The Game servers are locally or remotely ran dedicated servers which are used by game clients to play league matches in a game enthusiastic community. Normally the data is being sent from game client to the game server remotely from where the game server process the data and send it back out to the clients.
These game servers generally need large amount of bandwidth since there is a continous flow of data as all players are connected at a time. Generally, hosting providers set up a Dedicated server on a separate machine which are often hosted in a data center, the aim are to provide high bandwidth and a secured platform since it does not have to share CPU, that is the reason dedicated servers are more preferable for large game servers and to get 24/7 uptime technically.
Apart from individually hosted dedicated servers there are companies which are called Game Server Providers (GSPs), who lease dedicated game servers out for a monthly fee where these game server providers use Dedicated servers to host Massively multiplayer online games.In general there are two main types of game server provider which are based on Windows operating systems, Linux operating systems or FreeBSD and some game server provider provides both.
The Dedicated server hosting providers frequently offer web based tools to help control and configure the individual game servers and throughout technical support. If you are looking for a game server try to find one who provide you the full tech-support and having proven track record of game server hosting and offer you 99.99% uptime.
