Photon Application

The following page provides details on domains, networks, IPs, hosting services, and content delivery networks used by Photon.

Description

Photon is a global cross-platform multiplayer game backend as a service (SaaS, Cloud) for games and applications.

Category	Games
Web Link	Photon - Home Page

Application Domains

The application domains data shown here is available in our Netify Data Feeds solution. The data is accessible via our IP API as well as downloadable datasets.

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Domains

Primary Domains

Primary Domains are owned and managed by the application vendor.

Platform Domains are often provided by hosting providers, content delivery networks, SaaS platforms and other third parties. It is important to identify these domains for DNS filters and hostname blocklists.

Platform Domains

Cloudflare	{hidden}.cloudflare.net
Microsoft Azure	{hidden}.trafficmanager.net	and 5 more

Hosting

Cloud hosting vendors like AWS and Microsoft Azure provide cloud-based computing and network resources to deliver applications. The hosting platforms used by Photon are summarized below by geographical points-of-presence (PoP). Each PoP can host many IPs to deliver an application.

Cloud Hosts	# of IPs
Gcore	210
Microsoft Azure	4
IBM Cloud	53
Linode	1
Servers.com	7

Host	PoP	Location	IPs
Gcore	Core	India	1 IP
Gcore	Core	Singapore	10 IPs
Gcore	Core	United States	104 IPs
Gcore	Core	Germany	13 IPs
Gcore	Core	United Arab Emirates	2 IPs
Gcore	Core	Australia	3 IPs
Gcore	Core	Luxembourg	3 IPs
Gcore	Core	Turkey	3 IPs
Gcore	Core	Hong Kong	4 IPs
Gcore	Core	South Korea	4 IPs
Gcore	Core	Brazil	5 IPs
Gcore	Core	Japan	5 IPs
Gcore	Core	Netherlands	53 IPs
IBM Cloud	Core	Australia	1 IP
IBM Cloud	Core	Netherlands	21 IPs
IBM Cloud	Core	Brazil	5 IPs
IBM Cloud	Core	Singapore	5 IPs
IBM Cloud	Core	Japan	6 IPs
IBM Cloud	Core	India	7 IPs
IBM Cloud	Core	United States	8 IPs
Linode	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	1 IP
Microsoft Azure	Amsterdam	Netherlands	1 IP
Microsoft Azure	Richmond	United States	3 IPs
Servers.com	Core	United States	2 IPs
Servers.com	Core	Netherlands	5 IPs

Content Delivery Networks - CDNs

In order to get information to end users more quickly, many applications are distributed from multiple geographical points-of-presence (PoPs) using Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Each PoP can host many IPs to deliver an application. A sample IP is provided.

Take special note of CDNs that use Anycast technology. Anycast makes it possible to route a single IP address to a variety of different geographic locations. In other words, one global Anycast IP is hosted in multiple geographic locations.