Dedicated Servers for small games

Zaphire

Hello guys,

Where/what is the cheapest way to host a dedicated server for small games?

mikethetike

Depends on what you need. If it is purely web-based, you might be able to host it for free on azure.

Zaphire

It should be a small dedicated server running that will process the movement of quite a lot of players.

clive

Personally I use Digital Ocean:
https://www.digitalocean.com/

Zaphire

@clive we are using it for our gitlab hosting but we want to host the dedicated servers in South Africa specifically otherwise the game will lag for South Africans.

clive

There's no such thing as low cost South African hosting.

dislekcia

clive said:

There's no such thing as low cost South African hosting.

This is unfortunately very true :(

clive

MWeb Gaming hosts a few dedicated servers, the best you could possibly hope for is that your game is popular enough that they decide themselves to fire up a box with your server side (if you make dedicated server executables available). It might actually be worth approaching them, if anyone in MGSA has contacts within there - I used to, but sadly don't anymore. Approach from an angle of "Proudly South African" and maybe they could feature some South African game servers ... but this is probably a different discussion.

clive

I mean this area: http://www.mweb.co.za/games/servers

Zaphire

Yes I have good contacts with the Mweb guys but we would like to host it on our own first to see how it goes and if it gets popular I will contact them.