How would someone make a multiplayer game with server similar to Ark?

[soft rivet]

The game Ark has servers running 24 hours a day, how is this achieved?

[pine delta]

The game Ark has servers running 24 hours a day, how is this achieved?
they just have some online throughout the day? not sure what you're asking

websites have servers that run 24 hours a day, discord has servers that run 24 hours a day

with those scales you'd have multiple servers both to spread out the workload and for redundancy

[soft rivet]

No I mean the players can join the server anytime and events such as creatures moving still happen 24/7

[pine delta]

if it's public servers, then same thing?

just keep simulating

[soft rivet]

That could be achieved using normal multiplayer stuff?

[vocal orbit]

its literally just a computer running it without care of others

[soft rivet]

That makes sense

I need a server thing to do this I suppose?

[vocal orbit]

most Sever-Client situations never even care about Clients, its the clients that need info synched from server thats where the multiplayer frameworks come in to make it easier

[pine delta]

you need a computer, yes

servers are computers fulfilling a specific role

[vocal orbit]

You can literally host the game on any VPS and it work , or use Unitys Free Tier to start

[pine delta]

most Sever-Client situations never even care about Clients
how does player input fit into that? 🤨

[soft rivet]

ok nav, thanks