Modern Day Arcade Uses Dedicated Hosting to Let Extreme Gamers Really Game
Step into The Cell CyberLounge and you’ll find a bank of sixteen high end, custom built PCs made just for gamers. The company’s founder and CEO, Sean Maddox not only offers a unique facility for his customers to play the latest and coolest games, but he’s building a community of gamers who can share their most extreme wants and desires when it comes to hardware configuration, hot gaming titles and even a chance to compete in tournaments.
This combination of taking things to the extreme also means extreme demands on servers. Sean had a mandate to himself when he started building his business: focus on building killer gaming machines in-house, and use dedicated hosting to serve content and data. That strategy has served him well, in keeping costs low and passing the savings on to his gaming customers.
For $35 per month, you can get an unlimited pass to game to your heart’s desire. You can also buy 30 hours of gaming time for $15 or 75 hours for $25.
Sean is not just all about gaming. Given the computational demands of gaming, Sean is also using his facility in another creative way: he’s big on Grid Computing. On the back end of his business Sean uses his gaming machines as clients on a distributed cluster platform for high performance computing needs, be it a contract for seismic processing or high demand data crunching that he will do for other companies.
For Sean, dedicated hosting is an enabling platform, that can be integrated into his HPC (high performance computing) cluster, and having the flexibility and reliability of an outside hosting firm that lets him grow and expand his business as needed.
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