Dedicated servers for Battlefield 4
"The MWEB GameZone team is confident that the new servers will provide sufficient infrastructure to cater for the South African Battlefield 4 PC gamers," said Desmond Kurz, MWEB's online gaming manager.
"Not only will there be public servers available, but Battlefield 4 gamers will also be able to rent their own server to administer and run. Courtesy of our partnership with Gameservers.com, players are able to rent their own Ranked Battlefield 4 servers from a minimum 10-player server, right up to a 70-player server."
This server deployment to both the Cape Town and Joburg data centres includes two sets of server types, catering both to large volume, low to mid-range slot count servers (16 to 48 players) as well as servers catering specifically to running performance-hungry 64 to 70 player servers.
The 64 to 70-player game servers are deployed on Dell PowerEdge R210 II physicals, sporting high-clock-speed processors that are capable of dealing with the intense performance requirements needed for lag-free epic battle on this scale. A total of four of these servers will be deployed, two in Cape Town and two in Joburg.
The servers built for mass deployment of multiple, low to medium-range game servers, typically favoured by Battlefield 4 clans for tournaments and clan matches will be hosted on workhorse Dell PowerEdge R520 servers. Two of these powerful machines will be rolled out, one to each of the data centre locations.
"South Africa's late inclusion into the Battlefield 4 programme left us with some quick work to get done to make this deployment possible. We're grateful to our partners at Dell, Gameservers.com and the MWEB networks and hosting teams at MWEB who put in a lot of work to make this happen at short notice," said Kurz.
"We're also glad that the perseverance of the MWEB GameZone team in chasing wins like this for SA gamers paid off. Hopefully, console servers for Battlefield 4 will also eventually become a reality. Nonetheless, we are very grateful to the EA and DICE for allowing this deployment to happen."
For players wanting to rent their own servers, go to the Gameservers.com Battlefield 4 server rental page, where you can get your server deployed in minutes and have access to a control panel to configure and customise your BF4 server. Ten-player servers start from as little as R128 per month and gamers can have the option of also renting a Teamspeak 3, Ventrillo or Mumble server to accompany their BF4 server.
For more, go to www.gameservers.com.
