Hosting a server on Debian?

[icarusfoundyou]

Hey guys,
Have always been a great fan of Deus Ex and wanted to start playing MP with some of my friends. The problem is I have never found a way to run the server on Debian.

I aim to set up a 24/7 server on my dedicated box which is hosted in the Netherlands.

If anyone could help I would be really appreciative and the server would be completely public.

I have googled it already in the past and not come up with much.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[Alex]

Hey,

You're speaking of a dedicated box, which will mean you need a CLI.
Afaik running a server on a linux box with a GUI (thus not dedicated box..) is possible through wine (If I recall correctly, Konami posted the files/guide required), yet running a DX server through CLI/SSH will be hard if not impossible.

[icarusfoundyou]

Well that's unfortunate, I can't really install a GUI because of the overhead it puts on the server and the billions of files it adds (and yeah, I'm a Debian noob still)

If anyone could help with this I wouldn't mind setting up 2-3 servers depending on the CPU usage; it's a quad core with 4GB of ram and I have about 5TB of bw per month (although I can't imagine Deus Ex being too much of a hog)

[~DJ~]

I'd really like to see more servers hosted but I have no clue.. but have you tried seeing how UT community may do it?

I came up with these hope something helps..

http://www.unrealadmin.org/forums/showt ... hp?t=29121

http://princessleia.com/UT.php

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe ... l0.2.2l4l0

[Alex]

Unreal Tournament has Linux files available whereas Deus Ex doesn't.

[ynnaD]

WHERE'S CHLOE WHEN YOU NEED HER

[Marder]

Didn't Roi Danton use wine? Dunno if that is any help

[bambi]

its easy to host a server.

I just use cheap servers that I find. Get putty, ssh into your server, and then install a GUI. I recommend xfce4 for the gui and ubuntu server.

Then just install updates, and wine. And DX of course. Don't worry about overhead. I'm sure the server has at least 256 mbs ram right? You will be fine.