It’s a thing, swimply (but not multiple people). Source: 11 months ago

There’s a website called Swimply, you can rent out pools by the hour. Source: 11 months ago

Swimply is a website where you can rent pools by the hour, privately! This is a non-affiliate link to the website: https://swimply.com. Source: 11 months ago

If it was me looking for private swim lessons, I'd track down Mr. Bill, the oldest and most experienced swim instructor at IUOP (he's retired USCG), ask about his availability (he taught a lot of private students in backyard pools during the pandemic), then reserve a backyard pool on swimply.com . Source: 12 months ago

Have you tried swimply? https://swimply.com/. Source: 12 months ago

Although not production-ready solution for multiplayer, it is a quick, easy and low-cost way to implement multiplayer functionality for prototyping purposes. For more long-term solutions, AWS does offer its own game server hosting service - AWS Gamelift. - Source: dev.to / 12 days ago

You think Amazon servers aren't industry standard? https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/. Source: 12 months ago

There are a ton of technology solutions sold by other companies these days that - with the appropriate funding - can accelerate the timeline of damn near any project, multiplayer online games included. With a bit of expertise and a big enough credit limit, damn near anything's possible. Source: over 1 year ago

Before you get too far into things, give the documentation on GameLift a read: https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/ I’ve never used it myself but it’s an AWS service that handles a lot of the “this is annoying” of deploying game servers on the AWS cloud. It can be used as a complete solution or as modules, and some of those modules might ease your development time. Source: over 1 year ago

On PC, less than 5% of my matches are P2P connections. Google Cloud Game Servers can handle high amount of traffic; it is Google for God's sake! Google & Amazon host a lot of games. The only logical reason that would make the game switch to a player-hosted match should be because you & your opponent are closer to each other than the nearest server, but that's not always the case from the matches I see on PC. I am... Source: almost 2 years ago