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DocsHost guide
Docs · mmo host
Pick a game and an age band, decide who pays with hostFree, and hold a shard slot for an hourly rental prorated per minute. You always see the quote before anything could bill.
Step one
Every server is scoped to one game and one band (kids, teens, or adults). The band never changes mid-shard — changing the audience means renting a new server. Some games set a floor: a game rated teens+ rejects a kids room below its minimum band.
Step two — the money question
One boolean on the server row decides the split. When hostFree is on, the host subsidizes all three cost legs — server, load, and rental. When it is off, players split server + load per minute and the host still pays the prorated rental alone.
🎁 hostFree ON — the host treats everyone
🤝 hostFree OFF — the table splits the bill
Example: a 400-coin ($4.00) job → 300 coins provider credits, 100 coins platform. You only ever see the gross 400. All credits are on-site only (cloud compute, game credits, other on-site services); never cash-out, never withdrawable.
The room
The rental leg is quoted per hour but settled pro-rata per minute (rental_per_hour × minutes ÷ 60). Shards default to 32 players; rent-time sizes run 2–500. The browser lists headcount against the cap upfront, and entry stays first-come within the band.
rent quote — teens room, hostFree off
quotequotes only until the ledger migration lands — nothing bills yet