How do I make my own ss13 server with a forum?

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Alright, first of all, you need to decide if you are willing to invest the time and effort it would take to host a server, server hosting requires a lot of work and complicated shit, you need to have:

- A basic understanding of networking, routing, and iptables/ufw
- A basic understanding of byond coding.
- Mysql experience
- Unix experience
- Atleast 3 months in a Headmin/Server Leadership position
- And a actual plan for the server

Alright, have all of that, good luck getting players with all the ss13 servers out there, you need to provide new content that is not just random codebases blended together and slapped with a nice coat of paint, look at ftl, hell, look at fallout 13, if you just bring a basic tg experience. you will never get any players other then the players who get banned from tg, because why would those players not just play on tg?

You have all of that, ok then down to the nitty gritty, you need to decide between dedicated server hosting, a vps, and home hosting, home hosting requires more effort then a dedicated but pays off in the long run, however it requires fast internet, You are gonna want atleast 30Megabytes up and 30Megabytes down. if you have less then that and can't afford the upgrade, a vps is your best bet, but if you have that and you want to host from home, you are gonna need a good box. byond is a single core based application so really you can get by with a good i7, however if you plan on hosting all needed services for a good ss13 server from home you should look into a xeon. By needed services i mean A LAMP(Linux, Apache, Mysql, and PHP) Stack, a dream daemon server, a basic irc bot for forwarding admin commands, a markov chain bot(Yes this is 100 percent required without this your server will die), and basic telemetry and server control software.

Now, you can either buy a server or build one, if you have computing experience i suggest building one, a good working server will cost you about 900-3000 dollars if you build it and 4700-5000 plus change if you buy one, if you go the building route i suggest a Xeon E3-1280 v6(You can find one of these for ~500 dollars if you look around) a ASRock C236 motherboard, Kingston 32GB (4 x 8GB) ram, WD Blue 2TB Desktop hard drive, EVGA GeForce GT 730 1GB graphics card(Not gonna be doing anything requiring graphics calculations, a case and cpu cooler of your choice, and debian linux server for the os, alright, Get a ups and a lan cable, connect up the computer, make sure everything works and if you have all that up and running time for software setup.

Get yourself a 1 G usb stick,dd this image onto it http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.7....etinst.iso , boot from it, go through the regular setup but when you reach the package selection screen select standard system utilities and SSH, then finish setup, reboot the computer and make sure everything is in order, ssh into the system from your main computer and install all the basic software you need, for example editors(apt-get -y install vim-nox nano), LAMP(apt-get -y install mysql-server mysql-client apache2 apache2-doc php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5) and byond(wget http://www.byond.com/download/build/511/..._linux.zip -o byond.zip && unzip byond.zip && cd byond && # make install), if you have all of these the next things you should do is setup port forwarding on your router https://portforward.com/router.htm if you need help with that , setup ufw/iptables/another firewall https://www.howtogeek.com/177621/the-beg...-firewall/, install mybb https://docs.mybb.com/1.8/install/, setup basic server scripts for such things as reboots and code updates, setup an automatic compilation and testmerge system, and other stuff such as that, if you got this far, i wish you the best of luck.

i am sorry for my run on sentences and other grammatical SNAFUs.

EDIT:Considering some of your posts on this forum i assume you are probably under 18 and you seem like a shitler, i would recommend maturing a bit before you start hosting a ss13 server as it requires a certain kind of person.

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god bless your soul