Hi all.
I’m developing a multiplayer quiz for ios/android/fb.
I have a server (on 000webhost for my test) with php files who interrogate a mysql database.
I have all my questions, answer, history, user information on the database, some pictures on the ftp server (2 to 15ko/pictures) to illustrated every questions.
I interrogate php files with WWW method, wich return all the informations.
I almost finished it and looking for a serious server (000webhost is really crappy).
I chat with an support agent “at some cheap hosting provider” who told me i need a VPS server for this kind of utilisation.
Is that true? It’s working well on 000webhost for now but obviously they’re no real traffic at the moment.
I don’t really know VPS.
If there isn’t any “real” traffic at the moment, how could you or an agent figure out load or need for capacity? A VPS(Virtual Private Server) is generally just a VM or a VM with a limited amount of shared members using it that you have access to… to install what you want(even OS in some cases) and maintain it yourself. But i digress… if you think you’re going to get hundreds of thousands of people playing your game, hitting the database(s) for everything… You’re going to be in a world of hurt pretty quickly and would require infrastructure to support it. You should start small and see where things go, you can always change the server(s) address, just make that a central location that you maintain in case you need the capacity. Using AWS or another cloud service(cloudflare, azure, whatever) that can expand with your need may be necessary if your load is extreme. But who can tell, certainly not the agent you spoke to from that “just like every other cheap” hosting provider.