FluxPlay: Get Your Head in the Game
Enhance your gaming experience with FluxPlay, a game-hosting service built on FluxCloud. Our decentralized cloud infrastructure allows us to offer players customization in server configurations and redundancy for maximized uptime.
Let’s get into it!
Server Hosting
Video game publishers typically host their own centralized servers, where players connect to an official game server to play. This prohibits customization for players wanting different memory and storage setups than those provided in centralized servers.
Additionally, players can do nothing if the game server goes down or suffers latency until the game’s development team fixes it.
These factors have led to player-hosted servers that offer control over gameplay where players can customize game settings, mods, and playable environments.
Types of Player-based Server-Hosting
- Peer-to-Peer/Local Hosting: Players host their servers locally from their PC or console, and the game provides the server software.
- Dedicated Game Server Hosting: Players rent dedicated servers hosted by third parties and cloud providers who manage uptime and hardware. Dedicated server hosting enables player control of in-game settings and is ideal for large multiplayer ecosystems.
Local and Dedicated Hosting Pitfalls
Local hosting offers complete customization for players, but the hardware used is not premium and lacks the computational power for guaranteed uptime, resulting in poor gameplay performance.
Furthermore, while dedicated server hosting features premium hardware for better gameplay optimization and offers some customization for players via control over in-game settings, servers hosted by a third party are still centralized and are exposed to single points of failure.
The Difference with FluxPlay
The server specs FluxPlay rents for game hosting are decentralized, distributed globally, and made up of top-notch hardware. Ensuring full server customization and data integrity for players, lightning-fast connections from locations worldwide, low latency gameplay, and constant server uptime.
FluxPlay currently hosts servers for the following game titles:
How It Works
FluxPlay focuses on ease of use. It is straightforward for players to access cheap, rentable, geolocated servers with excellent specifications; dedicated hosting is one click away.
FluxPlay dedicated server hosting prices and specs per title are as follows:
When purchasing a server through FluxPlay, players are given three instances: a primary instance—the virtual server players actively use for gameplay—and two standby instances for redundancy, which remain in sync with the primary but inactive unless needed.
FluxPlay utilizes manual failover, so if a primary instance goes down or begins to experience lag, you have nothing to worry about. We switch the hosting environment to a standby instance for you, ensuring uninterrupted gameplay.
When this occurs, email communications with updated server connections are sent automatically to players hosting the virtual servers, letting them know about the changes made.
Conclusion
Whether you are a new player or a pro, FluxPlay can take your gameplay to the next level by ensuring low ping for fast responsiveness and smooth gameplay, server redundancy and uptime, and control over your data for complete customization.
As we remain “InFlux,” new games will be added, so follow us on X and check out our blog for the latest updates!
