
You should be logged in as “root” and first run the following command to open port 7777 UDP, which is the default game port that players will connect to: firewall - cmd - permanent - zone = public - add - port = 7777 / udp Let’s not beat around the bush and proceed with the commands you need to run to quickly set up a SAMP 0.3.7 R2 server on CentOS 7. CentOS 7 is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which offers great performance improvements over CentOS 6 and will be just perfect to run your San Andreas Multiplayer server. While Ubuntu will work nicely, we would recommend that you use CentOS 7 instead. At first you have to select an operating system.

If you want to run your own San Andreas Multiplayer server, we strongly recommend to use Linux for it, although there is a Windows server version too. If you run a larger server, you can also select a dedicated server which offers more powerful resources. Generally it’s a good idea to start with a small VPS with DDoS protection or a protected VPS with unlimited traffic, which will be able to smoothly run your SAMP server due to its ultra-fast SSD storage and high-frequency DDR4 RAM (of course CentOS 7 is available as an operating system).

The best solution is to move your whole SAMP server to a provider who not only offers generic protection, but also anti DDoS rules particularly designed to protect SAMP servers from DDoS attacks. The current version is 0.3.7 and was published almost exactly 9 years after the first release.Īt the time of writing there are almost 4,000 SA-MP servers online and about ten times as many players, and it’s just morning! That’s quite a lot of attention considering that it’s not even an official part of GTA: SA. The first public version 0.1 of the mod was published in May 2006 on and got heavily improved, extended and popular over time. It’s free to operate a SAMP server, but it requires the GTA: SA DVD for players to join.

SA-MP stands for “San Andreas: Multiplayer” and is an unofficial multiplayer (MMO) mod for Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA: SA). In this article we’ll show you what you can do to protect your SAMP from DDoS and run (or keep running) a successful GTA SA:MP server. If the game server operators find themselves in the situation that their server is being attacked by competitors, they need a permanent solution to keep their server online and the players happy and not become a victim of these cyber criminals. Once the game server draws attention and attracts more players than other servers, it becomes the target of cyber attacks, such as DoS and DDoS attacks. DDoS attacks targeting SA-MP servers are posing a major threat to the online gaming community.
