A little help regarding "Hives"

[Artist (DayZ) 0]

I'm fairly new to Dayz and I just wanted to get my head a round a few things.

- Private Hives, These are servers that people spawn in fresh and are hosted by other people?

Which brings me to ask, on youtube I have heard of servers that you log onto, and then when you log onto another server, you're in the same place with the same loot and stuff or something?

I'm not sure I'm fully understanding this all and was hoping someone could explain to me what EXACTLY private hives and regular hives are? Or the main hive?

Thanks

[maxamillion12345 21]

The main hive is the database that is officially hosted by the dayz mod team, on servers running this hive you can keep your gear that is in your inventory and your stats, but cars and tents and other things do not transfer beetween servers.

Private hive servers are servers that are run outside of this main hive and most have individual databses for that server, however there are some private hives that share a database across multiple servers. These servers are run by different people who often customise them adding extra vehciles, guns etc, and they also host different maps from the chernarus main hive map.

There are not many normal hive servers left anymore due to hackers but the best way to filter servers easily is to use dayz commander.