{"id":4807,"date":"2008-09-13T03:32:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/13\/whats-necessary-for-ventrilo-server-hosting\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T03:32:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T08:32:51","slug":"whats-necessary-for-ventrilo-server-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=4807","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Necessary for Ventrilo server hosting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Jarrod Ploof<\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re part of the gaming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meyouworld.net\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Community &raquo;\">community<\/a>, you know that this is something very unique. If you want to jump to the next level in your gaming, you&#8217;ll need Ventrilo server <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magic1host.com\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Hosting &raquo;\">hosting<\/a>. To consider Ventrilo server hosting, as a community, you&#8217;ll need to decide what you&#8217;re looking for in a hosting company.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of aspects to consider when it comes to Ventrilo server hosting so it is important to field what are the most important aspects to your particular gaming community. Ventrilo server hosting is done for groups that have less than 1000 slots needed for the pro version but need access to more than the eight slots that are provided by the freeware version. <\/p>\n<p>Ventrilo server hosting basically rents slots so if you need 50, 100, or 200 you can rent them from a server host. As with just about anything you get what you pay for. You are going to want to avoid the cheapest server hosting companies as well as the most expensive.<\/p>\n<p>This is because with the most expensive hosting companies, you&#8217;re being charged for things you probably don&#8217;t need. And by the same token, the cheapest hosting companies are probably not going to give you a lot of features or perks that you&#8217;ll find necessary, including customer service. Perhaps most importantly, though, a major consideration with choosing a hosting company is to decide how much bandwidth you&#8217;re going to need. This is especially true if you&#8217;re part of a gaming community. Especially for gaming communities, you need enough bandwidth that everyone can be accommodated when the server becomes active, so that people won&#8217;t lose or have a poor connection.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also important to have customer service and technical support, of course, but this is probably not your most important consideration with a hosting company when it comes to gaming. With Ventrilo server hosting, customer service is ranked as the satisfactory, but not at the very highest level. It&#8217;s still probably perfectly adequate for your gaming beauty&#8217;s needs, though. Your community should still be able to get any questions or concerns addressed as needed, while still providing the features you want so that you can spend the money on things you&#8217;ll really use.<\/p>\n<p>Active or uptime is also very important when it comes to Ventrilo server hosting. The server has to be active or up most of the time so that you and those in your community can use it. This is why you want to choose a hosting company that&#8217;s going to give you a high percentage of uptime. In fact, you&#8217;ll want a guarantee of 99%; it&#8217;s very common that most companies have a downtime of approximately 1% for maintenance and emergency issues, and this is true of Ventrilo server hosting, too.<\/p>\n<p>There are some major considerations when looking into Ventrilo server hosting and because of this it is a good idea to take the time to make the decision on which aspects are important and even if you need server hosting as a community. Many times it is the community that helps to pay for the costs that come with gaming and these add on applications, which is why it is best decide on Ventrilo server hosting as a community.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>Jarrod Ploof is the founder of UGT-Servers, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.UGT-servers.com\/ventrilo-how-to-guide.php\">ventrilo<\/a> hosting company. He understands the importance of high quality VOIP service, as delivered by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.UGT-servers.com\">ventrilo server<\/a>, to enrich the gamers experience.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re part of the gaming community, you know that this is something very unique. If you want to jump to the next level in your gaming, you&#8217;ll need Ventrilo server hosting. To consider Ventrilo server hosting, as a community, you&#8217;ll need to decide what you&#8217;re looking for in a hosting company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-technology","tag-computers-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}