I spend $15-20/mo+ to run servers I barely race on, so I built a pay-per-hour alternative
Disclosure: I'm the dev, it's my project, and it's a paid service. I want people to try it free and give me feedback.
I'm thankful we have so many people putting in time, money, and effort to provide races on ACC. Kunos gave us the dedicated server so we could. But, an in-game feature to launch multiplayer servers would have given people with zero technical expertise access to create more leagues, communities, endurance events, and populated pubbies than we already enjoy.
I can't put it in-game, but I'm a software engineer, so I decided to build it on the web.
Racetrim launched one year ago, with monthly ACC rentals at the cost to run them. It was mostly used to configure and launch my own "NOT SPA OR MONZA! TRY IT!" servers. It was a start, not excellent, but a discord grew up around it anyway, and now we've run over 250,000 laps in pubbies and weekly events.
The problem: on the backend, I pay to run servers 24/7, and so do my customers, but the servers go unused 90% of the time, or more. So, I rebuilt racetrim to start and stop servers whenever you want, and they're billed $0.05/hr only when they are on.
Honest math: It's $36/mo to run a server 24/7 now. If that's what you need, go rent from GPORTAL for $28.90/mo. But, if you want to run a server for 20hrs it's $1, and you're currently paying for 700 hours no one is racing.
I'm not trying to get rich on this, my goals are to break even on the cost to run it and create something that is better and less expensive for ACC leagues and players than anything else that exists.
- Dedicated Windows cloud servers, launched in <30 seconds
- Available on 5 continents, move them at-will.
- No slot or connection limits.
- Managed in the browser, no install or JSON files.
- Lap data & results stored, analyzed, reviewable, and exportable.
Run races on your own terms, whether they're organized events or pub lobbies with friends. When you sign up there's 10 hours FREE to try. Find out more about it, here.
What's one thing that would make you try running a Racetrim server?
