DayZ Game Server Hosting

DayZ Server Rental

Rent a DayZ Server with PingPerfect

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"How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story."

DayZ is a realistic, hard hitting zombie survival game, which effectively spawned that entire genre of games. Your goal is to survive a post-apocalyptic world (lands of Chernarus, Livonia and Sakhal (Frostline)) that is infected. You and your fellow players will need to be able to explore, loot and most importantly, fight, in order to survive the post-apocalyptic lands of DayZ.

Is that a friend or foe? Take advantage of others, or become their friends, whatever choice you make, it will heavily influence the outcome of your survival (and theirs!) You could kill them on sight... Join forces and build a bigger base... whatever you do, pray they don't betray you for a can of beans.

Infected. Bears. Wolves. Chickens? Every creature in DayZ is a potential hazard, it's not just other players you need to worry about. Everyone who plays this game falls victim to the wildlife at least once... as if that isn't enough to worry about, you've also got to contend with the weather (body temperature), hunger, thirst and more. So you and your friends best learn how to hunt, fish and forage real quick. Will those berries kill you, or keep you alive for another day...

Loot, loot, and loot some more. DayZ is all about looting. It's how you'll find the essentials to survive, the weapons you need to raid your double-crossing friends base, and maybe a can of beans will come your way to prevent starvation. You'll find cars you need to repair, which will vastly improve your movement once fixed. Just don't get caught driving when a DayZ game server reboots... if you know, you know. If you want the best loot, you'll need to brave the underground bunkers in the south - you have been warned though, they are not for the faint hearted, only the most hardcore DayZ players will survive.

Dayz is designed to be modded. This means there's a never ending addition of content that just makes the gameplay better and better. More vehicles, more animals, more NPCs, more weapons, more of literally everything you can think of, can be provided by mods for your DayZ game server.

Hosting a DayZ Game server with Pingperfect provides you the ability to enjoy DayZ at it's best. We take the hard work that typically comes with managing a game server away. You can mod your DayZ server with ease. Gameplay will be smooth due to our powerful hardware. Low ping / latency because of our networking. We back it up regularly in-case you experience any undesirable experiences or data loss.

You get the jist, we do what we can, to make DayZ server hosting as enjoyable as possible.

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)