Source: https://gameye.com/glossary/resource-profile/

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title: "Resource profile | Gameye"
description: "A resource profile will figure out how many resources your game will take, and in turn, how much compute power a server needs to reserve to run your game."
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# Resource profile

A resource profile will figure out how many resources your game will take, and in turn, how much compute power a server needs to reserve to run your game.

Once your game is profiled, the server will use this to calculate what is required by its pre-loading algorithm.

## A resource profile is your vCPU × RAM memory

Resource profile focuses mainly VCPU and the memory required for the game server to run. Better optimised your game, the cheaper the price of running your servers.

Not sure how many vCPUs your server needs? Enter player count, tick rate and game type to get a vCPU and RAM estimate.

[Estimate your server size →](https://gameye.com/server-sizing/)

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## Related terms

- ### Containers

A container is a packaged, portable software unit. For game servers, it’s your entire server build — easy to deploy, replicate, and roll back. [Read more](https://gameye.com/glossary/containers/)
- ### 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. [Read more](https://gameye.com/glossary/cloud-servers/)
- ### 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. [Read more](https://gameye.com/glossary/bare-metal-servers/)
- ### 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. [Read more](https://gameye.com/glossary/flex-metal-servers/)