ARK Survival Evolved Game Server Hosting

ARK Survival Evolved Game Server Hosting ARK Survival is one of the best adventure games around. If you are the type that plays it regularly, you might understand how hosting its server is like. However, if you don't, this article has come to your rescue. Here, we highlight the important things you need to know about ARK Survival Evolved Game Server Hosting. As the most popular OS, we look at Microsoft OS. Hosting by yourself or buying a server hosting?

Making a dedicated ARK server is more demanding than buying an ark server hosting. However, it is also a lot cheaper. Using existing hardware, you will only be paying for the internet and electricity. On the other hand, you can consider renting a VPS for a fraction of what you will pay for ARK server rental.

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Nevertheless, you should go through the downsides before even doing anything because everything regarding the server such as maintenance, fixing and regular backups will be up to you. Although we will be talking about the basic process of hosting by yourself later, you need to consider these things first. If you want to host on your home connection, then you need to note that you will likely not be able to have beyond 100 players concurrently.

The requirements If you are interested in setting up an ARK server locally, then there are certain things you need to be aware of. For starters, you need to ensure that you possess a 64-bit OS. If you do not have it, it will be hard, if not impossible for you to run a server. In fact, you could end up wasting a lot of time troubleshooting. Although, it seems the vast majority of gamers tend to have a 64-but OS. Nevertheless, you shouldn't hesitate to check.

Another thing you will have to consider is RAM. You will need nothing less than 6GB of RAM for starting the server only. While it runs, you will be needing another 4GB per 100 players. As a result of this, it is possible you experience poor performance for the players or frame rate drops if you are playing on the same computer as the server. Therefore, whenever you want to rent a dedicated server or a VPS, try as much as possible to get one that does not only have enough RAM but also has a 64-bit installed OS. On the other end, if you are trying to host at home, you are going to have a bigger headache with connection speed. Therefore, it is recommended that you upload speed of nothing less than 10 to 20 Mbit if you intend to have many users.

The basics After meeting up with the requirements and made the important decisions, what is next is hosting and getting started with that your ARK server. This is especially so if you are only hosting on LAN locally; that is, you are hosting on the same personal computer you are playing on. To do that, the basic steps are highlighted briefly below. Here we will be using Windows OS. 

Step 1: Open steam and right-click: Survival Evolved. After that, you click Properties.

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Step 2: After hitting Properties, proceed to click Local Files and afterward, click Browse Local Files.

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Step 3: Navigate to Shooter Game and click Binaries. After that, click Win64.

Your target here is a file known as ShooterGameServer.exe. However, you need to do beyond just clicking it. The file needs to know the game to a load and also the information and preferences of your server. Therefore, you will probably have to create a batch file (plain text file consisting of a chain of commands that will

be executed by the interpreter of the command line. Here, the command will be getting the server started with a series of options. Just right-click anyplace in Windows Explorer inside the folder where you have the ShooterGameServer.exe.

Click on new and click on Text Document. A file with the name New Text Document.txt. will appear. Just double-click it to open a new notepad window.

Once that is done, paste this; start ShooterGameServer.exe "MapName?

SessionName=MySuperAwesomeArkServer?ServerPassword=thisisoptional?

ServerAdminPassword=megasecretadminpass?Port=27015?QueryPort=27016? listen" exit.

After doing that, click File and then click Save As. What you should see next is your Win64 directory. Just change Save as type into All Files. Write startserver.bat and then right-click Save in the File name field. Once you have done that, double-click the new file and exercise a little patience for it to get started.