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Hi Automatix, If you are expecting 200 users online, I would recommend using a cheap dedicated or a VPS. A very cheap and reliable provider is 'Datashack'; they provide "wholesale" prices for dedicated servers (what companies usually pay per server, if they were to buy in bulk). They provide 24/7 support, and offer a great network which is linked with bandwidth providers such as Cogent, Hurricane Electric, and KCIX; all their servers come with a 1Gbit port. The only thing about Datashack is that they will null-route your service for 24hrs if a large DDOS attack is detected. (EssenceRO uses Datashack, and usually if no players hold a grudge against you; you don't have to worry about DDOS) For high-class VPS providers, I would suggest 'Linode'. They also have 24/7 support, and fairly decent VPS's; though everything is fair share and they will also null-route you if you get DDOS'ed, but for only a few hours until attack settles. If you're looking for RO-orientated hosting services; I would suggest taking a look at the Paid Services section, several companies advertise there and you can do some research and see what suits you best. Hi Spre, I'd disagree... our $8 RO-512 package is pretty good, it can host quite a lot of players and comes with some great specifications. You purchased our regular VPS package which differs a lot from our RO Packages; location, hard disk configuration, processor, port speed, bandwidth providers, and more... I'm sure some of my customers would be willing to vouch for this; as particular clients have hosted up to 150 players on the RO-512 with no issues. Hi Jasc, We know we didn't have the best track record in September due to the excessive massive DDOS attacks against one of our customers on the Master node; but our standard nodes did not suffer from any issues. (Besides the motherboard failing for US03, but was replaced within 45 minutes of the server failure; with notifications immediately sent out.) Also, we do offer dedicated servers now; which come with standard UDP DDOS filtration, and network route optimization for Singapore/Malaysia/Philippines for less hops.

Hi Mentalist, You will need to portforward the ports for the map/char/login servers (6900, 6121, 5121). You can use this site to learn how to portforward for your router: http://portforward.com/

Hi wiideliva, I have to agree with Spre; since you are renting a VPS with CentOS, there should be no reason for you to touch the subnet configuration. You can leave the default values as Spre had mentioned, and it'll work just fine.

Hi WillSuranol, Have you already installed GDB? And what does the config.log say?

Hi fredou81, I would suggest to turn error reporting on; you can do this by editing '/config/error.php' and then switch false to true. After this, visit your FluxCP once again and let us know what error message it displays in the center and not the top.

Hi Keops, I believe you need to have the source code to make modifications; I'm not sure if there's a way you can actually de-compile a DLL file to get the source.

Hi AllHailToTheKing, I would try sending them an e-mail. Look through your own inbox to check what support e-mail they used, and then send your support request to that e-mail address. Good Luck.

Hi Guys, Back in High School, I use to have a RO server called 'SurgeRO'. Back then, I was the only developer of the server and it peaked to a little above 500 players. It works fine if you are the only developer, but you have to be motivated in both making the server and communicating with your players. I know Latheesan (Owner of AsuraHosting), would agree with me as he has also created multiple servers back then as well. The best way to get players, is to communicate and create lots of fun events hosted by GMs with good prizes. Create some decent custom items, and use those as prize events; make your players feel special on the server and they will surely stay to see what else is coming.

Hi powerboxx, Unless you are trying to use different IP's for the different char/map/login servers, you should not be using the bind function. If you are using 1 IP to host all servers; it's better to leave it commented with // in front of the bind_ip value.

Hi Poter21, I had recently replied to your question that you submitted to AH's client area; but I shall reply here as well just in case you did not see my reply. If you are having issues with a huge DDOS attack, I would recommend checking out Staminus and purchasing the SecurePort system for the amount of traffic you wish to be filtered. You have asked if AsuraHosting can handle this type of attack, and I stated no. We handle up to 10Gbit/s of traffic which is equivalent to about 1.2Gbps; we use a 2 dedicated server array for our DDOS protected services. 1 dedicated server equipped with Snort & pFSense, placed in front of the other dedicated server to host our RO services; not an advanced scrubbing method like other big providers, but good enough to get the job done against reasonably sized TCP-based DDOS attacks and all UDP attacks. What I would recommend is contacting LSN, and get 5 IP's. Bind each map, char, and login server with different IP's and set up custom ports which should be something like '12203,12204,12205'; and then hex your client to read a hidden clientinfo.xml. For SYN protection; please contact me and I will provide you with the sysctl.conf which AsuraHosting uses for our dedicated servers; this will help a lot in deterring Spoofed Attacks. And for software, you should use CSF+LFD; with the proper PORTFLOOD, CT_LIMIT, CONNLIMIT, and SYNFLOOD values set. Again, you will need to contact me, and I can provide a personal service. --- Unfortunately there isn't a cheap way to deter DDOS attacks, so there only way is to spend $200-$500 a month for a somewhat decent provider with protection. And RoDocs does not have DDOS protection; they rely on a 1Gbit port, no filtration, and their network technicians to manually mitigate. (PNAP datacenter, this is what they do.)

Hi Xephyras, It does not work via Sandbox, and only works in the Live environment.

Hi vlatag12, Try posting in this section: http://rathena.org/board/forum/35-source-support/ This is more of a source error, instead of a 3rd party; good luck.

Hi Freya Jorgenson, You can rename the directory anytime; you just have to make sure you edit the name in the '/config/application.php' as well.

Hi victorfa1, Make sure your MySQL port 3006 is portforwarded on your side, and also check if your ISP has this port closed off or not. If it is, you may have to use a different port for your MySQL service.

Hi Tande, Have you imported the 'item_db', 'item_db2', 'mob_db', and 'mob_db2' SQL databases?

Hi WhiteEagle, Try using your VPS's IP instead of 127.0.0.1; see what error pops up from that.

Hi WhiteEagle, Does your Athena server start up properly? Or is this just the FluxCP having issues? Cause I find it hard to believe that you need to open the port when you're trying to just access via 'localhost'. It just seems like the MySQL server isn't accepting any connections, maybe the process is being binded and listening to a specific IP address.

Hi WhiteEagle, Is your Ragnarok Athena server hosted on the same server as your FluxCP? Or is your FluxCP on another host/webhost?

Hi victorfa1, You don't need phpMyAdmin/SQL on your webhost to host FluxCP. All you need to do is put in the proper values for the FluxCP to connect to your MySQL database on your computer, and it should work just fine. The file you should edit for this is, '/config/servers.php'; make sure you enter your Ragnarok SQL database information, and also allow the MySQL user to have access to connect from your webhost.

Hi Rage, Try clearing the cache by deleting all the .php files inside the '/data/tmp' folder; then re-register the account once again to see if it works.

Hi mightyryan, Here is a search done for 'fluxcp donation sandbox' on the forum; I believe this is the solution you are looking for... http://rathena.org/board/topic/61591-fluxcp-paypal-problems/

Hi Kaito Kid, I think this section would be more appropriate for this issue: http://rathena.org/board/forum/19-client-patcher-support/ Good luck!

Hi eVoL, You need to make sure that '6910' is open for TCP connections, and also if the Login server is running properly. Try to first run the Login server by itself with ./login-server_sql, and make sure there are no errors during the run time.

Hi Winz, Unfortunately, that would not work out properly. Because the player has to connect to the char server as well; and the login server would direct the traffic to the IP of '127.0.0.1', which is the wrong IP address. Ultimately, you'd have to use your VPS IP as the values for the login_ip/char_ip/map_ip in the conf files.

Hi tallowisp, I have responded to the other post of bcangussu's issue; you may find my explanation of the issue here: http://rathena.org/board/topic/71800-info-closed-connection-from-ip-instant-upon-logging-in/#entry143585