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Hello, and please excuse if I placed this topic in the wrong section of the forum, but I was wondering if you, NFo, had any plans to support and offer Terraria servers when the dedicated servers are released?
I am a loyal NFo fan and would love to have a Terraria server run by you guys.

We haven't added Minecraft yet, and I'll want to finish that before working on other unique games, but this is something that I will put on my list to investigate.

Ok, seems reasonable enough. I will look forward to one day maybe being able to rent a Terraria server.

would it be possible to buy a vps and host terraria on that?

Yes, that is very likely. An unmanaged VDS can run anything that a regular dedicated machine could, as long as it doesn't have specific hardware requirements (like a hardware 3D accelerator).

I'm not personally interested in it, but a Terraria server might be more manageable than a Minecraft server because worlds aren't generated past the initial generation. They only have three preset sizes.

I have worked a bit with the server side of the game that they added in a recent patch. They are rather basic and simple to run, but there are a couple of concerns in hosting them that I have seen.

First, they use a lot of RAM. Perhaps not as much RAM as Minecraft, but more than a typical game server. I saw had a server running a medium size world using around 400MB of RAM.

The largest concern is that they don't seem to have a way to set the server IP, only the server port. While this wouldn't be a concern for most people wanting to run their own server on a VDS, it does prevent us from being able to host it as a supported game.

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What about on Managed full machines, would NFo be able to add it to them?
The default port is 7777 i think, not that many games use that port.

Managed machines can run only games that are on the regular order page at https://www.nfoservers.com/order.php, so I will need to add support for it in order for managed customers to create servers.

Sorry to Zombie this old thread... but has there been any movement on this? I would love to have you guys host my Terraria server, but it doesn't look as if you guys are offering a managed version of them yet.

Are there any plans on providing a managed game server for Terraria?

Thanks in Advance!

We're still going to look at this further when time permits. One problem before was the high RAM usage, but that has been improved. I haven't run one myself in awhile, so I am not sure just how much improved the RAM usage is.

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I'm running a server with TShock, a Modified server, and its currently hosting a world at 650MB. I'll launch a vanilla server later on tonight, and let you know.

Edit: This is with a LARGE world, for reference

That is still high, but about 300MB better than before if a stock server is about the same.

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Okay, I ran a few tests.

On a Large world (which, I would imagine would be the preferred size for most players), RAM usage was around 1 GIG (!!) after initial new world creation. It looks like this was actually due to the server not releasing resources after it was done.

on a close, and relaunch of the server loading the same new generated world, it hovers around 600 Megs.

Seems there isn't much of a difference between TShock and Stock servers as far as RAM is concerned.

Quick Add:

The newest version of TShock (3.4.2.1233) drops RAM usage down to 250MB! I don't know what they are doing, but they are doing it right!