Ventrilo VPS: VoIP for Gamers

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Ventrilo is a VoIP chatting software that allows people to speak to each other in real time, without the need for phone calls or Skype. Vent, as it’s known, is often used for those individuals who play online games and RPGs that may require them to speak to team or group members; these are mostly popular games such as World of Warcraft, where gamers from all over the world can participate in quests, monster hunting, and dungeons.

Ventrilo Hosting allows gamers to set up their own server quickly and easily, allowing members of a group, guild or clan to chat during online gaming. The Ventrilo software itself comes in two editions – The Public Version, which is free, and the Pro version, which is paid. The free version is for personal use, such as speaking to family or friends or that of gamers; the paid version is meant for business use. With your ownVentrilo VPS, you can have your own personalized server to share with your friends, family, guild, clan or anyone you please.

What does this offer? Say you have a clan within Counter-Strike, World or Warcraft or some other online game; with Ventrilo VPS and hosting, a server is made for the group so that they can have chats with each other while playing. This is especially great for larger guilds, as they can use this to set up private chats or officer chats. This also means that no unauthorized players are allowed access to these chats unless given the address or password.

Server requirements for Vent are usually minimal, depending on where you plan on hosting the server. Third party hosting services may base their requirements on how many people will using the Vent server. The cheapest prices are offered to those that have around five people – or users – that will be using the server; the more people within your group, the more you will spend. If you are managing your own server, you may want to start with a fairly modest setup, and increase your server specs as usage ramps up.

As Ventrilo provides a VoIP server, typically you will need to increase your bandwidth as usage goes up. The application uses the GSM 6.10 codec, and as a result the more people in the channel, there more bandwidth will need to be used. Casual or semi-casual gamers could probably do with a locally hosted server, while larger raid groups or guilds would best benefit from using a third party Ventrilo VPS server, as these groups usually total in the hundreds in terms of members.

Both the client and server Ventrilo programs can be located from the official Vent website, along with instructions and FAQs about installation should anything go wrong. The site also offers a forum area for users to ask questions that may not be answered by the official FAQ.