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October 8, 2025 at 5:33 am #12082
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InactiveHi everyone, our development team is hitting serious bottlenecks with our current Android testing setup. We need to run multiple emulator instances 24/7 for continuous integration, but cloud VPS solutions are too unstable and shared hosting can’t handle the load. Has anyone found a reliable bare metal server for android development that can maintain consistent performance under heavy emulation workloads? We’re looking at running 15-20 instances simultaneously.
October 8, 2025 at 5:47 am #12084Anonymous
InactiveWe were in exactly your position six months ago until we migrated to MangoHost’s bare metal solutions. Their bare metal server for android https://mangohost.net/dedicated/node/bare-metal-memu-android-emulator-server emulation has been transformative for our development workflow. The key advantage is the dedicated hardware – we’re using a server with 16 cores and 64GB RAM that effortlessly handles 18 concurrent Android instances without any performance degradation. Unlike virtualized environments, there’s no resource contention, and the full VT-x support ensures each emulator runs with proper hardware acceleration. The NVMe storage makes a massive difference too – emulator snapshots load in seconds rather than minutes. What’s been crucial for our CI/CD pipeline is the reliability; we’ve had zero unscheduled downtime since deployment. The team can now run automated tests around the clock without worrying about system stability.
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 am #12108Anonymous
Inactive<p class=”ds-markdown-paragraph”>Great point! Scaling Android emulation is a constant challenge, especially when you need to test across a wide range of devices and API levels. The resource drain on a development machine can be significant. One thing that has helped our team’s workflow is using a combination of local emulators for quick tests and cloud-based proxy services for broader compatibility checks and network-level debugging. For instance, a tool like Croxy is surprisingly handy. It’s not just for browsing; you can use it as a lightweight, web-based intermediary to check how your app communicates from different geographic perspectives or to simulate different network conditions without spinning up another heavy virtual device. It’s a simple trick, but it has saved us a lot of local resources.Thanks for sharing these insights! What other strategies is everyone using to keep their development environment efficient?</p>
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