However, as the complexity of online games increased, many guilds sought after more advanced management features and turned to specialized services to accommodate their needs.
However, there is still a considerable base of users who still employ the older method as it can be cheaper and allows them the flexibility to be creative in their efforts and in some cases be able to transfer their guild sites between hosting services.
Many of the services listed below can be accomplished using a cheap hosting account and several open source scripts and a little bit of time.
[2][3][4] In 2007, Guildomatic launched as the first game-specific guild host, paving the way for even more specialized services tailored to individual games.
[9] The number of guild hosting services continues to grow with the rising popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games.