Simple and scalable game server hosting
DigitalOcean provides cost-effective, scalable game server hosting solutions so you can build your game quickly and scale up as your game and business grow. DigitalOcean’s simple and intuitive tools, low bandwidth pricing, and robust community enable you to focus on growth while we focus on infrastructure.
How DigitalOcean can help your game reach new heights
Simple game server hosting built for lean teams
DigitalOcean’s simple UI, CLI, and API enable small teams to get started quickly without the need to learn and manage complex infrastructure tools.
Predictable, low pricing to help you scale
Our transparent pricing model, industry-leading price to performance ratio, and low bandwidth pricing enables you to scale your network-intensive game without worrying about unexpected costs.
Robust product offerings to support your growth
DigitalOcean includes all the cloud products game builders need, from Premium CPU-Optimized virtual machines that give your game fast and consistent performance, to Load Balancers, Virtual Private Clouds, and managed Kubernetes.
Resources to remove development roadblocks
Our community tutorials, documentation, and personal customer support mean you’re supported throughout the testing, development, and scaling of your game.
Tools to help you build and scale your game
DigitalOcean includes all the cloud products game builders need, from Premium CPU-Optimized virtual machines that give your game fast and consistent performance, to load balancers, virtual private clouds, managed Kafka, and managed Kubernetes. Build your game from the ground up using our highly customizable Droplet virtual machines, or get a fully managed infrastructure solutions with App Platform, our Platform as a Service offering.
Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets
Virtual machines with high network throughput and powerful performance.
Game builders finding success on DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean has supported game builders at all stages of their growth, from founders just starting out to rapidly scaling businesses serving thousands of concurrent users.
We've been trying out new Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets for the last several weeks and we're impressed with the performance gains. So far this is the best DigitalOcean solution we can recommend for high CPU load scenarios and for high network throughput.
Igor Boyko
CTO, Chill Gaming
The fact that it’s so easy to configure, administrate and scale with DigitalOcean is something which I love. I’ve worked with Kubernetes before, hands-on, self-hosted, but the DigitalOcean integration and provision of Kubernetes has been the most seamless that I’ve experienced so far.
James Hooker
CTO, Hack the Box
Our game would not have been viable without DigitalOcean’s low pricing - our costs would have been 8x higher. It would be much harder for our game to make sense financially and maybe would have to shut it down.
Diego Rocha
Software Engineer Manager, PlayKids
Resources for building a successful game
DigitalOcean’s technical tutorials, product documentation, and library of resources can answer common questions about building and scaling your game.
FAQs
What game server hosting is right for me?
DigitalOcean offers a variety of solutions for building and scaling your game. Droplets are our flexible, scalable virtual machines. They support Linux applications and are fully customizable to your needs. Droplets start at just $4 and can be scaled vertically by adding resources to your Droplet, or horizontally by deploying multiple Droplets in one data center or across our 14 global data centers. You can add storage and other features to complement your Droplets. App Platform is our fully managed Platform as a Service offering, which allows you to easily spin up a static website or application without having to manage the infrastructure yourself. This solution is ideal for those who want the benefits of DigitalOcean without maintaining their own infrastructure. DigitalOcean also offers Managed Kubernetes for containerization solutions and Managed Databases including MongoDB and MySQL.
How much does your game server hosting cost?
DigitalOcean’s pricing is transparent and predictable, and we offer some of the lowest bandwidth pricing in the industry. You can get started with a Basic Droplet for just $4 a month, and be confident that your pricing will stay predictable even as you scale with flat pricing across data centers. DigitalOcean’s App Platform provides you with hosting for 3 static sites for free, and our Basic plan starts at $5 a month. View our full pricing chart here.
What are 1-click Marketplace apps?
The DigitalOcean Marketplace allows you to build your websites faster with preconfigured, 1-Click Apps for popular content management systems including Wordpress, Plesk, CyberPanel, Ghost, developer tools such as Docker and Dokku, and databases such a MongoDB and MySQL. These 1-Click Apps are preconfigured environments with all the prerequisites you need to get started, saving you time on your website hosting.
What support do you offer?
DigitalOcean offers every customer free support through our ticketing system - you’ll get a response from a member of our Customer Support Team who can help you with any questions for no extra charge. In addition, DigitalOcean provides a vast array of documentation and tutorials on how to get started with our products, programming languages, and more.
Talk to an expert
Our team of solutions experts can help you get started with migration plans and provide advice on how to scale your game.
