News
Independent Review: Hathora's Path from Simplicity to Scale
Learn about Code Wizards' independent evaluation of Hathora's dedicated server platform.
5 min
Changelogs
September 2025
The leaves aren’t the only thing changing. This month, we’re giving you more control: run mixed hardware using multi-fleet, tag builds in the console, and breeze through a cleaner settings layout. Bonus, Hathora is in its SOC 2 observation period, so we’re extra safe while staying spicy
2 min
AI
A Deep Dive into LLM Inference Latencies
Why? Large language model deployment is becoming a necessity for modern applications, with inference optimization playing a central role in shaping both user experience and cost. Latency spans GPU efficiency, network routing, and autoscaling, making it a complex but rewarding area to improve. At Hathora, we’re drawing on lessons
11 min
Elastic Metal: From Game Servers to Global Infrastructure
The cloud revolution promised to democratize computing. Instead, it created new gatekeepers charging premium prices for commodity resources. It's time to break free. Powering Web Applications Looked Different Across the Decades In the 90s, you bought retail hardware and cobbled together enough on-premises machines to keep your applications
5 min
News
Unreal Build accelerator on Hathora the "Epic Way"
Unreal Build Accelerator (UBA) is one of the most powerful ways to speed up Unreal Engine development, especially for large C++ or shader-heavy projects. By distributing compilation jobs across a farm of machines, developers can cut build times dramatically. We’ve seen teams reduce builds by up to 90% using
2 min
Changelogs
August 2025
Over the last few months, we've built on the strong foundation we created for game servers and expanded to serve more use cases. Our recent launch of Horde UBA on Hathora was the first step, and since then we’ve delivered new ways to put our hybrid multi-cloud
2 min
Technical Blog
Why is AWS so expensive?
Background If you were a company that needed compute resources in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, the prevalent model was purchasing and maintaining your own servers, either in your own datacenters or through colocation services. AWS rapidly transformed the landscape with the launch of EC2 in 2006, allowing
6 min
Technical Blog
Stateful Routing: When Load Balancers Don’t Work
When it comes to scalable backend architecture, the load balancer has long reigned supreme. The best practices always say your backend services should be stateless so that you can scale up multiple replicas and stick them behind a load balancer, achieving horizontal scalability and high availability. For 99% of the
6 min
Changelogs
July 2025
We’ve been cooking at Hathora and not just from the NYC heat. This month, we launched node-level metrics, improved our UBA and backend integration docs, and refreshed the cloud configuration modal in the console. Let’s dive in 💃 🚀 Introducing Node metrics You can now view individual nodes within a
2 min
