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Azure/AWS. You still need to use a backend like forge or darkrift right?

Discussion in 'Multiplayer' started by Shablo5, Jul 25, 2019.

  1. Shablo5

    Shablo5

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    The impression i'm under is that, any hosting provider like azure, or some run of the mill VPS provider, you don't download some toolkit and work with that, but instead you build your game using darkrift/forge/photon and then upload that server build to the cloud, yes? A la Minecraft?

    Side question, is there any benefit to using something like AWS/Azure over some run of the mill VPS provider like digitalocean? (other than price)
     
    Shablo5, Jul 25, 2019
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  2. Joe-Censored

    Joe-Censored

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    You're renting a virtual machine. It doesn't know anything about your game server anymore than any other computer with an OS that was just installed 5 minutes ago until you copy over whatever server software you need for your game. Photon often doesn't involve creating your own server builds by the way, or even renting servers if you use their cloud options. The others, yes.

    Reputation or track record maybe? All cloud/VPS providers are rather expensive for what resources you get, unless you just need a super low tier VM and very little bandwidth.
     
    Joe-Censored, Jul 25, 2019
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