Introducing TimeMachine ⏱
One of the most recent innovations we've shipped is a gameserver backup solution like no other - TimeMachine.
What is TimeMachine?
At OGH cloud, we have custom-built all of our tooling and infrastructure to be the most scalable, optimized, and cost-effective on the market. Period. This allows us unparalleled flexibility and no-limits for innovation when it comes to solving problems, and shipping a better product to our users (you!).
Simply put, it is the future in backup management for your game servers. Gone are the days of scheduling hourly, daily, weekly backups (this is of course still possible through our classic backup solution, which will remain on offer).
With time machine, you can restore your gameserver to a previous state, for any minute in the last 30 days.
Fight griefers - as soon as you've identified the minute that trouble started, you can restore to the minute before, ensuring minimal loss for your happy users
Fix misconfigurations - accidentally applied the wrong config to your server or plugin? Just roll it back
Forget about backups - your server will automatically enrol itself into TimeMachine, from there you can request a restore from any minute in the last 30 days since the start of your server
How is it possible?
As with everything we do at OGH, we use the latest in tech to superpower your gameserver hosting. Our TimeMachine uses a combination of:
Smart-replication to make sure your data is close to where it needs to be
De-duplication to check whether data has already been stored
Clever scheduling to guarantee that your backups are on time - every time
All of this combined with our blazing fast storage technology means that your backups are taken quickly and efficiently, and you can restore them just as easily!
What's next?
Our roadmap for time machine is still a bit unclear at the moment - since we think that it is in a pretty good spot in terms of ease of use and simplicity for users and also robust and scaleable behind the scenes.
We're considering the feature to be in a "public beta" at the moment - which means most existing (as well as all new) game servers will opted-in to the feature. If you don't want to use it and would prefer to stick to existing backup schedules, no sweat!
Once we decide to change the status of this feature - we will publish a follow-up post with the roadmap and some more lessons we've learned behind the scenes.
If you would like to discuss the TimeMachine feature, our roadmap or you have a suggestion for future features - please let us know at hello@opengamehosting.cloud
Thanks
The OGH Team 👾🚀