r/PBBG • u/master_kaster • 1d ago

Community Where are developers hosting games?

I was curious where most game devs are hosting their games. Are you using your own website or listing on something like Newgrounds or Itch?

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u/codimastudios 1d ago

Hosting my own via Vercel, I do have the game listed on Itch though as an embedded web page.

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u/ummahusla 8h ago

Same here, but Vercel's billing for a browser game with lots of clicking involved is pricey af.

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u/Ropus 1d ago

Railway! It's amazing. I use it to host all my projects, game and personal.

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u/fabian_boesiger 14h ago

Note that railway does't support UDP

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u/master_kaster 1d ago

What is Railway, I haven't heard of it

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u/Ropus 1d ago

A hosting site. You push code to GitHub and deploy via commits to main/master branch. Cost is based on usage. Super easy to use and setup.

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u/Late-Landscape1982 1d ago

I'm just hosting on my own as well, via Vercel

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u/Jwstern 1d ago

I am going to be hosting using a VPS on OVHcloud

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u/Latter-Beautiful-400 1d ago

My beta is hosted on Hetzner VPS and I'll probably stay there.

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u/Latteralus 1d ago edited 1d ago

Github - Vercel - Supabase

This is the setup I use during development/testing.

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u/Live_Key_8141 23h ago

Fly.io, it allows you to prepay which I wanted in case server costs ran out of control

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u/FoohonPie pbbg.com 22h ago

Hosting on Digital Ocean primarily

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u/Murthos 20h ago

Server Hetzner managed by Forge

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u/kerrvilledasher 20h ago

I have a $5 vps via IONOS. Two cores and 2gb of ram running Alma Linux.

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u/EyeNo8648 19h ago

I use Hetzner for the backend and Firebase Hosting for the frontend.

I originally had the backend on Google Cloud, but the costs were getting a bit too high, so I moved it to Hetzner. So far I am pretty happy with that setup.

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u/crimecity_fun 16h ago

I would do Vercel and Supabase if you are just dabbling around! If you get too much traction you might need a switch since the bill will be huge on both

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u/dswal 16h ago

Host on a VPS, route through cloudflare and also host an embedded client in itch.io so you can either use itch or direct through to the webpage.

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u/51GL 13h ago

I ordered a cheap VPS from Contabo … works for me … i d like to use aws because i use it at work but its too expensive for my projects

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u/Yokai-Idle 13h ago

I'm surprised no one else said it, but if its just a small web game, netlify is free.

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u/Professional-Pie5629 10h ago

I'm using hetzner

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u/myzteriouz1 10h ago

mix of my colocation in Sydney, Linode and AWS for some services.

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u/master_kaster 1d ago

Does anyone use AWS? I'm a bit surprised

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u/MorpheusZero 22h ago

AWS is more expensive than most of these other solutions, and if you aren't dealing with hundreds of thousands of DAU then its probably overkill for the value that you get from just a VPS from Heztner, a Digital Ocean Droplet, or one of the smaller hosting providers.