[Jake187]

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Originally Posted by Sting. Ok but lets say, If I buy a VPS, you can set up your own custom DNS and all that but is it the same? Like you upload all the files onto it and then you run it and it runs 24/7? How about the slots? Like do you configure it to 50 slots on the server.cfg or something? By increasing players you have to manually advertise using social sites and videos but not through hosted tabs? Please explain how it works with VPS.....

I think you're asking at the wrong forums I'd go to webhostingtalk the best place to get answers about how a VPS works.

Anyways what do you need a custom DNS for? because that doesn't relate to SA-MP servers at all unless you want like a name.example.com which forwards the IP towards your server.

A VPS is a virtual private server meaning it is not a REAL full box server it's a server in a server so virtual. It's pretty much like a dedicated server but as stated it's in a already existing server so normally you are limited on resources and the network port is shared with others meaning you could end up being on a server with a 1Gbits port but it's being choked to where you're lucky to get 10mbps so that's the crappy news about it, the good news is it's cheaper because it's not a actual boxed server and since the resources are shared among others its cheaper for the provider to offer it instead of a full boxed server which takes up more space in their racks and a network port and more.

A VPS normally is ran 24/7 long as it's located in a datacenter, normally a company will provide their uptime guarantee such as 99.9% etc which means it's pretty much on 99.9% of the time so 24/7 pretty much.

So this means that the server wont go offline unless like their whole grid goes offline along with their network and nomally a datacenter has extra power and networks to avoid that issue or if a firewall problem happens etc.

A VPS can host a SA-MP server and plenty of them but all depends on how well your resources can handle it, you can get it on the internet list simply by editing the server.cfg and adding announce 1 and you can edit the slots to whatever you prefer them to be. There is many advances but the disadvantage of using a VPS or dedicated server is lack of knowledge if you don't know what you're doing you can easily leave your server attack able or breach able which could result in a loss of data or server used for illegal activity which could end up being put against you.