Show HN: My startup, a game server SaaS

aardvarkservers.com

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There seems to be quite some money to be made in game hosting as evidenced by https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/arkservers-io .

For how long have you been operating? Are you willing to share your revenue numbers?

https://www.aardvarkservers.com/privacy_policy

> SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY

> Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc.

I was curious how Shopify would let you roll Devise so I took a peak and it looks like it's hosted by NameCheap. ;)

That aside, what's your infra like? How are you allowing a user to manage the 7dtd servers themselves? I haven't played since v15, but last time I checked there wasn't much of an API to use to manage it all.

Hi! Founder here. Thanks for finding a bug in my privacy policy, I'll fix that. :/

I wrote a rails web app running on heroku. For the game server binaries, I spun up a server in a data center and control it using bash scripts that run in background jobs on heroku. I wrote jobs to do various tasks, like update config file, restart server, create initial server.

Let me know if you want more info!

Looks interesting. Loving the fact that the page loads in like 2 seconds... Every single other game SaaS I've used has like super low page load times because they're all using whatever newfangled css library is out there. :P

Super low or super high/slow?

Founder here. I'm obsessed with performance! Users love snappy web apps.

How long was your development time?

About two months, on nights and weekends.

What game?

7 Days To Die, as per the jumbotron.

Ridiculously fun and entertaining game.

Oh, I thought that was just a "catch line". Never heard of that game, will check it out !

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