The order have been discussing things. We believe we should get ourselves a vps now for multiple clan and personal servera for harvest members.
Where you guys recommend we rent from.
(by we, i mean ill just buy it for us)
I recommend waiting for Badspot to fix the runtime error issue before investing money to dedicate your server. If you're gonna be getting on it to reset the server every few days, there isn't really a reason to dedicate it in the first place. Of course, if you still want to go with it,
There are plenty of services both specialized and general that you can host Blockland on. If you want an easy to set up and solid service, go with Pecon's BlockNet hosting service. If you want more control over your server, you can spend a little extra and rent a VPS server. There are many VPS server providers, and their individual deals and limitations are all very confusing, but here are a few that Blocklanders have found to work well.
if you're going to use nfo/another vps service here's the specs you should get:
for cpu cores, you only need one, but two will do and it'll guarantee better performance for anything else you might want to host.
for ram, you could actually get away with only getting 512mb of it, but only if you're hosting exactly one blockland and nothing else. i suggest atleast 2gb of ram, as that is pleanty for bl hosting and should be enough for anything else you might want to host. but be VERY careful with your selection of add-ons. ive found that oRBs and RTB use up /absolute tons/ of ram. with battlemix, it would get up to using 1.5gb of ram with oRBs/RTB in less than 12 hours. without both of them, battlemix has been using under 512mb of ram (with like 20 players on the server as well) which is surprising because battlemix spawns literally thousands of projectiles every second.
for storage, you really only need 5 gigabytes max. blockland is not a very large game in terms of disk space used. nfo gives tons of space in storage, and most other vps services do too, so don't even worry about disk space at all
for bandwidth, according to my nfo control panel i don't use more than 125gb of data (my most amount used was 111gb, current usage for the month of december is only 31gb), and that includes requests from my website too. you're not going to need a terabyte of bandwidth if you're just going to be hosting blockland. a terabyte of bandwidth really is completely overkill for anything related to games really. nfo gives you thousands of gigabytes of bandwidth, so i wouldn't worry about it at all
Just make sure you find a good autosaver so you don't lose any build progress when it inevitably crashes.
