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Originally Posted by [HLF]Southclaw I think this would be good, it would definitely stop a lot of homehost servers that only run in the day time and turn off at night! But I think there should be more restrictions for running a server really, I don't know how, if you have to apply with information of your server then you need people to read them and judge which servers are good/bad, which is a bit hard to do over the internet where no one really knows anyone if you know what I mean. I don't think that is really the answer, because you might have a brilliant unique server script that has full potential, but never even used the SA:MP forums, that means you can't run your server. Another answer is having a special type of server that can only be run from trusted hosts like ServerFFS or KingJ etc that appears in the internet list. And if a server is hosted form a home computer without this authentication, it doesn't appear in the list, and can only be accessed by IP [for private servers etc] Don't know how that would work though, and if the method of getting the server in the list is leaked then it would be a waste of time.

The only allow trusted hosters would be the worst thing ever! You know there is like over 10k good vps providers in the whole world. It would be impossible to get the ip of all good hosters. Like I got one of the best vps providers in Sweden called Glesys but noone on this sa-mp forum knows that there is an hosting provider called Glesys. To then not allow my server on the Internet list just because of that would be just dumb.


Anyway back to making it harder to add servers to the hosted list. I think forcing everyone to do an simple registration will fix the problem like you need to enter Name,Country,Email,Password and then you need to wait 2 days for the account to be activated. Then you could make an limit that your server needs to be online at least 22/7 in average else it will get removed from the Internet list.


Edit: You could also make so you need like 5 in repetition to register your Internet list account. And every time you change ip on the account you need to wait 2 days for it to reactivate. On that two days the server needs to be online all the time to verify that it's not just an home hosted shit server.