Scalability Leads to Success for Creators

Scaling Up RAM for Demand – Shockbyte James Zinn

One of the most significant issues content creators face is unprecedented growth, which can result in feeling like they're up a river without a paddle. When establishing a community, creators often require complete flexibility wherever possible, allowing expansion and customization at a moment’s notice to accommodate changing trends, political atmospheres, and explosive growth. As discussed in a previous game-server entrepreneurs post, a host may need to quickly shift their niche to accommodate their community, requiring large-scale changes to RAM, player slots, and other unforeseen surprises.

Entrepreneurs, content creators, and server owners like you deserve a reliable server host who will accommodate these changes at a moment’s notice.

Requiring Scalability is Unexpected

Most content creators, especially newbies, enter the sector without expectations of success or requirements to expand at alarming rates. Growth is steady but slow, even if the dream is an explosive start. However, not all creators and server hosts achieve this. The optimistic thought to hold onto is that exposure explosions do happen to almost every creator, but it’s impossible to predict the timing.

When it happens, creators who don’t adapt accordingly can lose traction. And fans who want to join their servers, participate in their community, and play their games won’t be able to if the servers aren’t prepared for the influx. For example, NurseVO's, one of Shockbyte’s partnered content creators, the channel took off in 2021, growing from 8,000 subscribers to 200,000 in just a few months. They quickly reached out to Shockbyte to accommodate this growth, expand the community, and provide the flexibility to continually expand the communal servers, which have grown to 2+ times and counting.

Leave the RAM to Server Hosts

Modern games, software, and multitasking consume RAM on casual PCs like no tomorrow, leaving the everyday gamer with a laggy experience and a frozen computer. You’ll never know you have a problem that bad until you’ve experienced it at its worst. Your entire setup begins to slow down, and your screen becomes a slideshow. Content creators know this better than anyone, with streaming setups, notably VTube Studio, consuming a whopping 8GB of RAM singlehandedly at times.

With all of these challenges for creators, and modern games requiring more and more RAM, players need to rely on strong game server hosting providers such as Shockbyte, backed by monstrous infrastructure companies like OVHcloud, to ensure their gaming experiences are the best. Running AAA titles in the modern era can be hard enough, let alone while streaming, which would be completely impossible if hosting a server simultaneously. Leave it to a reliable game server host and focus on the part you’re passionate about – making content.

The Usage of RAM Flexibility for Casual Gamers

Content creators need to focus on flexibility due to regular, unforeseen circumstances in modern online atmospheres. But what about the casual gamer? A modern gamer with a small friend group may not initially see the immense importance of flexibility since choosing a server host and plan may seem simple. Wrong!

Players tire of the game’s usual mechanics after a while. Adding plugins and mods is a great way to liven up gameplay. But that can take a sizable toll on the RAM required to run the server. And depending on how many mods are involved, it may require an upgrade or more. The ability to scale appropriately with players and mods makes upgrading RAM at will extremely helpful.

Scalable To Optimize Quality

When you initially sign up for a server, you're guessing how much RAM for a Minecraft server is needed. That can be tough to answer because the amount of server RAM needed will fluctuate as your player base crests and falls. While you may get away with having less RAM installed, there will come a point when the gaming experience will suffer, worsening the experience for everyone on the server. That's why it's critical for your server provider to offer scalable resources capable of meeting your needs and the needs of your players.

Hosting a server for friends and family is one thing, but server RAM becomes even more critical when it comes to competitive gaming. This is even more important for creators in the competitive gaming field with games such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Ark: Survival Evolved, and Team Fortress 2. Without appropriate RAM considerations and potentially additional on top, servers could suffer during gameplay and lead to unreliable experiences. Many high-stakes companies in the past have suffered from this lack of consideration. Even Blizzard underestimated the requirements of server hosting for an online network of gamers during a tournament in 2020.

Using Kubernetes to Scale RAM

With OVHcloud's managed Kubernetes service, you can deploy additional resources quickly by increasing the maximum available RAM for each Kubernetes container. Additionally, with a Kubernetes add-on like Agones, which was designed by Google and Ubisoft, you can guarantee your game hosting server is more than up to the task of handling multiplayer games like FPSs and MOBAs. Agones is the industry-wide solution to deploying, scaling, and managing game servers, replacing proprietary game server solutions with an open-source one that's to install.

Scalability and Reliability

There are a handful of other considerations for server hosts to keep in mind when choosing a server host provider over self-hosting. One of the biggest is the control you maintain over your own PC and the ability to disregard the negatives that come with being the dedicated server host. It forces you to guarantee your players 100 percent uptime on your server hosting setup, which can be difficult to maintain, to say the least.

Additionally, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks can lead to an absolute headache for an unprepared user. And players struggling to connect to your server will leave you dealing with customer service issues. Your time as a player and content creator should be spent playing and enjoying the games, not dealing with connection issues. Gamers are far too familiar with horrible online multiplayer gaming, so now is the time to move toward reliable connections with player-owned servers.

Start a Game Server for Your Community

It’s a collective thought for gamers around the globe to start a community server in Minecraft or one of many games with thriving online communities -– and then see it explode and expand at a rapid pace. Ask any of them, and they would most likely agree it is a dream come true. It isn’t a dream out of reach, as new creators gain the spotlight daily, and gaming servers fulfill an especially unique niche in the gaming sphere, drawing players every day.

Anyone can have the tools to establish an incredible community and expand it exponentially. It’s an achievable dream that puts reliable server hosting at your fingertips. Whether you need more Minecraft server RAM or simply faster RAM, trust Shockbyte with all your game server hosting needs and OVHcloud’s powerful infrastructure and server hosting benefits for hosts of all sizes.

Interested in learning more about scaling up server RAM for game hosting? Check out our partner Shockbyte's insightful blog post on server hosting scalability for creators here.

The following was written by Shockbyte PTY. The claims, opinions, and views expressed below are those of Shockbyte and do not necessarily reflect those of OVHcloud US.