What makes our game server orchestrator shine
The orchestrator powered by innovation and game expertise
i3D.net’s game server orchestrator is a symbol of innovation, combining high-performance bare metal server infrastructure with flexible multi-cloud capacity, guaranteeing compute capacity to game studios and accommodating any number of players. It does all of this while providing the necessary flexibility to game studios, without limiting their choice of compute, game online infrastructure or providers.
On one hand, a cloud-only hosting strategy is one of the most popular strategies out there, where the big public cloud providers lure game studios in with free credits, which in the long run, is not the most cost-effective solution. Cloud costs tend to quickly ramp up the deeper you integrate your game into their systems.
This is why i3D.net combines its bare metal server infrastructure with cloud capacity. Bare metal servers cater to consistent player levels, and cloud providers can be used to manage a high player influx.
Orchestrator’s flexibility and smart resource management
The orchestrator is agnostic in its choice of cloud provider — you decide what to use, whether it’s AWS, GCP, Azure or Tencent. Through this, i3D.net’s game server orchestrator optimizes resource usage and ultimately lowers the cost per CCU for game studios, while maintaining all the necessary flexibility for game studios in terms of hardware, network and game online services.
Alongside optimized resource usage, not allowing you to over-commit or under-commit on compute resources, the orchestrater also self-heals any system faults. It does this by continuously carrying out health checks all around the world, even for third-party cloud resources, substituting ill-performing resources with performant compute, guaranteeing compute availability. This keeps your game online and your community happy.
What is more, it does not limit you when it comes to the choice of game engine, platform or even the game itself. i3D.net ensures you have all the flexibility you need to make great games without limiting your used technology in any way.
Your orchestrator, your rules: Craft the perfect strategy
Furthermore, i3D.net’s game server orchestrator is fully customizable, that is, it does exactly what you want it to do. You start with uploading your game build into i3D.net’s proprietary Content Delivery Network (CDN), which then swiftly and automatically distributes it throughout all the selected Points of Presence — i3D.net has over 60 of them! After uploading your game build and/or utilities, you can create your game server fleets and define your hosting strategy by combining i3D.net’s compute resources with multiple public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure and Tencent). You can choose one, or a mixture of them, as per your needs and desires. This selection allows game studios to determine the scaling strategy themselves, making sure there is never a shortage of resources, all while keeping your game online.
Once you have selected your scaling preferences, you can then create a deployment profile and select the buffer values for the system to maintain a safe number of game instances available for hosting your players. You can set the orchestrator to automatically allocate game instances when the player numbers surge at any time, resulting in no queueing times for your players when joining online game sessions. These buffer values will also allow you to automatically downscale and terminate cloud virtual machines once they are not required anymore, letting you optimize your costs while putting your player’s experience at the forefront.
Very few of the benefits provided by i3D.net’s game server orchestrator are matched by their competition, making it the provider of choice for game studios looking for an easy way out of the dark forest of the game hosting world.
Strategies for success: Leverage our two-decade expertise
As mentioned before, managing all of this generally requires in-depth knowledge in game hosting, but you shouldn’t worry about it; i3D.net has over 20+ years of experience and a proven track record in the gaming industry. The company has helped countless game studios launch their games, manage their online infrastructure after launch, and provides personalized advice on any hosting decisions that you face.
