What to look for when hosting a static site? (game)

Hi, I'm developing a game that weights about 120 Mb.

Let's say I expect to have more or less 2000 concurrent users per hour, with 4 peak hours per day where there are about 4000players.
Game doesn't interact with a database or anything in the likes, pretty much will just serve files.
Game assets are contained in a single file (which takes the majority of space), so far I can see 14 web requests + some extra calls (to youtube).

Have read good comments / tests for openlitespeed, so most likely will use it or ngingx as server.

a) What specs for vps do I have to check for?
b) What would you advice to run on synthetic tests - maybe add an audio file to simulate filesize?

Thanks.

Hello franmx,

Thank you so much for your question.

Congrats on your game that sounds awesome!

The server specs depend on your game/website resource usage. However based on what you have said it does not seem to require much at all and that is a very good thing. So I would suggest the following for you:

Option 1
VPS Server:
2 Core
2GB RAM
At least 5-10GB of storage
SSD based drives
Control Panel (If you want one)

Option 2
Web Hosting Plan:
Litespeed Enabled
Anti DDOS
At least 5-10GB of storage
cPanel Control Panel

We can help you out with that if you would like to we can even give you a month free of web hosting to test it out. We have enabled the following technology: https://fusionarchosting.com/home/technologies/ for web hosting plans and I believe it will be perfect for you.

I would highly suggest you start with a web hosting plan as it would be cheaper for you and a great way to test out your website/game resource needs.

Please let me know if you are interested in a free trial and also weather you would want a VPS or a web hosting plan to test things out. If you want you can also contact us at: [email protected]

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thanks!

Mario Cano | Fusion Arc Hosting

Linux Systems Administrator

franmx said:

Let's say I expect to have more or less 2000 concurrent users per hour, with 4 peak hours per day where there are about 4000players.

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I would recommend a strong VPS or a dedicated server to handle large requests from number of users you are expecting...
Try to check some here https://forumweb.hosting/marketplace/categories/dedicated-hosting-offers.4/
Hope it helped.

If you are really going to have this many concurrent users, you might start with 4 or 8 GB of RAM and 2 or 4 Cores. Space won't be an issue because you'll get enough space with these specifications from any host but you should go for SSD. Have a control panel and i would suggest cPanel, it will help you manage and optimize everything with ease. You don't need a dedicated server at all.
If you need a server or someone to manage it, you can drop me a line.