Hi i am a BSD geek and i am new to the whole GSP biz but i would like to know if there is any GSPs running FreeBSD on there game server hosting servers?
If you do please let me know what control panel you use etc :)
And if you dont run BSD what Os is the best to run when u hosting games?

Summit Servers runs FreeBSD. For HL/HL2 based games BSD is just fine.

And if you dont run BSD what Os is the best to run when u hosting games?
Run whatever you know how to secure/administer the best. I know HLDS/srcds at least should run on everything.

My fav is FreeBSD of course :) how about other then hlds like cod/BF do it run on bsd/linux? i am new to game server stuff so sorry if its stupid questions...

No control panels, and we're not a GSP... but stress-testing a new machine that's not urgently needed usually involves some TF2 or Left4Dead. They run great on FreeBSD, however I had to play some games with the sysctl variables for linuxulator to get a 2.6 kernel, and then install a different linux_base for the 2.6 kernel... srcds ran like garbage when emulating a 2.4 kernel for me.

thanks all for your imputs :) i will start some experiment soon on 2 identical servers same hardware and run linux on one and freebsd on the other to see if there is any preformence benefits with bsd agianst linux, btw is there any linux disto that work beter then the other when it comes to GSP?

thanks all for your imputs :) i will start some experiment soon on 2 identical servers same hardware and run linux on one and freebsd on the other to see if there is any preformence benefits with bsd agianst linux, btw is there any linux disto that work beter then the other when it comes to GSP?

Most any flavor would work fine however tweaking it is where you will find the extra juice so my advise would be choose whichever distro you are comfortable with.

Summit Servers runs FreeBSD. For HL/HL2 based games BSD is just fine.

Well you should also mention that you have a guru who customizes your BSD kernels and binaries for HLDS/SRCDS :) :agree:

Well you should also mention that you have a guru who customizes your BSD kernels and binaries for HLDS/SRCDS :) :agree:

We've got a great team, no question.

For anyone who is even reasonable familiar with Nix/BSD, running game servers won't be tough.