7 Days to Die Game Server Hosting

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7 Days to Die is the definitive zombie survival game. After 12 years and over 18 million copies sold, it’s been announced that 7 Days will leave early access and experience a ‘full release’. So, there’s no better time to start playing on your dedicated server!

Set in a harsh post-apocalyptic world populated by the undead, 7 Days combines the open-world survival genre with aspects of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense and role-playing for an unparalleled game-playing experience. With first-class crafting mechanisms and exceptional world-building, this is a survival game that shouldn’t be missed.

In the future, World War Three has decimated the planet and most of the population has been infected with an unknown virus. The aim is simply to survive in a world where every 7 days a horde of blood-thirsty zombies rise relentlessly from the dead…

Explore a Fully Dynamic Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland You can opt to play the campaign world or explore a randomly generated world, giving you the control to play the game the way you want. With over 550 unique locations, 5 unique biomes and 100 square kilometres of mountains, cities, lakes, roads and radiation zones to explore, there’s no chance you’ll get bored anytime soon!

Everything is fully buildable and fully destroyable - it all depends on how you want your 7 Days experience to go. The ‘Dynamic Story Generation System’ guides players towards better loot, undiscovered Points of Interest and other survivors to keep the gameplay engaging.

Loot, Scavenge and Craft Your Way to Survival To become a true survivalist (and survive the zombie horde), looting and crafting are essential skills. You can craft and repair clothes, tools, armour, and weapons using over 500 recipes. Every item in the game is assigned a quality level and degrades with use, so constant scavenging is vital to make the most of the game's 5x5 grid ‘Crafting System’.

Fortify Your Survival Base to Keep The Zombies Out Using the ‘Creative Mode Tools’, you can build your own world to play with friends - you’ll just need one of our dedicated servers. With hundreds of prefabs, block shapes and random generation tools, the 7 Days’ world is what you make it!

Whether you build your base from scratch or fortify an existing building, you can include auto turrets, electric power, traps and automated doors to protect yourself from the blood-thirsty hordes. Just be careful you’re building safely - the game’s physics system simulates real-life structural integrity, durability, and mass. One wrong brick placement and your whole structure will come tumbling down leaving you face to face with the horde.

Level Up Your Skills and Fight The Undead Earn XP and level up your skills under 5 main attributes - Perception, Strength, Fortitude, Agility, and Intellect. Gain even more skills by reading over 100 books and become the ultimate undead fighting specialist!

With almost 60 unique zombie types with distinct behaviours and progressive attacks, enemies are an ever-changing threat. The undead can see, smell and hear you and they’ll work together to figure out the best way to get to you. Use the ‘Stealth System’ to sneak past your enemies or throw objects to distract them - you’ll need to do whatever it takes to survive the perilous nights. Benefits of Choosing Our 7 Days to Die Server

Choosing a PingPerfect dedicated 7 Days server is the best solution if you want the ultimate survival game-playing experience. Our simple configuration options and instant set-up mean you can start battling the zombie hoard almost immediately. You can fully customise your 7 Days server, including adding a password and changing the difficulty. With DDoS protection, you can rest assured that your server is as secure as possible.

We offer a 24/7 support service, so you can always speak to us if you’re experiencing a technical issue with your server. We’ll try our best to get it resolved immediately so you can continue playing. Plus, our Mod Manager makes it simple to use all of your favourite 7 Days mods.

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7 Days to Die Version 1.0 Hosting After the release of over 20 Alphas, 7 Days to Die 1.0 is finally here!

The 1.0 version brings new content, features and gameplay systems to completely update the 7 Days gaming experience. Here are are three of our favourite additions:

New HD character system - 1.0 introduces a brand-new, fully customisable character system to create a more engaging and personalised gaming experience. The new character head tracking system even allows you to see what your co-op friend is looking at.

Updated animal and vehicle models - all the animals have now been updated to match the modern look of the redesigned HD zombies. Plus, vehicles are more functional with additional seating, so you can take a friend along for the ride!

Brand-new challenge system - the old tutorial quest and journal system has been replaced with an easy-to-follow introduction questline to help new players learn all they need to know to survive the zombie apocalypse.

The developers are determined that the full release is not the end though, they will continue to develop the game, through their planned roadmap, free updates and more.

What is a game server?

A game server is a specialised computer system that's sole purpose is to process the code required to make multiplayer games function; process player position data, perform physics calculations, hit registration, synchronisation and more... They are essential in providing smooth gameplay that is expected by the modern gamer. Without them, multiplayer gaming wouldn't be as fun, and definitely wouldn't have grown to the scale it has.

To elaborate, a game server determines the game state, then sends that to all players, it calculates the game state every tick, and tick rate is therefore the measure of how often the game state is calculated. Game state is a snapshot of everything occurring in the game world, positional data, physics calculations, environment data, scores, etc... Tick rate is a measure of game state updates. Tick rate is the number of times the game state is calculated and then broadcast to each connected player, every second. The higher the tick rate, the more accurate the game is. Why does tick rate matter? Well, you always want the game you're playing to be accurate, best example is a gun fight, a low tick rate can cause shots that should hit your target, to miss. This leads into why server hardware is so important; server tick rate is directly supported by the underlying hardware, powerful hardware leads to a high tick rate and vice versa. This is because the more often the game state needs updating (a tick), the more CPU power is required to do so, updating the game state 128 times in a second is a damn sight harder than 32 times in a second...

Game servers use the client/server model - simply explained, the server processes almost all the necessary data, then sends it to any connected clients (players). The alternative is the peer-to-peer hosting model, this is where one client (peer) is the host (usually the first to start the game, or the client with the strongest network connection), all other clients send their data to the host, the host then does the processing and sends data back. The client/server model is superior to the peer-to-peer model for many reasons...

The biggest advantage of client/server model game server hosting is accessibility; if the server is online (which it will be, 24/7/365), then any client can connect and enjoy the game. With peer-to-peer hosting, you need the host to leave their personal computer online 24/7/365, that is not very often not feasible. You can get around this by sending the relevant save data at the end of a play session to the next person that will play, but that's time consuming, tedious, and difficult in comparison to having a game server just host the data all the time.
The other big advantage of client/server model game server hosting is superior performance; due to the way peer-to-peer hosting works (data going back and forth between all clients) when a client with poor hardware and/or network connection connects, everyone is held back by them, this doesn't occur with client/server hosting as the server processes' data for each client asynchronously (when data is received, its processed and sent back, theres no waiting for another client).
Game servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and Dedicated Servers all use the client/server model for the aforementioned reasons

Game servers are typically run on shared hardware (this provides cost effectiveness compared to a VPS or Dedicated Server) which means that multiple customers game servers are powered by the same underlying hardware. The CPU, RAM and Storage is split between all the customers. Obviously it's in the best interests of the hosting provider to manage the amount of customers game servers on the underlying hardware to ensure optimal performance. This is very difficult as each game server uses resources differently.

In terms of the actual hardware used for game server hosting, it's not dissimilar to that of a gaming PC. This is because at it's core, every game is a big loop of events (process player position data, perform physics calculations, hit registration, synchronisation and more) that must be performed one after another, cannot be performed at the same time. That therefore favors fast single core performance (high clock cycle speeds). Game servers are no different, they not coincidentally are also a big loop of events, and therefore also benefit from fast single core performance. So using traditional server CPUs that have a large amount of cores, but each core is relatively slow, does not provide the best performance. You will get much better performance from a game server when using gaming PC hardware that has a lesser amount of cores, but each core is relatively fast - high clock speed and high instructions per clock cycle (IPC)