Why Hosting Companies are Struggling with Palworld Dedicated Servers

Game server hosting companies are struggling with Palworld dedicated servers. Why is that? In this video, we'll talk about my adventures getting a dedicated server running as well as how game hosting companies work and why Palworld is so rough for them.
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[@EbrithilAbrArget]

So what I'm hearing is we need to download more ram. 😝

[@NigiriandRune]

You wouldn't believe how often that joke came up in the support discord servers

[@oofman8562]

Rune why haven’t you posted in 7 motnths

[@tringuyenminh2377]

Do you know some good hosting service is Asia?

[@Dracconus]

Another issue that I've discovered running my own Dedicated server from my machine at home is that there are HUGE network spikes whenever players teleport into bases that have a lot of doors due to their "state checking" closing and reopening any doors that were opened and doing the same with closed, just, opposite. This results in a flood of packets being sent that - due to the way their traffic is shaped - essentially DDOSes your own server and the only real "fix" I've found is to limit the amount of traffic each client is able to send at a time, which, obviously, isn't ideal.

[@just_pudding]

super informative and cool learning about this from a tech perspective!

[@NigiriandRune]

Thanks :). I've been having a lot of fun playing with servers lately. Probably spending way too much on shiny new toys

[@bromanninenineseven6094]

Thanks a bunch for this insight! I've been dancing around the ideas of running my own dedi server or renting one. I'm the type that doesn't want to spend more than $30 a month but able to build pc. I got my answer after watching your video!

[@NigiriandRune]

I've been watching my server for a few weeks now and the highest I've seen memory get is 40GB. If you have 32GB you should be fine, but if you have 64GB you'll definitely be fine.

[@LegendaryBattalion]

I'm just gonna wait on servers for the time being, they're currently unplayable.

[@NigiriandRune]

Sadly, it might be a while. Without knowing how the game is coded it might be something as simple as changing server code to unload map areas that aren't being used or something more fundamental and difficult embedded deep within the engine.

[@cocopuffz604]

Well that explains alot. I'm on Nitrado and it's only "usable" at ungodly hours of the day. If it's peak time I've getting heavy rubberbandiing. A few engine.ini tweaks help a bit connectivity wise but eventually it's going to need a reboot. I have to remind myself this thing is early access and heavy optimizations are still in the works. I'm almost took my whole place down removing a pal bed... focussed on the bed... then rubberbanded to a load bearing wall. lol

[@NigiriandRune]

Nitrado was the second provider we tried that I mentioned. The rubber banding was horrible and the support was not helpful at all. We very quickly moved away from them

[@cocopuffz604]

@@NigiriandRune Are there things client side that can help? out of desperation I tried another KZbin suggestion "-novid" and "-high" on steams launch string options and its been very smooth today. Either that or the server I'm on isn't having a heavy usage day...

[@NigiriandRune]

I'm unaware of any client side settings that can help use less memory on the server.

[@Mikey-g5n]

So, what provider and plan do you use?

[@NigiriandRune]

That's just it. I don't have a plan. I am more or less my own provider now. I just googled "root server rental" - found a server with stats and a location I liked, then set up Palworld on it.

[@chopz6680]

could you possibly make a guide on how to do that? I really want to set up one with my friends but don't know how@@NigiriandRune

[@NigiriandRune]

This is fairly dangerous stuff to do without being a knowledgeable sysadmin. If you make a mistake like not uploading a security patch, modifying firewall rules, or something else you could have your server get hacked, send out some really bad stuff, and then have the FBI come knocking on your door. If you really want to go down this route, I recommend looking for steamcmd setup guides, but be very careful that you know enough OS sysadmin to prevent bad stuff from happening.

[@semadar856]

Hope all is well👋🏻