Since April, DatHost has been expanding our presence into the U.S. market, and has since been looking for partners in the area, so that we can ensure the same great quality of our services as we have been delivering to our EU customers, and we’re now happy to announce our first partner in North America: Vault. Vault is a new organization with a professional attitude, dedicated to breeding new talent and share a lot of values with us, making them a natural partner. Vault’s CS:GO squad have participated in CEVO-Main and the qualifiers for RGN NA, and have been showing a lot of potential.
The wait is over – DatHost.net adds Half-Life 3 servers!
Update: As most people figured out, this was an April’s fools. Thanks to everyone who laughed with us, hopefully we’ll see Half-life 3 for real some day!
Nassau, Bahamas – Ever since the release of our CS:GO and Minecraft servers, people have been asking – Where will you go next? What’s the next game to have revolutionized gameserver hosting? To us, the answer was always clear, as in our minds there was only one game that could top the ones we already have. Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of our Half-Life 3 servers.
How to add eBot to your DatHost.net or other dedicated server
Today we’ll go through how you can use eBot with your DatHost.net server or with any other dedicated server. If you are hosting the server yourself, or have your server with another host, you will have to make sure that the cSay plugin is installed on your CSGO server. On DatHost.net servers, you can easily install the cSay plugin with one click.
Let’s learn some smoke grenades on new Cobblestone [CS:GO]
Valve recently updated de_cobblestone, or cbble, after complaints on the map from the community. In short, the changes remove a lot of the large distances and instead makes the map more similar to inferno or dust2, with smaller bombsites and more cover.
We love Cobblestone and think that a lot of the hate it receives is because of the map being different, but also not as explored as other maps. For example, there aren’t any great smoke tutorials out there for this map.
We’ll be trying to help out the community by sharing some grenades, wallbang spots and strategies on the new cobblestone. For this post, we sat down and came up with a lot of useful smokes for Cobblestone. Our focus was on smokes with easy to remember markers and to avoid having to jump / run as much as possible, so the smokes become even more consistent. You can find our smokes below.
DatHost Relaunch – A word from our CEO
A long, wild and bumpy ride
When I first started DatHost 2 years ago, it was as a fun side-project and a way of giving back to the awesome gaming community that I was part of. Not even in my wildest dreams could I imagine the crazy amount of growth that it’d see.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive in 2014
In this post we’ll be discussing some of the things to look out for in 2014 if you’re a CS:GO fan, things like up and coming teams and the state of the game and where it is heading.
Before we begin, let me note that, while I try to provide logical reasons for, or back them up with statistics, this blog post is almost 100% personal opinions and speculation. I do not expect everyone to agree, and I encourage you to voice your own opinion or ideas either in the comments, on reddit or on social media.
Dat Host Launches Minecraft servers!
As of today, we have Minecraft servers available for rent. You have the chance to get one cheap!
We’ve been hard at work here at Dat Host, ensuring that we can give you a great service. Today’s update includes a new control panel(log in and take a look!), a credit system and Minecraft servers.
de_inferno nade spots
Inferno is one of the most popular maps in the game, and has been in every game in the CS franchise. Recently, there seems to have been a lot of people struggling with this map, so we will be doing a blog series that will teach you how to play this map as well as possible.
As always, if you want more blog posts like these, feel free to follow us on Twitter and/or like us on Facebook. To rent a CS:GO server, go here.
In the second part of this blog series, we will be covering smokes and flash grenades. The usage of these grenades are what really separates the great players from the good ones. We’ve compiled 2 great playlists for you to help.
de_inferno basic tips
Inferno is one of the most popular maps in the game, and has been in every game in the CS franchise. Recently, there seems to have been a lot of people struggling with this map, so we will be doing a blog series that will teach you how to play this map as well as possible.
As always, if you want more blog posts like these, feel free to follow us on Twitter and/or like us on Facebook. To rent a CS:GO server, go here.
First of all, it’s important that you know what all the different places of the map are called, so that you can easily communicate with your team mates and let them know where the enemies are at, and where you are going.
5 great CS:GO frag movies
As always, if you want more blog posts like these, feel free to follow us on Twitter and/or like us on Facebook. To rent a CS:GO server, go here.
Frag movies have always been a large part of the CS community. There’s been some amazing ones during 2012. Let’s have a look at some of our personal favorites as we look forward to the ones to come in 2013.