It’s impossible to predict how many players you’re going to get at launch.
Which is why you need infrastructure that will scale with the success of your game, while maintaining flexibility to keep costs under control for non-peak periods.
Using dedicated gaming servers as part of your infrastructure guarantees consistent low latency wherever your players are in the world and significantly reduces infrastructure overheads for your baseline CCU.
Not sure what that baseline is yet? Flexible contracts allow you to scale down as easily as scaling up - helping you optimize spend and respond to player demand.
Keep your players happy with a high-performance network designed for gaming to keep packet loss and latency to a minimum.
Keep your bottom line happy with great value infrastructure that delivers.
Planning your infrastructure needs for a new game launch can be complex. Our gaming team specialize in helping gaming companies build scalable, front-end dedicated gaming server solutions that meet the needs of the game and the players. Working closely with customers to understand timelines and predicted concurrent user numbers to ensure that your game launches with as little friction as possible.
Wherever you are in your game development, launch or ongoing management, we can partner with you to create a customized infrastructure solution that works for you.
From alpha and beta testing phases to launch and beyond, our gaming team will be there to support you in making your game a success.
Avoid over or under-spending on your infrastructure. To keep up with your players, provision dedicated gaming servers in under an hour. And when demand drops following peak times, scale down your gaming servers just as easily.
Dedicated bare metal servers that provide the high clock speed CPUs that single-threaded applications need to run effectively. And with the server resource dedicated to you, you can feel confident that the performance of the server won’t be compromised by other tenants.
Avoid the unpredictable and inflated prices of hyperscale cloud for your baseline CCU. Dedicated gaming servers provide a much more cost-effective solution for your predictable player base.
Our dedicated account managers are specialists in infrastructure planning - working backwards from your launch date to develop a roadmap for a successful launch. Available on your platform of choice, whether that’s Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp.
With data centers in key locations around the world, including the US, Europe, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong, we can ensure consistent low latency for your players. No more rubber banding or mistimed shots as a result of high latency or packet loss.
Gaming is a huge target for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Which is why we’re constantly looking at how we can advance our DDoS solution to protect customers against the threat.
With data centers located in key locations around the world, we can ensure consistent low latency wherever your players are. And the best bit? We don’t lock you into long-term contracts. Our month-to-month contracts mean you can easily scale up or down with demand.
Find out more about our dedicated game servers, from gamers.
“The servers.com team is consistently open and transparent with us from every aspect of its business, including network, hardware, and support. This completely open working relationship allows us to grow and scale the business without worrying about hardware or networking.”
“Customer support is one of the most important aspects of game server hosting and we have made it our mission to give customers the best support, whether they are new to server hosting or an experienced admin. servers.com shares this goal of putting the customer first, making working together second nature.”
“servers.com offers a unique combination of infrastructure quality, service and price. We are happy with the network quality, uptime, and instant technical support when we need it.”
“Gaming customers that use high-performance bare-metal servers need to be able to scale rapidly in all geographies where they’re publishing their games. With servers.com, it’s almost never an issue because it keeps large pools of available servers to scale in a few hours. And if the game isn’t performing as expected, we can scale down quickly with minimal cost.”
“servers.com support is 1000x better than anyone else. It’s reassuring that I can post a message in Discord and get a response from a human who understands me and my needs.”
Our specialist team is ready to help
In a nutshell, everything. Included as standard when you rent a server for gaming is:
Power
Cooling
The server(s)
Provisioning
OS installation
Up to 20TB of egress bandwidth (depending on location)
Free ingress
Free use of our Global Private Network
Partnerships with national and international ISPs on a low latency network
Health checks
24/7 enterprise-level support from engineers and a dedicated account management team of gaming specialists, including solution architects
Our billing is very flexible, so we can adjust our process to make it work for our customers’ specific needs. Generally, on the first of every month an invoice is sent out to customers via email to the billing and primary contacts assigned in the customer portal. This invoice outlines in advance what you are expected to spend that coming month. You can pay by either card or bank transfer and other payment options are available on approval. You can find more details about how our billing process works in our dedicated billing section.
Yes, we provide FWaaS. It’s a simple out-of-the-box product that can be easily integrated into your servers via our customer portal.
We’ve designed our network to allow protection against the most common amplification DDoS attacks, under typical scenarios. DDoS protection of this sort can be set up for free in all our locations. Our team are trained to understand your DDoS requirements and will work with you to propose solutions on top of our standard protection if required.
Absolutely, as one of the largest bare metal hosting providers in gaming, we support a vast number of game launches a year and even more DLC releases. We work with developers and publishers, helping them scale quickly and prioritise their infrastructure investments to deliver the best gaming experience with dedicated gaming servers. We also underpin most of the industry’s managed hosting providers and private game server hosting companies with hundreds of dedicated game servers.
You can quickly spin servers up or down in as little as 10 minutes via our API, Terraform provider or portal. When you become a customer, you will be assigned a dedicated account team of gaming specialists who will work with you to create a scaling plan that aligns with the needs of your game launch and any future updates.
We can provision additional dedicated game servers in as little as 10 minutes. Having said that, for your video game launch we advise consulting with your account management team in advance of launch to ensure that you have your server environment set up and ready to go, with room for scaling if needed.
There are a few ways we ensure low latency for our customers:
We have 20 data centers around the world, covering a wide geographical spread. We hand select our data center locations around the globe to ensure that we can offer our customers a breadth of options to cover key markets. We are constantly expanding and opening new data centers based on customer requirements. If we don’t currently have a data center in a location you would like to be in, speak to our team.
We have built our own in-house sophisticated BGP routing technology to find the best and fastest route through networks from your game servers to your players.
We are constantly investing in upgrading our networking equipment.
We have developed relationships with a blend of ISP providers – tier 1,2 and 3 – to deliver the fastest networking routes internationally and nationally for each region to reduce latency.
It’s best to test your game server once you’ve got a playable version of the game and a server executable. You can then continue to test as your game develops all the way up to the final edition. This enables you to really understand how much resource one game session is likely to need and therefore how many virtual cores, disk and RAM is required for the dedicated game server to support that resource. With this information you can then work with our team to develop the server configuration that will help your game run as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Adjustments to this configuration are likely to be made as testing continues to find the optimum server for your game.
Through our partnerships with B2B hosting providers and directly with game studios of various sizes we support all types of games – typically multiplayer – which range from large FPSs and MMOs to one vs one sports games and sandbox games.
Yes, there are two ways you can do it. You can either do it yourself by renting the dedicated game server from us and setting up your own K8s cluster. You then operate the game server and clusters while we take care of the hardware and networking. Or you can use our managed Kubernetes service, which has been proven and tested by customers such as Makea Games, who were able to launch their debut game Supermoves with a small technical team.
Yes, we can work with you on your communication platform of choice, whether that is Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, or another platform. Just let us know your preference.
There are three ways that you can order a gaming server or servers from us:
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