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Vic Firth

Hosting Halo PC with 32 Player Slots

I have always thought that the max number of slots for Halo PC was 16, but I just found this company that is selling Halo Combat Evolved server rentals with up to 32 player slots.

https://www.vilayer.com/gaming-layer/gameinfo/halo-combat-evolved.php

Has anyone heard of this company, is this legit, and is it possible to really host a Halo PC Game with up to 32 players?

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Tiddy-bits:

I don't know about maximum player limit extensions, but I know from looking at their hosting map that they are either spinning up VM instances in Azure or AWS and claiming to be a dedicated host.


System Administrator (Well Rounded) | AWS | Azure | Microsoft 365

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Thank you so much @Solaris You will have to pardon me I am not familiar with Azure or AWS, my background is in music composition. Just taking a basic look like you did does it seem like it might be worth checking out?

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Thank you so much Kavawuvi for taking the time to help me out. I just didn't understand what Solaris meant. I wasn't trying to question him or doubt him, I just was confused and wasn't sure if he was telling me it was a good idea or bad idea, because I come from a different background. It's like listening to someone speak a foreign language. I am here to listen to you guys and take in your wisdom. That's why I thought I would ask here first before doing anything because I know you guys are all really knowledgeable in this area.

Thank you again, and my apologies for offending you and solaris.

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7 hours ago, Vic Firth said:

Thank you so much Kavawuvi for taking the time to help me out. I just didn't understand what Solaris meant. I wasn't trying to question him or doubt him, I just was confused and wasn't sure if he was telling me it was a good idea or bad idea, because I come from a different background. It's like listening to someone speak a foreign language. I am here to listen to you guys and take in your wisdom. That's why I thought I would ask here first before doing anything because I know you guys are all really knowledgeable in this area.

Generally, if you're buying something, you ought to do a little research into what you're buying, even if it's not part of your background. You definitely don't want to get screwed over, here.

 

To explain, AWS and Azure are both cloud computing services provided by Amazon and Microsoft, respectively. If a service is using this, then rather than physically hosting, they are using these services to host it. This is cheaper, as they don't have to purchase the hardware, Internet connection, housing, etc.

 

There is nothing wrong with using AWS or Azure, as doing this is a great way to save money. However, if what @Solaris is saying is true and they are trying to sell VMs as "dedicated" hosts, then there is definitely something shady going on. The fact that they've got a lot of really bad, recent reviews on sites like Trustpilot or that they're trying to sell something that obviously does not exist (32 player Halo servers) doesn't help.

 

7 hours ago, Vic Firth said:

Thank you again, and my apologies for offending you and solaris.

Not to worry. You didn't offend anyone. You simply asked a question, and any good question should deserve a good answer.

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19 hours ago, Vic Firth said:

Thank you so much @Solaris You will have to pardon me I am not familiar with Azure or AWS, my background is in music composition. Just taking a basic look like you did does it seem like it might be worth checking out?

I'm only looking at their hosting map. I highly doubt they have servers hosted in every single one of those locations. That would be ridiculously expensive for them. I'm going off the assumption that they're most likely upcharging EC2 instances and creating a managed service for game hosting. If they at least don't even provide maintenance on those servers then you're being ripped off.

 

But I agree, know the technical limitations of the services you want to run. Sounds like a crock of shit they're trying to sell or they just threw some $GAME global variable onto a page template.

 

24 minutes ago, Kavawuvi said:

To explain, AWS and Azure are both cloud computing services provided by Amazon and Microsoft, respectively. If a service is using this, then rather than physically hosting, they are using these services to host it. This is cheaper, as they don't have to purchase the hardware, Internet connection, housing, etc.

You can still host bare metal in AWS, but it's generally a lot more expensive and really only useful for customers that need to meet some kind of compliance (ie, requirement to not share compute resources with other customers for privacy/security) or licensing. You also have Dedicated Instances, which is like running on a dedicated host on bare metal, except on top of a hypervisor on a single host.


System Administrator (Well Rounded) | AWS | Azure | Microsoft 365

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12 hours ago, Solaris said:

You can still host bare metal in AWS, but it's generally a lot more expensive and really only useful for customers that need to meet some kind of compliance (ie, requirement to not share compute resources with other customers for privacy/security) or licensing. You also have Dedicated Instances, which is like running on a dedicated host on bare metal, except on top of a hypervisor on a single host.

Sure, they could very well be using dedicated hosting, but they've not given any reason to be taken at their word, from what I can tell. There are just way too many big red flags that it's probably best to just stay away from them.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this! That makes a lot more sense now, and I am glad if anyone sees this in the future they will also know what to look out for!

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