Games have been played from the early stages of mankind. Games teach us how to control anger, handle excitement, to learn from mistakes and to accept defeat. As the technology has improved a lot the gaming standards have also improved equally. For gamers, a type of internet hosting service called ‘Game server hosting‘ is available. Game server hosting is a type of internet hosting in which the servers are specially designed, manufactured and hosted for gamers who play games on the internet. ‘Game client’ is the software which is used by the gamers to connect to different game servers. One of the best part of the game server is that, many players can connect to the server at the same time. There are two different types of game servers available, one is the Listen server and the other is the Dedicated server. Individual players generally use Listen server and can also use it on Local Area Network (LAN) party. On the other hand Dedicated server is setup on a remote server. Dedicated server is generally kept in a data center where servers for other different purposes are also setup.

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One of the points which may be considered a drawback of Dedicated game server is the fact that the maintenance cost of dedicated game server is quite high and this is due to the Bandwidth used by the server. One of the best options to use a Dedicated game server is to pay and get access of the dedicated server. Many of the gaming clans, in other words groups, also pay for this service sometimes. Game server hosting also offers many other features apart from this. One of this is voice capability. A system is used for this purpose which is called ‘Ventrilo’. Ventrilo is a voice communication system which makes it easier for the players of the game to communicate among themselves. This is a very good system for the gamers as they can use headphones for communicating with each other, build strategies and plan out to defeat the opponents without typing which saves a lot of time. Other features of a Dedicated game server include the feature of advanced statistics which is provided by some of the web hosting companies. This feature enables advanced statistics to each player on the server. Some servers have the capability to provide the location of each user on the server on Google maps. The location of each player on the server is also displayed with the help of a map.

All these and many other features make Dedicated game servers a very good option for gamers and this is the reason for Dedicated game servers being accepted all over the world by many of the gamers.