{Help} How To Host Server?

No Not That i mean  Know How To Create Server and i did But i want to Know How To Host it To Make it Online 24 Hour
like: wol_starblock/The Best DDRace Server ...........

pff... Dynamic ip changes each day so you would have to restart server then. The easiest way is to buy cheap vps, it starts at ~5 dolars/month...

No. But a home-server would almost never get the same quality then a dedicated server. Means a dedi-root server often got 100mbits or more 24/7 ... a home server dunno 8/0.5 mbits ... maybe 1 or 2 mbits upload? And maybe more important it goes often on and off with your PC and is shared (so if somebody is surfing at home could cause easy lags for gamers).

A VPS could be good or bad. I had some mixed experience in the past with some VPS based on OpenVZ. If it run it was good... and I did not see a difference to a dedi which I use now (TW does not consumes that much CPU so almost every lowest dedi should be enough) -  if my VPS had troubles... and there was lots of... then connection get stuck up to half an hour (which get very annoying after a while). So it depends if your hoster is overbooking that stuff or not. You can't know this for sure before you get it (so ask some if they already use that hoster). Afterwards I changed to another and had some KVM based at my own country with incredible low latency - but even (incredibly) lag for unknown reason. Packet loss at TCP looked very good - so I guess it was UDP or as assumend by my last hoster the connection from my IPS to them (even latency itself was very low). So my last hoster recommended me more or less directly to switch to hetzner.de (even it's not hosted in my country) ... and he (sadly) was right.

If you are going to host a server based on linux (which I clearly prefer)  I would recommend install linux on your main-computer (e.g. as second OS) and use it as your main-OS (means, surfin, playing, ...) for some while (so you have a real reason to get into it). And/or connect to some IRC channel where guys hang around which might support you (tw or ddrace on quakenet). You should get some experience regarding SSH and firewalls (even tools like arno-iptables-firewall could do lots of stuff for you already without much knowledge). Otherwise you would risk to lock out yourself or on the other side somebody is "fucking" your server and (coz it's linux and not just good for destroying but useful afterwards) hosting his illegal stuff on your server without your knowledge. And that could happen sooner as expected. I know from guys (where we had to clean up afterwards ... which most likely means collecting as much as possible and leave them reinstalling from scratch coz you can't trust this system anymore) that already take place within just a few days (they ignored our security warnings). And I was on way more then one server that get fucked already. It's easy to get good protection if you know how - but you have to do it (soon).

If you host a server at home (most likely windows PC) then your main problems would be port-forwarding the TW port on your router to your PC (which are easy to solve normally) and shared connection (LAG). Most time there is already some basic-protection brought with NAT that moves your home-network into private range.

Greetings,
Mo(2)