Frequently Asked Questions

Not much, to put it simply.  It's basically a homepage to tie into our Steam group, a place for people who like our servers to follow server news, and generally just here to look "official."  For the past couple of years it's been half blog and half news for whatever game we're playing at the time.

More recently though, we're starting to pick up some steam and hook up with other server owners, gaming sites and networks.  We're offering extremely low-cost server redirects for owners to host custom maps and other content on, as well as subdomains with web storage for clans that need a place to set up on the cheap.

So what is Apex-Games.net?  We're just another site trying to help out the gaming community!

Most games built on the Source engine (and many others) offer a feature that allows the server owner to host custom maps, models, textures, sounds and any other content on a separate website.  The server then links to a specific folder on the site and players joining the server can download custom stuff without slowing down the server itself, and usually getting better speeds to boot!

In Source based games like Team Fortress 2, a redirect feature looks like this in the host's server.cfg: 

sv_downloadurl "http://www.yoursite/tf/"