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Requirements

For On-Premise and Hosted plan

  • A domain name (I suggest buying one from OVH)
  • A STMP service (like amazon SES, sendgrid, etc…) or an email address which supports SMTP (a free email like gmail, hotmail, etc… will not work). If you buy the domain name from OVH you will get a free email address. Namecheap also offers a very cheap email service.
  • I don’t provide free support to setup smtp services like sendgrid, amazon ses etc… that require DNS configuration.
  • Website read all information from DB tables, NO TXTs! So item_proto information will be read from the item proto db table, not from txts! If you are using TXTs, you can enable Mysql2Proto (aka Mirror2DB) function that will mirror your txt files into db tables. In this way the db tables will be updated with the last values from your txt every time you restart the server.
  • Mysql 5.6 is not supported because it’s too old. Your server should be running at least mysql 5.7, better if 8.x or MariaDb.
  • A game server (or test game server) where to connect the website. The website needs to be connected to a game server in order to work.

For On-Premise plan only

  • A clean VPS with Debian 12. A shared hosting is not suitable to run this CMS. Make sure the VPS and Game Server are in the same country or in two very close country for lowest latency possible.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I buy a domain name?

I suggest one of the following providers:

  • Cloudflare
  • OVH

Any other provider will be good too, but these are my top picks.

Where can I buy a VPS?

I usually suggest getting a VPS from OVH for one simple reason: it does not block email port.

Many VPS providers will block port 25 (or 465) which is used to send emails. OVH does not block this port.

The performance of OVS VPS are quite good and it will handle many players.

The minimum requirement for the website is to have at least 4GB ram (better if 8GB), min 2 CPU cores (better if 4). The minimum requirement of disk space is 20GB.

Make sure that the VPS and the game server are in close countries. If you host the game server in France and the website VPS is in Canada the website will be fking slow due to the insane latency.

So rent the game server and website VPS in the same country or in close contries.

Where can I get a SMTP service for the email?

There are many STMP servers out there, but most of them are not really cheap.

To better addreess your question, I need to know first your need, which is: How many email will you be sending from the website?

If you are sending confirmation email for registration, you will send many emails. Otherwise, you will be only sending emails for forget password, forget login, etc... which are way less.

I usually suggest going with one of the following email providers:

  • Amazon SES: I do not provide assistance for it. Go for it only if you know how to make an account, create the email and pass the verification.
  • Namecheap: very good if you plan to send a limited amount of emails.
  • Resend: very good for any amount of emails but can become pricey. My suggestion is to start with the free plan during your beta period and then upgrade to the 20$/month plan once your server officially goes live.