Idle machines

Idle machines are servers that are on ‘standby’. They’re ready to use, but waiting.

Don’t confuse this with downtime. An idle machine is working, it’s just not needed yet. Downtime is when the machines crash, and there are sessions waiting.

Idle machines save your money

During quiet times, you may not need all of your servers running. So they’ll go into idle mode. To save on cost and electricity. But it means you can’t start using them quickly as they are already running, rather than having to set up an entirely new server.

Related Terms

Matchmaker

Your matchmaker decides which players to group up for a session. It grabs information from each player and then runs it through a set of rules to figure out the best possible match.

Cloud servers

Your cloud server is a virtual server. It runs in a cloud computing environment, and it's a place where you’ll host your games’ matches and sessions.

Bare-metal servers

A bare-metal server is a physical machine which lives inside a data centre. It’s a place where you’ll host your games matches and sessions.

Flex metal servers

Flex metal servers are basically bare-metal machines, but you can have them available in the same amount of time as cloud servers.