Tag: Private Server

  • Revisiting Ark

    With life settling down, and my other gaming quieting a bit, we decided over the weekend to revisit Ark: Survival Evolved. We run a home server, so it is a customized and private world, mainly because we dont want to deal with the annoyances of public players. It has been over a year since the…

  • Conan Exiles

    As our interest fades on Ark: Survival, we have converted over to the newly released Conan Exiles.  Still a survival game, but a much different world.  Gone are the dinosaurs, and now there are various tribes that fight against your growth to eventually conquering the world.  The interesting challenge is the subject matter, in comparison…

  • ARK server changes

    A popular game with my family has been Ark: Survival Evolved, a multi-player dinosaur themed survival game that we have played since well before its official release.  Over the last couple of years, we have switched back and forth between a few different server options, sometimes trying to host the custom server ourselves, and sometimes…

  • DNS issues resolved

    After writing my prior post, I of course kept digging, and surprisingly quickly managed to find a solution.  Turns out my issue was not with DNS, but rather with needing a Rewrite directive in my Apache configuration.

  • DNS challenges

    I continue to tinker with the website, trying to add features and options, and continue to struggle a bit with the DNS record configuration.  In my case, I utilize GoDaddy for my domain registration, which works well, but my custom configuration is challenging, as I found out today after trying to make modifications. In parallel…