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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘multiplayer’, page 4:

Services Provided: Co-Location vs Rented/Dedicated Servers vs Cloud

posted April 18, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“in general – I suggest to have your first few servers rented, and think about scaling your load (including using cloud servers) while you’re running your playtesting/public beta/etc.”
Another Quote:	“most likely to rent just the space in the datacenter is going to be more expensive that renting space plus servers-in-that-space. Don’t ask me why it is the case – but it usually is”
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posted April 11, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“In fact, the following “hybrid” model is more optimal than both pure cloud-based and pure rental-based ones”
Another Quote:	“One relatively recent and certainly welcome addition to the cloud scene, is so-called “bare-metal cloud” servers.”
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posted April 4, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“I’ve seen game companies with hundreds of thousands of dollars lost per hour of unplanned server downtime.”
Another Quote:	“deterministic debugging is by far the best thing I have seen for production debugging.”
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posted March 21, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“we realize that for some of the Clients – UDP just doesn’t work because of some weird firewall between Client and Server”
Another Quote:	“there is nothing to block us (so head-of-line blocking doesn’t apply)”
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posted March 14, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Nagle’s algorithm aims to deal with those [CENSORED] developers who’re trying to send data over TCP in really small chunks (like 1 byte each time)”
Another Quote:	“it seems that “proportional rate reduction” (PRR, reportedly used by Linux kernels by default starting from 3.2) performs for gaming purposes a little bit better than the alternatives”
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posted March 7, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“the best we can hope when using a single TCP connection over 5%-loss channel – is having 1.5-second “lag spike” every 5 or so minutes, and a 3-second “lag spike” every 2 hours.”
Another Quote:	“we may already have the-information-we-need on the receiving host – but this information is hidden from us by layers of abstraction on receiving side”
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posted February 28, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Pretty much whatever-we-do, there will be a certain percentage of players which are trying to run an obsolete version of the Client forever-and-ever”
Another Quote:	“It is very important to keep updater transaction-oriented.”
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