A Cozy MMO Migrated in Days with Edgegap's Game Server Orchestration
Written in collaboration with
Qloud Games
Key Highlights
When Qloud Games' hosting provider announced it was shutting down, the team had weeks to act before their closed beta. A proof-of-concept migration of their game server hosting and orchestration to Edgegap was complete in under 24 hours. A production-ready environment was live in under a week.
The Edgegap team was available at every step of the migration, from game server environment setup to technical troubleshooting, ensuring Qloud Games never hit a wall during the most critical window of the project.
The Loftia closed beta ran flawlessly. Edgegap's orchestration automatically scaled hundreds of game servers, including Loftia’s hub environments supporting up to 100 simultaneous players, handling thousands of concurrent users without disruption. Loftia’s backers loved it.
The Studio
Qloud Games is the indie studio behind Loftia, a cozy multiplayer world where players farm, craft, explore, and decorate together while building toward a more sustainable future. Loftia is an Unreal Engine 5 powered a social MMO built around large, shared hub environments and a complex multiplayer architecture, with a passionate early community that showed up in force for its first closed beta.
The Challenge
Weeks before the Loftia closed beta, Qloud Games received unwelcome news: their hosting provider of several years was shutting down. With only a month to act, and a game server infrastructure designed to support hubs of up to 100 simultaneous players to migrate, the team needed a path forward that was fast, reliable, and didn't require starting from scratch.
As Eric Mallon, CTO and co-founder of Qloud Games, put it:
"Hearing that your hosting provider you've been with for a couple years is shutting down in a month, mere weeks before launching your beta test is not a great way to start a day. Especially when you are building a cozy MMO with a complex backend."
The Solution
Qloud Games evaluated Edgegap and moved quickly. A working proof-of-concept game server migration was complete in under 24 hours. A full, production-ready orchestration environment followed within a week, just in time for the closed beta launch.
The Edgegap team was hands-on throughout, available for immediate support, custom game server environment setup, and rapid technical feedback whenever Qloud Games needed it.
"On an extremely tight timeline, we were able to get a proof-of-concept migration to Edgegap done in under 24 hours, with a production-ready version tested in under a week. The Edgegap team was always immediately available to support the migration, help set up a custom environment, and give quick technical feedback."
Eric Mallon, Co-Founder, Qloud Games
When the beta launched, Edgegap's orchestration scaled automatically to meet player demand, spinning up and managing hundreds of game server instances, including Loftia's large hub environments. Thousands of concurrent users. No disruptions. Just players enjoying the game.
"We were able to run a super successful beta test with thousands of CCU and hundreds of servers flawlessly."
Eric Mallon, Co-Founder, Qloud Games
Conclusion
What could have been a catastrophic setback turned into a non-event. Qloud Games migrated its game server hosting and orchestration under extreme time pressure and launched a successful closed beta without compromise.
The Loftia community showed up, the servers scaled, and the team could focus on the game rather than the infrastructure.
That's the point.
