hosting from a server...

Maxpower57 · Post by **Maxpower57** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:04 am

cansomeone walk me through, or point me in the direction of a good tutorial, on how to host internet games from a web server?

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:07 am

You need pretty much root access to the machine. I can help you, but you'll need the whole machine, pretty much. A hosted machine is fine, so long as you have root/administrator access to it and can run any arbitrary programs you need. Geocities is not fine, it's only web space.

So, tell me what you've got.

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:38 pm

Lucifer wrote:You need pretty much root access to the machine.

well, you need a way to run programs (over SSH for example) and the possibility
(and permission) to open networking ports.
My webspace has SSH, which allowed me to run a chat room that uses UNIX sockets,
but I have no permission to oen nework ports. (although i could in theory, I think)