7 Days to Die Server Rental

Rent a 7 Days to Die Server with PingPerfect

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7 Days to Die is the original zombie survival game - you can argue it spawned the genre. It's got a bit of everything, fighting, crafting, exploration, survival, you name it, you'll have to do it in 7 Days to Die.

It's set in a post apocalyptic world entirely overrun by the undead. There's so many different types of undead (over 60 unique zombies as of V1.0), you'll forever be challenged by their different attacks and behaviours. There's 5 unique biomes which create a very unique and rich overall environment, and there's plenty of exploring to do as theres thousands of PoI (Points of Interest) that span a world of up to 100 square kilometers in size.

Then there's the basebuilding element, trying to construct a fortified base that will keep away the undead in a post-apocalyptic world, lacking resources, isn't easy! You'll eventually manage it as there's over 1300 unique building blocks... traps, electric power, auto turrets, automated doors and other gadgets are favourable.

Your base isn't the only thing you'll have to manage, you'll also need to keep on top of crafting your weaponry, armor, tools, vehicles etc. There's over 500 recipes so you can develop quite the armament to fight off the undead horde. You can modify your weapons and armor to improve it's effectiveness, and there's various quality ranges too.

Something else to keep in mind is other survivors (players or NPCs) are they friend or foe? Would you be better off combining forces and building a base together... or not? Tough decisions like this must be made if you are to survive.

You'll encounter Trader NPCs who send you off on quests, sometimes for a worthy reward, other times not so much. There are other quests too.

Apart from the constant fight with the undead, you've also got to contend with real-life bio-mechanics, avoiding getting too hot or cold, avoiding disease and other ailments. It's not easy. There's also the wildlife to contend with, wild dogs, bears, and other animals will also be trying to survive around you, and will definitely try and eat you for dinner. Definitely recommend growing some vegetables.

Ultimately 7 Days to Die is a phenomenal survival game, with many very engaging gameplay mechanics that all add together to produce an incredibly fun, action-filled, game that you'll play for hours and hours.

That's where we come in, a Pingperfect 7 Days to Die Game Server makes the gameplay experience as good as it can be, no lag, no stutter, which is an absolute must when trying to escape horde after horde of undead...

What is a game server?

A game server is a specialised computer system that's sole purpose is to process the code required to make multiplayer games function; process player position data, perform physics calculations, hit registration, synchronisation and more... They are essential in providing smooth gameplay that is expected by the modern gamer. Without them, multiplayer gaming wouldn't be as fun, and definitely wouldn't have grown to the scale it has.

To elaborate, a game server determines the game state, then sends that to all players, it calculates the game state every tick, and tick rate is therefore the measure of how often the game state is calculated. Game state is a snapshot of everything occurring in the game world, positional data, physics calculations, environment data, scores, etc... Tick rate is a measure of game state updates. Tick rate is the number of times the game state is calculated and then broadcast to each connected player, every second. The higher the tick rate, the more accurate the game is. Why does tick rate matter? Well, you always want the game you're playing to be accurate, best example is a gun fight, a low tick rate can cause shots that should hit your target, to miss. This leads into why server hardware is so important; server tick rate is directly supported by the underlying hardware, powerful hardware leads to a high tick rate and vice versa. This is because the more often the game state needs updating (a tick), the more CPU power is required to do so, updating the game state 128 times in a second is a damn sight harder than 32 times in a second...

Game servers use the client/server model - simply explained, the server processes almost all the necessary data, then sends it to any connected clients (players). The alternative is the peer-to-peer hosting model, this is where one client (peer) is the host (usually the first to start the game, or the client with the strongest network connection), all other clients send their data to the host, the host then does the processing and sends data back. The client/server model is superior to the peer-to-peer model for many reasons...

The biggest advantage of client/server model game server hosting is accessibility; if the server is online (which it will be, 24/7/365), then any client can connect and enjoy the game. With peer-to-peer hosting, you need the host to leave their personal computer online 24/7/365, that is not very often not feasible. You can get around this by sending the relevant save data at the end of a play session to the next person that will play, but that's time consuming, tedious, and difficult in comparison to having a game server just host the data all the time.
The other big advantage of client/server model game server hosting is superior performance; due to the way peer-to-peer hosting works (data going back and forth between all clients) when a client with poor hardware and/or network connection connects, everyone is held back by them, this doesn't occur with client/server hosting as the server processes' data for each client asynchronously (when data is received, its processed and sent back, theres no waiting for another client).
Game servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and Dedicated Servers all use the client/server model for the aforementioned reasons

Game servers are typically run on shared hardware (this provides cost effectiveness compared to a VPS or Dedicated Server) which means that multiple customers game servers are powered by the same underlying hardware. The CPU, RAM and Storage is split between all the customers. Obviously it's in the best interests of the hosting provider to manage the amount of customers game servers on the underlying hardware to ensure optimal performance. This is very difficult as each game server uses resources differently.

In terms of the actual hardware used for game server hosting, it's not dissimilar to that of a gaming PC. This is because at it's core, every game is a big loop of events (process player position data, perform physics calculations, hit registration, synchronisation and more) that must be performed one after another, cannot be performed at the same time. That therefore favors fast single core performance (high clock cycle speeds). Game servers are no different, they not coincidentally are also a big loop of events, and therefore also benefit from fast single core performance. So using traditional server CPUs that have a large amount of cores, but each core is relatively slow, does not provide the best performance. You will get much better performance from a game server when using gaming PC hardware that has a lesser amount of cores, but each core is relatively fast - high clock speed and high instructions per clock cycle (IPC)