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Server specs

Every golly.gg game server runs on hardware we rent in professional European data centres, not someone's home PC. Here's what each machine has and what's on it.

About the ping numbers

They're typical round trips from big US data centres (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles) to each machine. Your own connection adds a little on top, usually 5 to 20 ms, more on Wi-Fi. Traffic to the US crosses the Atlantic on deep-sea fibre cables like the ones listed on each machine; which cable a packet takes on a given day is up to the networks in between, so treat the list as the main routes rather than a guarantee. For players in the UK and Europe, expect roughly 5 to 40 ms.

On every machine

  • Network-level DDoS protection and unmetered traffic, on a provider backbone with its own links across Europe and the Atlantic.
  • Each game server has its own CPU and memory limits, so one busy server can't starve its neighbours.
  • Live load for each server is on its page, and uptime is on the status page.

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