Game Server

**Sarahlee** · Jul 2nd, 2009, 9:28 am

So we are thinking about offering games on our server but we are unsure of how to manage them and get started. Anyone know of any good articles and/or tutorials about this to help us get on the right track?

Don't want to offer something that we aren't sure how to maintain first, you know. Any help would be grateful

**tsdesigns** · Jul 2nd, 2009, 9:37 am

Like what kind of games? Do you mean setting up a server for people to play games online (e.g. counterstrike, team fortress, left 4 dead, etc) or just putting games up on your server (e.g. flash games, online "browser" games like that)?

**Sarahlee** · Jul 2nd, 2009, 10:08 am

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

Like what kind of games? Do you mean setting up a server for people to play games online (e.g. counterstrike, team fortress, left 4 dead, etc) or just putting games up on your server (e.g. flash games, online "browser" games like that)?

Setting up the server for people to play games like Counterstrike and all those. Not flash games or browser games

Sorry for not being clear.

**tsdesigns** · Jul 2nd, 2009, 11:35 am

As far as I know it's different for each game (i.e you need to install different things on the server for each game), so you might want to limit your server to only a few games at first.

Heres a great looking article I found about setting one up for CS (i've never done it, but it seems to have a lot of info there and I'd trust it's correct):
Counter-Strike - Creating a Counter-Strike Server