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Tekkit and Feed the Beast on HGS? We say yes!

Joeseph — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:30:28 +0000

Surely you’ve seen a YouTube Let’s Play video of someone building a nuke silo or generating energy with their windmills. It’s easier than you may think to get on a server with friends and do so!

Check out the two video guides below!

Don’t like Tekkit? Perhaps you prefer Mindcrack, Voltz, or Direwolf20? They are installed the exact same way, you can pick either video to follow.

Tekkit

Download Tekkit Here.

Feed the Beast

Download FTB here.

Don’t have a server yet? Buy a Minecraft server with HostedGameServers.com today!

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Natrual Selection 2 Tech Trees

Eric — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:41:03 +0000

One of the hardest parts about learning to being a marine commander in NS2 is knowing what to build to get what. Not knowing this means your team is going to likely loose. Don’t let your team down while you learn to be a commander! Use this tech tree.

Tech tree for NS2 Marine Commander

Don’t forget to buy one of our super sweet servers, too! $1.20/slot public servers with free Mumble, MySQL and Web hosting!

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NS2 Available on Steam!

Eric — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:34:41 +0000

Natural Selection 2 is finally out! After years in development this super polished, highly strategic, beautiful looking RTS/FPS game has released. Get the standard version for $25 or $40 for the elite version which includes a special player model!

Our hosting is ready for purchase at just $1.20/slot. Buy your dedicated game server from us and get free voice/web/mysql hosting!

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Natrual Selection II (NS2) Releases Tomorrow! $1.20/slot Public Game Server Hosting!

Eric — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:34:22 +0000

Get ready to rock!!! Natural Selection 2 releases tomorrow! FPS/RTS hasn’t had a release like this for years. Holy crap. Here we go!

If you haven’t bought Natural Selection 2 yet, it’s on steam here for $25. The creators have done a great job promoting the game and keeping the community up to date daily about everything they are doing. I can’t think of a game project that has provided as much transparency and love for the community as the Unknown Worlds guys have.

When you’re ready to take the dive, our servers are available for purchase here. Prices for public servers are $1.20 per player and private (password required) servers are just $0.90/slot.

Can’t guarantee our prices will stay that low forever, but we’ve got some capacity to fill right now. Eat it up!

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Natrual Selection 2 (NS2) Launching Soon! Our Game Servers are ready to go.

Eric — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:17:31 +0000

Natural Selection 2, the alien vs marine sci-fi RTS/FPS hybrid is releasing next month! October will be awesome. We have waited for this game for a long time and I’m sure many of our customers have too. Our NS2 game server page is coming up high in Google so we are optimistic that this game will bring in a lot of registrations.

When the game releases, be sure to check out our order page.

This is a long time coming. How do I know? Just ask Google when it’s supposed to release:

2010… hrmmm…. Should be worth the wait!

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Black Mesa – Source

Andrew — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:42:33 +0000

I have been waiting for a long time for this to come out. Relive your experience with the original Half-Life in the source engine.

Free with HL2 installed on steam.

It was greened light on steam, soon to be released on it.

They have not finished the death match or Xen levels. Maybe we can host the death match servers!

Finally released. Download here:http://release.blackmesasource.com/

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Counter-Strike Global Offensive Releases! (CS:GO)

Eric — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:43:10 +0000

Counter-Strike Global Offensive is officially released! You can pick up CSGO from Steam for just $15. I am not sure how Valve will monetize this game yet, but I’m sure we will find out soon. It looks like they opted for a low barrier of entry and will possibly release micro-transaction purchased content as they go.

Our CS:GO dedicated clan servers are hosted on low ping gigabit connections and are specially tuned to give you the purest tick rates possible. We do the work to find the variables that make your server run the smoothest and give those settings to you by default. Server hosting locations range from California to Germany and many places between.

All servers come with free voice hosting equal to the number of game server slots you purchase as well as web and database hosting free! Prices are $1.00 per slot. Click here to buy your CSGO server hosting with us. You won’t be sorry!

Let’s all bring back the days of Counter-Strike scrims!

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TF2 Mann vs Machine Update

Andrew — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:24:06 +0000

We now sell team fortress 2 Mann vs Machine servers to accommodate the new mode. This is a 32 slot server for $25.00/month and it can only run the MvM game mode.

Get your server today and be the Mann that kills the Machines.

Click here to purchase your server!

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Major security issue with Call of Duty game servers

Eric — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:32:49 +0000

We had an interesting email today about one of our servers denial of service attacking addresses on the internet. Our hosting providers monitor their internet pipes for malevolent traffic patterns and our server was setting off alarms. Their email instructed us that we had two hours to reply before they turned off our internet service entirely. We weren’t super pleased.

The source port of the traffic was 27015… a common default game server port. We looked deeper into the traffic and noticed that udp packets were being blasted off to lots of remote hosts. At first this looked like regular game server traffic but on closer inspection it was not.

Some googling turned up the reason. Apparently it is possible to hand craft a packet to all of duty 4 dedicated game servers and have them reply to the wrong source… This can be done at high velocity across lots of game servers to effectively cloak your denial of service attack. We firewalled off the source of the phony packets quickly.

The take away here (tldr) is that game servers can be used as mirrors for anonymous denial of service attacks. Pretty clever and bad all at the same time. Hopefully patches are created to prevent this kind of thing in the future. Even writing something like as game server can cause security problems. The entire call of duty server network is basically one big denial of service mirror. Wild.

Update:
If you are having this problem yourself and wondering how to fix it, here is the iptables-fu for it!
Thanks Netije!
$IPT -A INPUT -p UDP -m length --length 42 -m recent --set --name getstatus_cod $IPT -A INPUT -p UDP -m string --algo bm --string "getstatus" -m recent --update --seconds 1 --hitcount 20 --name getstatus_cod -j DROP

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HGSPanel now shows console debug information for Linux Game Servers

Eric — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:40:03 +0000

We get a lot of people who want to know why their server is not starting. The vast majority of times, the cause is a 3rd party modification of some kind. A second runner up would be a configuration file with a syntax error or missing line. This is frustrating for both the user who wants their server to ‘just work’ and the HGS Support team who constantly has to look into the reason servers aren’t starting all the time. Today, we have a solution.

HGSPanel now lets Linux Game Servers view their current output right in the browser. The new ‘Click to View Game Console Debug Logs’ link that appears when your server is running will show you all output from your game server. You will have to reload the page to see new output, but it is directly available to you without having to request SSH and go through all that rigmarole.

To prevent the files from getting too massive, the logs will only be visible when your server is started and the log file will be deleted each time you click start.

Hopefully this will help a lot of people!

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