[Answered] Byond Game Hosting Possible?

[GamerGoddess]

I am running a gaming site and I am thinking about offering to host one or two BYOND games at a time. However I do not know if I have that access, how to use it if I do, or how much cpu it would use per game. If anyone knows something about this please help me out.

[Krydos]

I have no idea what byond is, but in general if something requires compiling or running an executable the answer is no; If it just uses a scripting language like php to run or something like that then the answer is generally yes. If you provide a link to the server installation system requirements or installation instructions we can take a look at it and give you a more specific answer. I did notice that you have a tag called "shell" so I can point out that Heliohost users do not have access to shell.

[Shinryuu]

From what I understood here: http://www.byond.com/forum/?post=30260 BYOND is meant to be installed and run from a PC. Also it's an executable so

if something requires compiling or running an executable the answer is no

[GamerGoddess]

Thank you for helping, I guess I will have to have someone else host the test runs.

 

@Shinryuu There is a Linux version for hosting the games, you can't play the game from Linux directly but you can host the game world if you have shell access.