Warbawz Server hosting: hosting for NS2
Warbawz
Join Date: 2012-11-20 Member: 172641Members
Join Date: 2012-11-20 Member: 172641Members
Greetings Natural Selection lovers!
Warbawz Server Hosting is now opening up server rental options for NS2! At Warbawz we offer affordable prices, reliable service, along with full control panel access, full ftp access, and 24/7 customer support through Steam Chat, Teamspeak 3, and a support ticket system.
Your servers will be running on:
Intel Xeon E3-1230 - 3.2GHz
16GB Ram
500GB HDD
5000GB bandwidth
NS2 server prices (per slot):
Monthly: $1.40
Quarterly:$1.33
Semi-annually: $1.19
Annually: $1.12
Locations:
Dallas, TX
New York, NY
If you are interested in first testing our servers and seeing how they run you can find our server ingame called "Warbawz Hosting"
If you are interested in trying us out or finding out more about us check us out at or contact us on our website at <a href="http://www.warbawz.com" target="_blank">www.warbawz.com</a> or come to our teamspeak at 208.115.245.98:9997
Thanks for your time and happy hunting on the battlefields of NS2!
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Warbawz Server Hosting is now opening up server rental options for NS2! At Warbawz we offer affordable prices, reliable service, along with full control panel access, full ftp access, and 24/7 customer support through Steam Chat, Teamspeak 3, and a support ticket system.
Your servers will be running on:
Intel Xeon E3-1230 - 3.2GHz
16GB Ram
500GB HDD
5000GB bandwidth
NS2 server prices (per slot):
Monthly: $1.40
Quarterly:$1.33
Semi-annually: $1.19
Annually: $1.12
Locations:
Dallas, TX
New York, NY
If you are interested in first testing our servers and seeing how they run you can find our server ingame called "Warbawz Hosting"
If you are interested in trying us out or finding out more about us check us out at or contact us on our website at <a href="http://www.warbawz.com" target="_blank">www.warbawz.com</a> or come to our teamspeak at 208.115.245.98:9997
Thanks for your time and happy hunting on the battlefields of NS2!
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Comments
I am glad to see another host providing servers to the community. Your prices are great, unbelievably so.
Just so you know, you don't have a contact form on your web site and the live chat does not work. It would not display all the fields visibly and I could not post a message. Tried in both Chrome and Firefox. I tried contacting you directly but could not on your website.
What is the server chipset that you are using(Nehalem,Sandy)?
What is the maximum slots you sell?
What is your guaranteed tick rate?
Where are your terms of service, refund policy?
ps: There is also an obscene name on your home page making the first post "kingOfsin"? Some people may find that offensive, seems a little unprofessional.
Sorry about that, our website is currently under construction and a few things are being configured and added in such as the live chat. If you or anyone else would like to contact one of us at a quick rate you can add Killkan on steam here: <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011197307/" target="_blank">http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011197307/</a>
Or you can join our teamspeak here: 208.115.245.98:9997
As for your questions, we have a Sandy chipset.
We sell a maximum of 24 slots which you can see when you go to our site, click on order, then click on our NS2 option.
We will give our clients what ever tick rate they ask for!
Thank you for noticing, we usually give our terms of service and refund policy to our clients as they purchase, but now it is on our site so you can now check it out there!
ps: Thank you for pointing that out as well, I am sorry if that offends you however everyone many who work at Warbawz (especially our techies) are gamers and use their screen names. However, it has been changed and thank you for the critique :)
First of all I want to say that Killkan(bossroberts) was courteous and respectful on teamspeak as well as honest. Unfortunately he did not know much about NS2 or about hosting the game itself.
I did some researching about ns2 servers and was surprised to see that they didn't know what the maximum tick rate was. They also had no test servers up and it looks like the first server they set up was so that I could see the ns2 web admin interface(Back to that in a moment), he also didn't seem to know the NS2 web admin was not the same as his TCAdmin, we where able to resolve this quickly. They have no clients for ns2 (per bossroberts admission, thank you for being honest) to be able to test a high slot server, they offer for sale up to 24 slots.
With the little reading I did on this forum i learned that a xeon sandy bridge processor have no chance of maintaining a normal tick rate of 30 with anything over 16 slots(specially with no overclocking). Yet they don't seem to know this. It seems the ivy bridge processors are the only ones capable of maintaining this tick rate, again this is from what I have read in the forums.
It was surprising to see the prices they offered but I am starting to see that they really don't know how cpu intensive one of these servers are. They run WHMCS/TCAdmin for their order checkout/control panel, this is what I was told by the owner. Not sure if I trust WHMCS after major security breaches this year.
I received a message a couple of hours later after our conversation on their teamspeak. Bossrobets sent me a link to the web based ns2 admin interface. The only problem is that I can not log in as he did not provide credentials or the name of the server so i could get on it. I jumped back on their teamspeak but no one was there, still there now while writing this message(connected several times over an 2 hours, still no way to send them a message through the website), I thought someone was manning this 24/7?
So to recap, this guy is very inexperienced and young. While Killkan(bossroberts) is very courteous and respectful, his lack of knowledge was apparent, he constantly had to go to check for answers to my questions. The main thing that concerns me is they hadn't put one server up before I had contacted them. I think they will need some time to learn about this game and provisioning it before they can offer it as a product successfully. I hope them the best and will update this post if I have further experiences with them.
PS: It looks like you rushed to put up a terms and conditions on the site. There are many grammatical and run on sentences. Some are just very awkward " If you no longer want your server and do not about a refund, just cancel your subscription ". Also you mention legal action a lot in the first paragraph, makes it feel hostile. I am a law student and can tell you that you left out a lot of very important details and information. There are plenty of boiler plate legal document services that can provide you with a cheaper alternative then talking with a lawyer. Disclaimer I am only a student not a lawyer, this does not constitute legal advise.
I definately reccomend them for their great prices and desire to please their customers.
@Hoofhearted021: Thank you for the recommendation!
Just a quick update. I received information back from bossroberts, and got a chance to play on their server. I tried several maps and can conclude that he just doesn't have the horse power to run NS2 with his guaranteed 30 tick rate. Below are some screen shots of the web admin for reference on different maps.
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and
<img src="http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/k13t5.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
I would like to thank you for your help and time but it seems like your setup is lacking. Thanks again for your effort but at this time I will have to keep looking.
@exacta: Thanks for catching my punctuation mistake. Though I am not the one placing a legal document on a website.
I would really like to see you do this for other server providers too. Seeing as your only post was on our thread alone, very curious indeed.
Have a good one bud.
Most all other providers made their information available early on and where able to provide me with posts to look at. I hope i didn't offend you in any way and truly wish you the best. You just may not be able to claim what you did when I spoke to you on teamspeak. Nothing personal just reporting an experience. If you where looking around for a host, would you not find this information valuable/important?
I am talking to others as we speak now. Are there any in specific providers you would like me to post on?
I really appreciate your investigative work and the more criticism the better. We are like scientists at warbawz, criticism and being shown a better way to do things helps us grow. You are doing us a service.
In terms of doing the same sort of review with screenshots and pictures etc, I would like to see you do so on other server providers that post in this forum for example. Since all of your posts are only currently in our thread. You should check out Bluefangsolutions next seeing that they seem to be closest on the list on these forums. Also did you get a chance to see our tickrate when there were only max 16 players?
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