Can a gameserver run on my website?

[TeddyKrulewich]

I have a friend who is making a multiplayer game. I want to know if there is a way to use my website to keep track of players. I was thinking it may be done in php, but i wasnt sure, and i dont want to spend days reading about php when im not sure its the answere.

[jhecht]

What kind of game is it? is it a game made in PHP or is it just something else?

[TeddyKrulewich]

Something else. The game is written in java, but is there a way to make it so it can recieve commands from a computer when the game pings my websites ip or something? This may be a dumb question, but I have to ask.

[TeddyKrulewich]

IF I cant run a server, can i have something that keeps track of ip's. If Mr. Bob makes a server, I want it to register its ip on my site, but do the real work itself. Lets say someone wants to join a server. The game would contact my site and ask for the ip's of available servers, then he would see Mr. Bob's server and join. Is this possible?PS Mr Bob is a funny name

[justsomeguy]

In order for that to be possible, you need to be able to change the game itself to look at your server in the first place. You can have your server get the request and do whatever you want with it to send a response, and have the game respond however you want it to, but you need to be able to edit the code on both the game and the server in order for the game to send your server the appropriate information, have your server process that and send the appropriate response, and have the game respond to that appropriately.