Android Question How to host your app/game?

[Rams007]

What do you use to host your app, AWS?

Say you had a popular game with 1M+ downloads that obviously required data to be constantly downloaded, what web or cloud services would you need to host this and roughly how much does it cost. I see AWS have a PAYG option that I assume is auto scalable?

 

[Pendrush]

You can use AWS but https://www.hetzner.com/cloud is at least 3 time cheaper and you have 20TB/month of bandwidth per VPS/Cloud server.

Edit:
I have my own server (not VPS) with web site and support for my app with same name.
With about 5.5M monthly users, bandwidth is below 1TB/month. CPU is Intel 6600 with 32GB memory, database is MariaDB. CPU don't go over 10%.
App constantly use server for various operation. All communication between app and server are in JSON format.

 

[Rams007]

You can use AWS but https://www.hetzner.com/cloud is at least 3 time cheaper and you have 20TB/month of bandwidth per VPS/Cloud server.

Are you saying that you could host a major game like pubg for very little assumed it would costs tens of thousands of dollars per year?

 

[Alexander Stolte]

but https://www.hetzner.com/cloud is at least 3 time cheaper and you have 20TB/month of bandwidth per VPS/Cloud server.

Thank you for the tip!!!

 

[Pendrush]

Are you saying that you could host a major game like pubg for very little assumed it would costs tens of thousands of dollars per year?

At the moment I'm not even close to the server limits. Depends a lot on what data and how much is transferred from the server to the application and back.
When limit is reached load balancing is a good option, or just change number of cloud CPU if CPU start to bottleneck.
The main question here is do you need to transfer large amount of data from server to app, or you need fast CPU for same database writing and reading.
Also slow VPS (2 core CPU) can be really fast if you put caching server (Nginx for example) in front.