Last 3 days have been quite a rollercoaster ride.

What used to be “10 players online” is quickly becoming 100+. The traffic is growing way faster than I originally anticipated.

Then the game server instances started shutting down.

I couldn’t find out what was causing the issue because I wasn’t getting any error messages in the log. I was losing sleep over it. I spent hours looking for ways to log the crash. When the root of the problem was obvious: My server just wasn’t ready for this kind of traffic.

My 8 core CPU VM was the running out of its resources.

So the had to improve the load distribution

And I woke up and saw all the servers were still up and running. Prior to this, the maximum uptime for a server was about 2 hours until it crashed.

Over last 3 days, I think I slept about 3 hours on average.

Gyyaaahhhhhh!!