Timeline for Is it possible to rent a server for my own game?
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| Jun 3, 2013 at 2:07 | comment | added | Mark Rushakoff | @stephelton Absolutely! You can do 2.7 cents per hour with a 3-year reserved small instance. | |
| Jun 3, 2013 at 1:03 | comment | added | bobobobo | @TimHolt Please read Migrating off GAE. The key points are: 1) It is very high latency 2) Those "free" usage per day bars fill up very fast (and cost gets astronomical very fast) when you have any number of users | |
| May 31, 2013 at 19:52 | comment | added | notlesh | You can do a lot better than 6 cents per hour with AWS! | |
| May 31, 2013 at 17:10 | comment | added | Tim Holt | Also consider Google App Engine if you can write all your back-end systems as web services. You can use it for free, and only start paying if your usage goes over certain limits. That means you can develop at no cost, do testing at no cost, and really only need to start paying if your game is successful enough to start generating more traffic. | |
| May 31, 2013 at 14:57 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 31, 2013 at 14:56 | comment | added | bobobobo | Yes, yes, use Amazon. They are free for the 1st year you sign up (but the clock starts ticking the moment you sign up for the AWS account, not the moment you kick on your first server (which is what I had thought)). | |
| May 31, 2013 at 14:41 | history | answered | Mark Rushakoff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |