / Port Forwarding / NAT

I got referred here from StackOverflow. I'm using IpTables to forward an incoming port on one server to an external server (not on LAN) and the same port. The problem I'm having is that I have to use MASQUERADE or it will not forward. So all users…
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How does one set a dedicated IP address to a minecraft server on Windows Server 2008 R2?

So I bought a dedicated server from staminus.net just for running a Minecraft server. On Minecraft, the default port is 25565. I am wondering how one makes it so that there is no port on the IP address for the Minecraft server. The reason I don't…
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Cater to multiple countries?

I run a game server off a linux machine with a single IP address masked by a proxy. The box is located in an LA datacenter, and for players in some other countries, they experience a high ping compared to USA players. Is it possible to host the…
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