@webhostingservers said:
I've vps from Zap
how about their web hosting terms? anything specific about termination?
The trick with Zap is the termination for not logging in. You have to login into the client area and visit your lifetime service every 3 months; if not, the service will get disabled. This is not a normal lifetime service, in a sense that you pay, setup your service, and forget about it, while it is executing its services; you are not allowed to forget about it, instead you must login into Zap website and check your service page.
Personally I do not have any lifetime service from them. In general I love any automation, even automatic payments, because they allow me to forget and enjoy life while the configured services run. I can't see a way to automate this with Zap, so it is not a lifetime in my humble opinion, because it is paid with extra time and to-do calendars, besides money.
@webhostingservers said:
I've vps from Zap
how about their web hosting terms? anything specific about termination?
The trick with Zap is the termination for not logging in. You have to login into the client area and visit your lifetime service every 3 months; if not, the service will get disabled. This is not a normal lifetime service, in a sense that you pay, setup your service, and forget about it, while it is executing its services; you are not allowed to forget about it, instead you must login into Zap website and check your service page.
Personally I do not have any lifetime service from them. In general I love any automation, even automatic payments, because they allow me to forget and enjoy life while the configured services run. I can't see a way to automate this with Zap, so it is not a lifetime in my humble opinion, because it is paid with extra time and to-do calendars, besides money.
To be fair, they are sending email reminders, and I just have a Google Calender event set to recurring to remind me every 60ish days to open all my products in the dashboard once. Doesn't take me long. The email reminder they send to you even includes a direct link to the product you need to open in dashboard iirc. Even if your product gets deactivated you have 4 weeks to contact them to re-activate it.
Really enjoying the fact, that they allow you to install their in-house gameserver panel on your vps/dedi and install basically all the games for which they also offer gameservers, which comes to about nearly 600 games (but I think mods are also counted as games, so..). The gameserver panel is only accessible from your ZAP dashboard (so secured and not public-facing), and you can install/manage multiple gameservers respective to your vps/dedis specs. Once you install a gameserver via the panel, it then appears in the gameservers-tab in your dashboard and you can configure/manage it from there, just as if you had rented a gameserver. Pretty happy with this, as I've also used LGSM, Pterodactyl, and Pufferpanel in the past, but very happy with this solution, really.
@Ympker said:
Really enjoying the fact, that they allow you to install their in-house gameserver panel on your vps/dedi and install basically all the games for which they also offer gameservers, which comes to about nearly 600 games (but I think mods are also counted as games, so..). The gameserver panel is only accessible from your ZAP dashboard (so secured and not public-facing), and you can install/manage multiple gameservers respective to your vps/dedis specs. Once you install a gameserver via the panel, it then appears in the gameservers-tab in your dashboard and you can configure/manage it from there, just as if you had rented a gameserver. Pretty happy with this, as I've also used LGSM, Pterodactyl, and Pufferpanel in the past, but very happy with this solution, really.
@Ympker said:
Really enjoying the fact, that they allow you to install their in-house gameserver panel on your vps/dedi and install basically all the games for which they also offer gameservers, which comes to about nearly 600 games (but I think mods are also counted as games, so..). The gameserver panel is only accessible from your ZAP dashboard (so secured and not public-facing), and you can install/manage multiple gameservers respective to your vps/dedis specs. Once you install a gameserver via the panel, it then appears in the gameservers-tab in your dashboard and you can configure/manage it from there, just as if you had rented a gameserver. Pretty happy with this, as I've also used LGSM, Pterodactyl, and Pufferpanel in the past, but very happy with this solution, really.
Nice this is a cool feature!
It is Used it to setup CS:CZ for me and the boys for reviving some glorious memories I also asked whether you can "overprovision" the gameservers, since e.g. my vps has 8GB of RAM, but in a scenario where I'd like to setup multiple gameservers, I want to allow them using enough ram, however, they likely won't need it all of the time. Luckily, the gs panel doesn't count the RAM limits you provide to the gameservers against the vps RAM.
So I can have 3 CSCZ servers, assigning 3GB RAM to each of them, although my vps has only 8GB RAM. No idea why I thought over provisioning may be restricted, but I'm just glad it isn't.
This seems to also work for Gameservers created on VPS with ZAP panel. The gameservers appear as "individual" gameservers (like if you rented one) in your dashboard, but show that they're linked to a specific vps. Pretty cool
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The trick with Zap is the termination for not logging in. You have to login into the client area and visit your lifetime service every 3 months; if not, the service will get disabled. This is not a normal lifetime service, in a sense that you pay, setup your service, and forget about it, while it is executing its services; you are not allowed to forget about it, instead you must login into Zap website and check your service page.
Personally I do not have any lifetime service from them. In general I love any automation, even automatic payments, because they allow me to forget and enjoy life while the configured services run. I can't see a way to automate this with Zap, so it is not a lifetime in my humble opinion, because it is paid with extra time and to-do calendars, besides money.
Same inactivity rule as for other lifetime products. Open product in dashboard every x days (60, I think). But they also send reminders per email.
To be fair, they are sending email reminders, and I just have a Google Calender event set to recurring to remind me every 60ish days to open all my products in the dashboard once. Doesn't take me long. The email reminder they send to you even includes a direct link to the product you need to open in dashboard iirc. Even if your product gets deactivated you have 4 weeks to contact them to re-activate it.
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Really enjoying the fact, that they allow you to install their in-house gameserver panel on your vps/dedi and install basically all the games for which they also offer gameservers, which comes to about nearly 600 games (but I think mods are also counted as games, so..). The gameserver panel is only accessible from your ZAP dashboard (so secured and not public-facing), and you can install/manage multiple gameservers respective to your vps/dedis specs. Once you install a gameserver via the panel, it then appears in the gameservers-tab in your dashboard and you can configure/manage it from there, just as if you had rented a gameserver. Pretty happy with this, as I've also used LGSM, Pterodactyl, and Pufferpanel in the past, but very happy with this solution, really.
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Nice this is a cool feature!
It is
Used it to setup CS:CZ for me and the boys for reviving some glorious memories 
I also asked whether you can "overprovision" the gameservers, since e.g. my vps has 8GB of RAM, but in a scenario where I'd like to setup multiple gameservers, I want to allow them using enough ram, however, they likely won't need it all of the time. Luckily, the gs panel doesn't count the RAM limits you provide to the gameservers against the vps RAM.
So I can have 3 CSCZ servers, assigning 3GB RAM to each of them, although my vps has only 8GB RAM. No idea why I thought over provisioning may be restricted, but I'm just glad it isn't.
More info on GS panel: https://zap-hosting.com/guides/docs/vserver-linux-gs-interface/
Apparently you can also create users within ZAP panel and provide them with access to Gameserver management or even vps: https://zap-hosting.com/guides/docs/account-usermanagement/
This seems to also work for Gameservers created on VPS with ZAP panel. The gameservers appear as "individual" gameservers (like if you rented one) in your dashboard, but show that they're linked to a specific vps. Pretty cool
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.