How To Set-Up Your Own CS:GO Dedicated Server in Less Than 5 Minutes for $5 a Month (Linux)
I recently purchased a cloud SSD server from Digital Ocean for a couple projects I’ve been working on. (If your in the market for a budget cloud server, don’t look any further.) I decided I would set up a CS:GO server to mess around with. It was surprisingly easy, so in this post I’ll explain how I set up my own CS:GO dedicated server in about 5 minutes.
1) Download and Start the Steam Command Line Tool:
You don’t need root to run the server, so it’s recommended you do the installation with a regular user.
wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/steamcmd\_linux.tar.gz
tar -xvzf steamcmd\_linux.tar.gz
./steamcmd.sh
2 ) Install the CSGO Dedicated Server:
At the Steam> prompt:
Login to Steam: (anonymous is fine for installing CS:GO)
login anonymous
NOTE: If you see “Login Failure: No Connection”, run these commands (outside of steamcmd) to open up the ports that steam uses:
iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 27000:27030 --dport 1025:65355 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 4380 --dport 1025:65355 -j ACCEPT
Choose an Install Directory:
force_install_dir ./csgoserver/
Install and validate CS:GO:
app_update 740 validate
3) Configure and Start the Server
Create the file server.cfg in /csgo/cfg/ and add these lines:
hostname "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dedicated Server"
rcon_password "<password>"
You can now start the server with the ./srcds_run command. The command below will start a deathmatch server on de_dust2 (be sure to fill in your IP address before running it):
./srcds_run -game csgo -console -usercon +ip xxx.xxx.xx.xx -port 27015 +game_type 1 +game_mode 2 +mapgroup mg_bomb +map de_dust2
That’s it, you’re done!
You can now open CS:GO and run “connect xxx.xxx.xx.xx” in the console. You can run rcon commands from within the game by first running “rcon_password
Have Fun!
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