Question about limitation of people at the time (12-20 people)

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Hello again.

I have a question. How many people does Needle support at a time: 12-20 per room, or 12-20 per build?

In other words, could I create 20 rooms with 20 people in each one? Or a total of 20 people regardless of the number of rooms?

Thanks

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by user 801298590676156416

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Hi! So if you deploy a project to Glitch, the instance running there is strong enough to support ~20 people at the same time on that instance aka on that Glitch page.

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That’s basically limited by the strength (or lack of) of these tiny free virtual machines that Glitch runs projects on.

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So “total per Glitch instance” is ~20, depends a bit on how many messages you send etc - that ballpark number of 20 is “20 people sending around 3 transforms per frame” as for example when you have VR avatars.

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This is related: Discord

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TL;DR is basically “that’s currently how it works, we’re thinking about providing some service that optionally allows you to run rooms on our infrastructure instead of tiny glitch instances”

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Thanks for your answer.

One last question. I uploaded the project to my apache hosting, which doesn’t support gzip and the teamwork feature doesn’t work either. In that case, would there be a problem with the limitation of users? I would think not, because the teamwork function is not working.

by user 801298590676156416

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If you don’t have a room open / don’t need networking the only limit is your server strength (usually even tiny servers can serve thousands of pages per second)

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Just make sure you don’t have any networking components in your scene

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You can disable gzip compression in vite.config.js by removing this line (14)
viteCompression({ deleteOriginFile: true })