My game talks to a custom back-end server (such as a PHP/MySQL setup). Is this going to affect my chances of a sponsorship?
A. Quite possibly. Sponsored Flash games have huge traffic spikes when they launch — assuming they’re succesful, that is! (And of course, sponsors expect you to plan for success.) As the game propagates virally across thousands of game portals, it can quickly see many millions of gameplays in a very small timeframe. If all those game sessions have to talk to your back-end server, it’s a big bottleneck. During the first several months after your game launches, you could be on the hook for several terabytes of bandwidth (which is more than most “unlimited bandwidth” hosting plans will actually let you have), and your server will need to be able to stand up to sustained loads of at least several dozen concurrent connections, which is not something an out-of-the-box LAMP server can do. In other words, you will need experience optimizing a server for heavy load. After the initial spike of traffic wears off, any ordinary server will probably be sufficient… but that first spike of traffic
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