Ever since I've gotten into competitive TF2, I've always been curious if there was a way to make the cost of renting TF2 servers cheaper. So a few months ago I decided to try and code a Discord bot that would do just that, and I've succeeded in doing so. My Discord bot will create a temporary TF2 server in Chicago for your team to use in just 6-8 minutes. Servers can currently only be created between 8 - 11:45 PM EST. STVs will be on SizzlingStats.
Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll be able to do with my bot: https://youtu.be/DfjEX-r7-k0
You can learn more about my bot in the welcome channel here: https://discord.gg/kFmZnW6
Since these servers are from Vultr and not NFO, your ping may be slightly different. You can see what your ping will be like by comparing ping 216.52.148.4 and ping il-us-ping.vultr.com in your command prompt.
For the first month, I will try to provide 10 free servers for anyone to use. If anyone chooses to donate to this project, they will be guaranteed a server slot for their own use. I will use this first month to gauge how much the project will cost per month and then adjust how many free servers I can provide.
When you create a server with my bot, it will rent a cloud VPS from Vultr. It will then run some scripts to download TF2 files from a faster location (my VPS, not volvo servers). The bot will then make a custom server.cfg file that gets uploaded to that created server, which will contain generated server and rcon passwords.
For those of you unfamiliar with cloud VPSs, they can be rented by the hour, which is how I can get the server costs to be much lower. For 6s servers, the cost is $0.015 / hour and for HL the cost is $0.03 / hour. To compare this with Tragic and NFO, a Tragic 12-slot server is $8.99 / month which comes out to be $0.012 / hour. An NFO 18-slot server is $14.57 / month, which comes out to be $0.02 / hour. The difference between using my servers and a traditional hoster, is that my server will only be up for the time that you need it, thus bringing down the cost since I rent them per hour.
Thanks for reading and I hope a lot of teams benefit from this project.
Ever since I've gotten into competitive TF2, I've always been curious if there was a way to make the cost of renting TF2 servers cheaper. So a few months ago I decided to try and code a Discord bot that would do just that, and I've succeeded in doing so. My Discord bot will create a temporary TF2 server in Chicago for your team to use in just 6-8 minutes. Servers can currently only be created between 8 - 11:45 PM EST. STVs will be on SizzlingStats.
Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll be able to do with my bot: https://youtu.be/DfjEX-r7-k0
You can learn more about my bot in the welcome channel here: https://discord.gg/kFmZnW6
Since these servers are from Vultr and not NFO, your ping may be slightly different. You can see what your ping will be like by comparing [b]ping 216.52.148.4[/b] and [b]ping il-us-ping.vultr.com[/b] in your command prompt.
For the first month, I will try to provide 10 free servers for anyone to use. If anyone chooses to donate to this project, they will be guaranteed a server slot for their own use. I will use this first month to gauge how much the project will cost per month and then adjust how many free servers I can provide.
When you create a server with my bot, it will rent a cloud VPS from Vultr. It will then run some scripts to download TF2 files from a faster location (my VPS, not volvo servers). The bot will then make a custom server.cfg file that gets uploaded to that created server, which will contain generated server and rcon passwords.
For those of you unfamiliar with cloud VPSs, they can be rented by the hour, which is how I can get the server costs to be much lower. For 6s servers, the cost is $0.015 / hour and for HL the cost is $0.03 / hour. To compare this with Tragic and NFO, a Tragic 12-slot server is $8.99 / month which comes out to be $0.012 / hour. An NFO 18-slot server is $14.57 / month, which comes out to be $0.02 / hour. The difference between using my servers and a traditional hoster, is that my server will only be up for the time that you need it, thus bringing down the cost since I rent them per hour.
Thanks for reading and I hope a lot of teams benefit from this project.
thanks very much. tf2 community is best community :)
thanks very much. tf2 community is best community :)
Guys be nice computers had a draft of this thread for a month too afraid to release it.
Its an amazing bot though and has saved me so much trouble. Computer is a god
Guys be nice computers had a draft of this thread for a month too afraid to release it.
Its an amazing bot though and has saved me so much trouble. Computer is a god
If I ever need any sort of server I'll be sure to use this and recommend it to others. Great job on it computer!!
If I ever need any sort of server I'll be sure to use this and recommend it to others. Great job on it computer!!