I am using gameservers right now but they are a little pricey. Just wondering if there is somewhere to get a list of companies that provide server rentals for BC2. Through some searching I found lowpinggameservers.com who seem to be very cheap ($0.89/slot) and offer 100% money back if you're not happy.
Who do you guys use and are you happy? What do you pay?
Posted Apr 12, 2010, 2:52 AM UTC
Hypernia (I am from Australia)... really good prices, beats the hell out of gamearena imho.
nfoservers.com - kind of expensive at 32 slots for 64.79 (after 10% off for early adopting BFBC:2) but they offer great service and their interface for BFBC:2 is better than the others I've seen or used.
Why are there no local Toronto servers? Everything is Montreal or New York. Anyone spot a Toronto host?
Toronto would be a logical choice since almost all of southern ontario ISPs hubs are there.
EDIT: it seems that their Montreal server has a ping of 35-55. That's pretty acceptable.
You get what you pay for. I use Gameservers personally but I know for a fact that when you pay less, you are usually one of 12-15 "servers" being hosted on one physical server. Granted they expect only a few of them to be populated simultaneously, but if you run into severe lag and crashing, you know why. While working with i3D, I asked them what they use and it's 4 per server. I have no idea what they charge though.
My friends clan uses a gameserver box and they had to reduce down to 24 man to stop the rubberbanding lag.
Although thats more a DICE server code issue than a server provider issue. But some providers don't get the issue.
I am not knocking gameservers though, they are rock solid on a lot of levels imo.
The best server that ive ever used was in a scrim against Binary. I believe their host is Primary Target. Ive never heard of them before the scrim, but I was getting incredible reg. Not sure what their prices are, but it was a damn good server. FPS Gaming Solutions is another good server provider, but I dont think ive played on any of their bc2 servers.
Branzone has a special for 32 man servers going at $32/mo.
Wow, that is a great deal!
I am curious how long that lasts though ie: after 1 month your back up to $60 ish
It says forever. http://www.branzone.com/specials.php
oh my, i am gonna have to grab one now then.