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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.

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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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In fact, the following “hybrid” model is more optimal than both pure cloud-based and pure rental-based ones

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One relatively recent and certainly welcome addition to the cloud scene, is so-called “bare-metal cloud” servers.

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I’ve seen game companies with hundreds of thousands of dollars lost per hour of unplanned server downtime.

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deterministic debugging is by far the best thing I have seen for production debugging.

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BTW, I don’t want to say that unit testing is pointless

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I am arguing that changing design to enable testing should be avoided.