Getting current list of Photon Cloud servers

natasky

Hi,

According to the Regions tutorial (http://doc.exitgames.com/photon-cloud/Regions/#cat-reference), we should let the game client ping the different regional Photon Cloud servers to select the best one.

Is there any way the game client can fetch an updated list of those servers? This way I don't need to update the client whenever there's a change to the server list.

Thanks! Nathan.

Kaiserludi

Hi Nathan.

No, sorry. Currently there is no automatic way to check, if new cloud regions have been added. Such an event is rather rare. Currently there are 5 regions, eu, us, asia, jp and eu-east, which are already covering the most important regions in the gaming market with a nearby region, so it's unlikely that we will add much more regions.

Each region means one master server + as many game servers as needed. Photon will automatically choose a suitable game-server within a region for a new room on its own under the hood and new game servers will be added by us on the fly, when needed, without an update on your side.

The worst scenario that can happen, is, that we add a new region and some of your players could get better pings than before, but because you have not made an update yet, they would have to wait for this improvement for some more days, but as apparently they have lived without it before that new region has been added, that shouldn't be that bad.

[Deleted User]

Hi Natasky,

as Kaiserludi said, you need to update the clients for now, but we might add a service like this in future. Thanks for the question anyway - this way we know that there is a demand for certain features.

natasky

Thanks for the answer.

Notice that app-eu-east.exitgamescloud.com you mentioned isn't listed at the Regions tutorial (http://doc.exitgames.com/photon-cloud/Regions/#cat-reference), I didn't know about it until now

Nathan

[Deleted User]

Obviously we can't hide anything from you guys

It's not "officially" launched yet, and in fact we are using the same servers as in "EU" (west) for now - but as the name suggests, we are planning to offer more capacity in the East European region. That being said: you can already use it, but don't expect any differences between EU (west) and EU (east) for now.

Kaiserludi

natasky wrote:

Thanks for the answer.

Notice that app-eu-east.exitgamescloud.com you mentioned isn't listed at the Regions tutorial (http://doc.exitgames.com/photon-cloud/Regions/#cat-reference), I didn't know about it until now

Nathan

You can already see it in the Dashboard.

OneManArmy

Any news about east servers?

[Deleted User]

No, we don't plan to offer any Eastern EU servers officially any time soon. Sorry.

[Deleted User]

Quick heads-up: the inofficial EU-EAST region will be discontinued.
We are redirecting all clients to the official EU servers from now on, and on your dashboard, your CCUs will show up at "EU", no longer at "EU-EAST".

As mentioned above, we have been using the same hoster for EU and EU-EAST anyways, so there is no performance change impacted.

Background info: the EU-EAST region was initially created to spread load more evenly between certain servers. By now, we are able to handle that load better, and we don't have any immediate plans to add actual servers in the Eastern EU, so we are consolidating our resources and trying to make things a bit simpler.

app-eu-east.exitgamescloud.com will still be available, but we encourage you to update your clients accordingly and switch to app-eu.exitgamescloud.com .