[OldMeister]

Hello Everyone.
i am hosting a game server on my vps on a game called wolfenstein: Enemy territory and in the last 2 days the ping is always high for the players. i have tried to change config or delete bots to see if there is any change but the ping stays high and i dont know what is happening.

[Sn1F3rt]

Try using speedtest CLI to see if your VPS network speed is at par with normal speed or not.

Also, you might wanna use the "top" command to check how much load the game server is actually consuming. Usually this isn't a possibility but in event that the gameserver overloads your VPS it'll have an effect on performance (and for that matter network also) for sure.

[Honey]

Where are your friends playing from? Is it the same location as yours or a different country. Also personally I have noticed that network routing can also effect latency, After that, maybe you can ask your friends to directly ping ur server, if they get lower latency there it might be a game server issue then

[Decent12]

Its normal to have lagg in VPS 18 as the VPS 18 CPU is very weak and also their connection speed is not stable which causes ping spikes.

[OldMeister]

thank you for your kind responds. i have barley time to work on that so i will try your solutions.