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Sunny future with less cloud

Host your game on dedicated game servers and only scale your player influx into cloud to optimize resource usage and ensure a brighter financial outlook. With superior performance in both hardware and network, and with fully agnostic, purpose-built gaming solutions, we help you break free from vendor lock-in and eye-watering cloud costs.

  • Up to 70% lower infrastructure bill
  • Up to 50% latency reduction
  • No hidden costs or complex billing
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Why host your game on our dedicated servers?

While cloud providers might seem appealing initially, many game studios discover with growing CCU, public clouds’ bandwidth costs, unoptimized scaling mechanisms, and general-purpose solutions drain budgets, disrupt game performance, and shorten studios’ runways due to vendor lock-in practices. Complex pay-as-you-go billing models for microservices and hidden costs further complicate matters, adding unexpected expenses to cloud bills. Hosting on dedicated servers, also known as bare metal servers, provides consistent performance, more efficient resource use without virtualization overhead, and a more cost-efficient solution in the long run.

Bandwidth cost comparison in Europe & North America

*The cost comparison is excluding the free initial bandwidth bundles

Bandwidth pricing that supports your title's growth

Imagine a world where your bandwidth costs are slashed to a tenth of what what you’d typically spend with the 3 most popular cloud providers. Choosing i3D.net means more than just saving money—it’s an investment in the future of your game. Every dollar saved on bandwidth can be redirected towards what truly matters, making your game shine.

  • Competitive bandwidth pricing
  • No charges for egress traffic
  • No hidden costs
  • Up to 20TB free initial bandwidth bundle
  • Premium network by default - with no extra costs

Increased hosting performance and capacity

i3D.net’s, DDoS-protected dedicated game servers, with 99.9999% uptime,  offer significantly higher performance and capacity, allowing you to allocate more players to a single server, compared to cloud. Dedicated servers ensure your resources are fully optimized and dedicated to your game’s needs, resulting in faster load times, reduced latency, and a smoother player experience.

  • Optimized core-to-RAM ratios for optimal performance
  • Competitive price-performance ratio
  • Fully automated and configurable deployment system
  • Available in 60+ locations
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Cloud flexibility on dedicated servers

With our smart, purpose-built scaling solutions you’ll have the cloud flexibility on dedicated game servers, without having to make long-term commitments. By hosting your core player base on dedicated servers, you significantly reduce costs and boost performance while having the option to easily scale your player influx into major public clouds (including AWS, GCP, Azure and Tencent) or alternatively into our Flex Metal, an hourly-based dedicated game server, with a pay-as-you-go billing model.

  • Worry-free resource management: No under/over provisioning
  • Self-healing & fail-proof scaling mechanisms
  • Guaranteed hosting capacity
  • Vendor agnostic: Connect to your exiting cloud accounts or leverage our discounted public cloud options

Seamless third-party integrations

To simplify your integration process, i3D.net partnered up with different providers, ensuring you have the flexibility to make choices that align with your specific needs while minimizing the complexity of implementation. Let us handle the technical details so you can focus on delivering exceptional games.

Network dedicated for gaming and real-time interactions

We run our own global internet backbone (AS49544) specifically designed for ultra-low latency data transfer for gaming and real-time interactions. With 9000+ direct peering relations and 100+ IXP connections, we have the 2nd best connected network in the world, known for its outstanding performance, minimal latency, unwavering reliability, and keeping traffic as local as possible. With minimal latency to ISPs, our backbone is the best choice for multiplayer games and demanding matchmaking while outperforming major cloud providers. 

  • World's best gaming network
  • < 30 ms average global latency
  • 26+ Tbps network dedicated for real-time data transfer
  • Low latency even in emerging markets like LATAM and the Middle East

Start your journey towards a sunny future with less cloud

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Get a first hand-experience of our unbeatable low-latency connectivity and premium hardware by requesting a free test server - no strings attached.

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Fully host your game on dedicated servers and choose to scale into Flex Metal or bring your own scaling method.

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Host your game on hybrid infrastructure

Unlock the best of both worlds using hybrid infrastructure! Host your base CCU on dedicated servers and only scale the player influx into cloud.

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Why game studios and publishers choose i3D.net over cloud?

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“Memory is about half as impacted, CPU performance is up by 60% and suddenly the amount of capacity we can allocate to a single instance from i3D.net is up by 50% compared to our projections. We have nearly doubled the capacity than we thought we were getting when we signed the contract, with no additional costs.”

James Reynolds, Head of Platform at Alta

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“By transitioning from a bursting cloud model to i3D.net’s bare metal servers, we’ve seen substantial improvements in latency with reductions between 30-50ms. Their optimized infrastructure takes advantage of bare metal’s predictable performance to provide a superior player experience with lower and more consistent latency.”

Greg Tinney, Principal Software Engineer, Prophecy Games

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Using the Game Hosting Platform, the time it took for Psyonix to patch all instances reduced from 1.5 hours to as little as 30 minutes with no impact on the gameplay. “i3D.net was really helpful, especially in the Middle East and South America.”

Brian Jesse, Server Engineer at Psyonix

What you can expect from hosting your game with i3D.net

Full control over the entire infrastructure 

Unlike your average provider, i3D.net owns and operates the entire IT infrastructure stack, from data centers, network operations, and computing resources, resulting in:

  • Quicker issue detection & mitigation
  • Implementing high-quality standards across all infrastructure layers
  • Eliminating the need for managing multiple providers

Gaming expertise 

Our deep-rooted expertise from 20+ years of experience in the gaming industry, drives us to deliver exceptional experiences to players worldwide. Our dedication to gaming is evident in everything we do:

  • Products co-developed with game studios
  • Purpose-built solutions with minimal latency impact
  • Actively reducing latency for players, even in emerging gaming markets

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We safeguard a flawless player experience on our customers’ launch day! Our experts collaborate with our customers, on request, to fine-tune every aspect of their game hosting; from network and security to compute resources.

  • On-site experts for instant issue resolution
  • Resource capacity planning
  • Hosting infrastructure troubleshooting
  • Game performance tracking and reporting

24/7 SLA & support with direct access to experts

Receive personalized advice on hosting, scaling strategies, network setup, hardware and even debugging. With your exclusive Slack channel, you can directly access our support team at any time with a direct line to:

  • CTO to address technical considerations
  • VP of network to spar on network related topics
  • VP of engineering to discuss network automation or provisioning tools
  • Product teams for integrations or new software features

Get in touch with our game hosting experts

Interested in learning more about i3D.net’s game hosting capabilities, our bespoke solutions, or how we can drive your game’s success? Reach out to our experts.

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Frequently asked questions

i3D.net supports majority of operating systems including:

  • Linux (including: Steam, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS)
  • Windows
  • Custom OS
  • Basic-tier award-winning DDoS protection with minimal latency impact
  • Up to 20TB free initial bandwidth bundle
  • 2 X IPV4 address

To maintain the performance superiority of bare metal servers and provide the flexibility of the cloud – without incurring the hefty cloud costs – to our customers, i3D.net has combined the two for a best of breed solution – Flex Metal. Flex Metal is based on the same bare metal server you are used to, except it’s provisioned within minutes and does not require a monthly commitment, making it a perfect alternative for cloud scaling.

Pricing per region (EUR/GB*):

  • Europe: € 0.00187
  • North America: € 0.0026
  • Latin America: € 0.00951
  • Asia-Pacific: € 0.01052

Yes, i3D.net provides high-performance GPU servers designed to meet various needs. For cloud gaming and other demanding applications, i3D.net deploys NVIDIA A10 GPUs in optimized setups. If you’re looking for build servers, i3D.net also offers powerful configurations featuring NVIDIA RTX series GPUs, ensuring robust performance across the board.

Contact our sales team to get an offer tailored to your needs. We’ll make sure to provide you with the right GPU card in combination with a bare metal server that satisfies your specific requirements.

i3D.net’s Global Low-latency Anti-DDoS (GLAD) is a granular, always-on, and highly customizable solution, purpose-built for online multiplayer games to block attacks, preventing faulty traffic from reaching game servers. GLAD excels with TCP and UDP traffic streams and maintains low latency by avoiding the use of scrubbing centers that add unnecessary delays. Its heavy customization allows users to create game-specific DDoS protection profiles, while the Warden feature—a custom software within GLAD—offloads traffic filtering from the OS by directly receiving traffic through the Network Interface Card (NIC) and filtering it using dynamic customer-provided lists, including deep packet inspection. The fail-open system and Active-Active setups ensure continuous and scalable protection.

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