Hello Everyone,

Our knowledge base wiki is now online and part of our forums. You will now find at the bottom of our forums a new section that dedicated solely to tutorials on how to get things done in the realm of servers & business.

They are a little bit empty currently, however they will be filling up as new articles are written by our staff. We do also want to invite everyone to join in and write your own tutorials, the more the better.

The wiki is designed as a section where users can come read and learn how to do things and then ask questions based on that individual tutorial. So the more tutorials we can write, the more we can help everyone out.

Nothing is too small, so if you have something that has stumped you at one time or know something that causes people a headache, post up your guide and help everyone else out!

See you there!

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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising – Swing And A Miss, I am sure you are all wondering what I am getting at with this catchy title, but if you are a Game Server Provider (GSP), you most likely already have a good idea.

Dragon Rising is an all new game released this past week that was missing the biggest thing that a game needs if they offer multiplayer.

DEDICATED SERVER FILES!

Thats right, this all new game was released with no way of hosting your own server for the game from a dedicated server, talk about an epic fail. As we have all come to love, today’s game producers are just not in sync with the demands of today’s PC gaming world and Dragon Rising is another great example.

We all can hope that server files are released, but as they were not released on day one, the last nail is most likely long nailed into the cauffin of this game.

Ugh..

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One of the popular questions we see from day to day, is what exactly is a hardware firewall and what is the purpose. As most guess, they are very similar to a software firewall you may be running on your local work station, however they do differ quite greatly in how they are used and the protection they provide.

A hardware firewall is a relatively simple piece of hardware, they are placed between the out side world (Usually the internet) and the section of the network you are needing to protect. They are specially built to block unwanted protocols and network activity from entering and/or leaving the protected network segment behind the firewall.

Firewalls use a configuration file that contains a set of rules, better known as an ACL (Access List). The ACL is much like any configuration file in the sense it contains all the information needed in order for your firewall to know what information to block and which to forward on to your back-end secure network.

One of the most important things to remember when you begin working with your first firewall is: ACL’s are read from the top down, so when you are configuring your firewall, always remember that a rule farther down in the list will NOT override an above rule. So if you block all access in line #1 and then allow access in line #2, line #2 will not allow access as in line #1 you already blocked it.

In many cases you will setup the firewall to block all incoming requests from the outside world beyond those you may want to have access. For instance, if you are running a web server you may want to block all access to the server (SSH especially) except for port 80 (http) and 443 (SSL). This way anyone trying to “hack” into your web server will have extremely little access to work with in order to breach your web server.

Now you may be wondering, “If I block all other ports, how am I going to access my server and/or network behind the firewall?” – This something that can be accomplished in a few different ways:

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There comes a time in every hostler’s life when they need to decide which route they will pursue. Deciding to do Colocation or a Dedicated server is a decision that needs to make wisely, as it can greatly determine your success in the hosting industry.

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Lets go into detail of what each is:

Colocation:

Colocation is where you purchase a server (Dell, HP, IBM, SuperMicro, Home Build, etc.) and ship it to a data center of your choice. The data center in turn places your server in a rack and attaches it to their network. Once the datacenter has your server all setup, you will then be able to remotely access your server.

This option you will also need to own your own operating system license and be very familiar with computer hardware.

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Hi Guys,

There have been allot of questions floating around since we opened the TCAdmin section of our forums. To explain, TCAdmin is a web control panel designed and developed specifically for the game and voice hosting industry.

TCAdmin is a web control panel that has much deeper roots that allow you to completely automate your game and voice server installs while giving your clients a great web panel access to do just about anything they need to for their service.

One of the biggest notes however is that TCAdmin only runs on Windows, so if you plan on hosting game servers on a Linux based server, you will need to look to a different control panel, but for many of us Window’s geeks it is the perfect affordable way to begin ones game hosting business.

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