Well the time has come...me and my brother have decided to create a dedicated Gaming server.

Can any of you server admin's or anybody else give me any info as to what is required for this? any spec's on hardware for UT99 & 2k4? i could make it support UT3 but i dont feel the need to bring that in to the equation at this time, more old classics @ any rate. Any info would be quite helpful and i appreciate the help, i may know servers but really nothing when it come's to administering a "game server" persay, windows or linux doesnt matter to me im familiar with both. Again appreciate any help you guys can provide, also even wether it's worthwhile in this day and age. Honestly i never see myself or my friends including you guys stopping anytime soon so...post away 

I would refer you to Hermski, he also runs his server from his home. Hardest thing with home hosting is getting your server to be seen past your router (so I have heard).

My only contribution to the choice between windows and linux is that linux only supports 127 characters in players names, so on a linux server, sometimes the players letters in their name appear as squares. There may even be a linux edition of the game if you choose linux (not sure, but it is a question to ask).

regardless of OS, you can run version 451 as a server.

I could help with other stuff once you get the game up and running.

Alright awesome, server 2k8 r2 should suffice nicely then, might run a native linux gaming server later on for some different games, probably centos or debian, any idea's on resource load's? bandwith & hardware shouldnt really be any issue, it's a commercial account to a residential building and all
enterprise cisco switching & routing throughout, full Gigabit and more, also getting stuff seen past the router isnt really an issue, i just need to know what ports have to be opened and how much resource load UT takes in general running as a server. For what it's worth ive got Poweredge 1950's to spare for the purposes with Dual socket Xeon dual cores or quad cores. each supporting 8-32GB's of ram, running on Fiberchannel & SAS drives. and where exactly do packages fit in? can they truly be customized in such ways as to make the server unique? Yes i definitly think i will be hitting you up on that offer Helen. You've obviously got a great track record in my opinion. Always appreciated ch33rz ! 

opened the following ports on router...

TCP PORTS: 7777, 8080, 8777, 9777, 27900
UDP PORTS: 7777, 7778, 7779, 27900

Or set DMZ on the server

A server ready optimised ServerFullMulti2013
http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/utfiles/index.php?dir=Entire_Server_Download/&file=ServerFullMulti2013.zip
http://medor.no-ip.org/index.php?dir=Entire_Server_Download/&file=ServerFullMulti2013.zip

If you need anything I got - let me know - BRAVO!

Uh Ritalin?
I just read one of your posts and I think you're having a breakdown. I couldn't understand a thing you wrote. Debian cisco native poweredge xeon boop boop be doop.  Are you physically merging with a game server? Will UT be played through your server or you?  Lol.

For what its worth, UT Servers do not require much at all in the way of equipment.
Hermskii used to run 5 UT servers at once on an old Pentium II box.
I myself have run 2 UT Servers at the same time right on my old Pentium III box with 1 of these on a flash drive - the same box I used at the time for day to day computing and surfing and playing UT.

Bandwidth is good to have high tho - but shouldn't be a problem with today's speeds - especially for 1 server!

If i had the internal components i might try playing the server through me physically yes! Be pretty cool to see little explosions going off in the left bottom corner of my kidney!  Also really? sys spec's are much lower than i expected..but i guess that's true to form, game is pre-2000, so awesome maybe i could just lay out a gaming server for multiple games on one box. cool thx for the info , appreciated ! 

Quote from: 3C34353E233C34353E23510opened the following ports on router...

TCP PORTS: 7777, 8080, 8777, 9777, 27900
UDP PORTS: 7777, 7778, 7779, 27900

Or set DMZ on the server

A server ready optimised ServerFullMulti2013
http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/utfiles/index.php?dir=Entire_Server_Download/&file=ServerFullMulti2013.zip
http://medor.no-ip.org/index.php?dir=Entire_Server_Download/&file=ServerFullMulti2013.zip

Hi Medor, am i correct to assume this is a pre-modified version of UT server? if so what are the added in packages im seeing in UnrealTournament\System\ ? i'm referring to ZeroPing, UT-PostalBabes and so on. I'm certainly not against pre-modified versions of anything, just curious as to what they are. any info you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thx! also Viva-La-France!  P.S
you host some great files

Here, I think, is the core list of packages for the 436 version:

ServerPackages=SoldierSkins
ServerPackages=CommandoSkins
ServerPackages=FCommandoSkins
ServerPackages=SGirlSkins
ServerPackages=BossSkins
ServerPackages=Botpack
ServerPackages=De
ServerPackages=MultiMesh
ServerPackages=Relics
ServerPackages=EpicCustomModels
ServerPackages=TCowMeshSkins
ServerPackages=TNaliMeshSkins
ServerPackages=TSkMSkins
ServerPackages=SkeletalChars

Keep those.

Any others are custom, and optional. They are up to you if you want them on your server. (BTW, you could almost think of "package" and "mutator" as interchangeable). If you list the extra ones we can try to figure out what they are.

ZeroPing - mutator that... well I think everyone knows this one.
UT-PostalBabes - When the game is over, it shows some female bots (Abbey model I think) dancing around the winner (I think).

If you don't want to run a mutator, you do two things. One is remove it from the packages list. You don't have to remove the line, you can just comment it out, like this:

;ServerPackages=UT-PostalBabes

Just put a semi-colon in front of the line. That prevents the package from being sent to your clients. The second thing is to look for the line that starts the mutator and comment it out. Starting a mutator is done in various ways. Try looking for the mutator name somewhere else in the file, and comment it out.

ServerPackages=De
This cause mismatch so do not use it's not set
It's for disabled BehindView but you can do it with pure.

If you don't want to run a mutator, you do two things. One is remove it from the packages list. You don't have to remove the line, you can just comment it out, like this:

;ServerPackages=UT-PostalBabes

Not fully true because it is launch with ActorCLP

[ActorCLP.ActorCLP]
Mutators=MapVoteLA13vv.BDBMapVote,UTPostalBabes.MutPostalBabes

Babes is that http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=1794

Alright ran a quick test this morning over LAN, everything seemed to go smooth after third attempt downloading some of those additional packages, will test more this evening but overall not too hard to get the hang of, alot simpler than my mind had made it out to be @ any rate. So thx guys appreciate the help so far ! 

I hope you know what redirect is? If not, you should get that going. I'm sure there's tonnes of links on it, but here's a starting point.

http://wiki.unrealadmin.org/Redirection_and_Compression

It's set on it at http://uz.ut-files.com/

if you encounter a problem or want to change hesitate not to ask

do not forget to open ports or make the pc dmz

-you must use this server just as server
-for play on you need to set a player UT and search "find lan games"

Temporarily this project is on hold  My Brother dropped our router...g0tta love cement basement floors. Our layer 3 switch is doing basic routing duties @ the moment, so until we pick up another router i'll simply learn more about the process via reading and not doing