How Our Gaming Business Changed After A Surge In Popularity [Update]
This is a follow up story for Indifferent Broccoli. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published almost 4 years ago, check it out here.
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My last update for Indifferent Broccoli in January was about dealing with the "Palpocalypse." The survival, crafting game Palworld became a hit, and Indifferent Broccoli's revenue tripled from new customers looking for Palworld server hosting.
Since then, much of my focus has been the opposite: dealing with the crash after the surge. My business tripled in during the Palworld craze, but has since fallen to about 2x what it was pre-Palworld. Game server hosting is not a traditional SaaS business that can automatically scale infinitely. I have "inventory," which are the bare metal machines I use to host customers' game servers.
During the surge, I had to acquire a mix of short and long-term leases on machines. Short provided flexibility, but long provided less expensive terms. Deciding on that mix was part of the challenge during the surge.
During the crash, actually spinning down the short-term machines brought another set of challenges, from writing the automation scripts to...
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