LastAct 8 Posted August 25, 2012 I am interested in buying a server for DayZ. To host&own it for me and my friends to play on. Since this is my first time buying a server I like to known the cost and what company i should buy the server from that is decent. Hopefully no lag and all those horrible things. I live in the US in California. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deren93@hotmail.com 95 Posted August 25, 2012 If you have the funds, buy a dedi and host it yourself - or rent a managed one from a company...http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/55657-start-here-a-beginners-guide-to-dayz-servers-and-administration/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rogue246 28 Posted August 25, 2012 (edited) I have a server from www.defconservers.com. They have a location in San Jose, CA which should work for you. Server runs smooth as glass and except for the annoying beta updates every other week I don't have any complaints. Edited August 25, 2012 by Rogue1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
santiagoaquino6@hotmail.com 37 Posted August 25, 2012 Might want to go for a private hive/password if you want to play with your friends and not get attacked by hackers every other day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KField86 237 Posted August 25, 2012 (edited) If you want to go the easy route, just get a managed game server from a company like Vilayer. I highly recommend Vilayer as they have some great people on customer support, their servers are top of the line, and very easy to manage as far as updates/restarts, etc etc. They are a little bit more expensive then other companies like HFB, but the performance is simply amazing. I absolutely love my 40 slot Vilayer server. When the server has been restarted recently, the load times are almost instantaneous. At the end of the day, there is a reason why Vilayer is currently the most used provider for DayZ servers at around 45% of DayZ servers being run by them. The only reason Vilayer is a bit more expensive is that they are based out of the UK, so you have to deal with the dollar ratio from dollars to euros. My 40 slot is $48 a month. Not bad at all, especially if you have friends helping. Goto Vilayer.com and get some information from them. They also have teamspeak and if they are on, they will answer any questions you may have. There servers are also pre-whitelisted, and what this means is that every server they can offer you is guaranteed to get an instance ID from the DayZ dev team. Your server will generally be up within 24 hours of purchase, but most of the time it's even quicker. Mine was setup and playing within 10 hours. They also offer some different locations compared to a company like HFB and Vilayer also has timezone changing as a feature. Some other companies(Hate to call out HFB) do not allow you to change your servers timezone once you select it during purchase. This was the big reason I didn't go with them, as well as them not offering a server based in NY at the time I was looking to buy.The timezone changer is awesome though, because you can keep the server day-light all the time if you wanted to. I generally do this because a lot of people don't like playing in nighttime servers, so I can have the server running a UTC -6 timezone during the afternoon, and then change it to UTC + 6 during late evening hours so people who play later at night will be able to play when it's daytime in the server. It's really nice, although I don't do this all the time and I do have a shortened night cycle on my server. This also may be why my server is high population all the time now after it gets past say 1pm est. It being in New York also helps since a lot of people in the north east play this game, and there are not that many NE server hubs besides New York. PA is another one but you don't see too many of those. Edited August 25, 2012 by KField86 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
