Massive World Builder

Netdog is built on a patent-pending network computing and load balancing architecture that automatically load-balances zones across servers, and creates large, scalable and efficient worlds for your games. Netdog supports multiple zones in a virtual world, and zones can be transparently migrated across servers dynamically, giving game operators maximum operating flexibility while maintaining up-time and response for end-users. Netdog has flexible sharding that allows many shards to run on one server or across many servers, giving developers and operators flexibility to efficiently manage shards based on their game needs. In addition, Netdog automatically supports seamless world, allow users to transparently cross zones and servers, moving freely in a large persistent world, all with no additional code.

Netdog has multiple developer tools to ensure maximum up-time and optimal game performance. Netdog has automatic fault-tolerance and recovery when using multiple servers, ensuring the highest reliability, in addition to live failover that ensures clients continue playing even during server failures. Finally, Netdog utilizes a socket consolidation algorithm that allows independent worlds, shards, and instances to share a single socket, minimizing network overhead and speeding your games performance.