Is it time to move the data centers out of Canada?

Somewhere more practical like Texas or Chicago? If we're having this many problems lately just imagine what Stormblood's launch will be like.

I dunno but its time to do something, this has been happening a bit too much lately lol

Every evening I sit down to play, the servers crash followed by maintenance D:

If it was that bad, then the other NA data centers would have gone down too. Aether is just being a special snowflake when it comes to sever instability for some strange reason.

If you take into consideration population density of worlds. It's not being in Canada that's a problem. It's the number off ppl on a server cluster.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

I dunno but its time to do something, this has been happening a bit too much lately lol

Every evening I sit down to play, the servers crash followed by maintenance D:

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Same I couldn't even log in today... Really starting to get annoyed with this... -.-

Mana data center sometimes broken at this patch like, 3 times in 1 week before.

I made another thread about hopeful server upgrades, but I'm sure it will die without any kind of official response or transparency about the issues at hand other than the usual "lol this data center needs emergency maintenance again we r rly sry!!!!!!" Like that other person said, the issue isn't the servers being in Canada, it's with the servers themselves.

A lot of people in the NA community did decide to go to Gilgamesh and Balmung to raid. Both being on the same data center those 2 servers became the most populated on the NA servers. Might be part of the reason that there are so many players in 1 data center.

Our Beavers are currently trying to overthrow the Moose manager it's a very delicate situation expect the servers to be working again soon

Please, no...

I'm getting good pings as it is right now.

And it has nothing to do with the location of the servers. If the servers lack resources, they'll crash no matter where they are.

And I saw other data centers went down while Aether wasn't. I'm doubt it's about not having enough hardware resources. It's just a few down time per year, just like any other networks in the world.

Like its getting ridiculous.

I hope they start the Stormblood server upgrades early because the load of the cross server PF is just too much for the existing systems.

What issues are you talking about?

Every major patch the servers have issues. It has nothing to do with there location.

Also they are in Canada because SE has a studio in Quebec, for that reason they wouldn't move to Texas or Chicago.


I'm on Balmung, I haven't noticed any issues.. playing 2-4 hours a day. Sure they keep doing maintenance but I understand that as a dev post a patch and it never overlaps my playtime.

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Originally Posted by Kewitt

What issues are you talking about?

Every major patch the servers have issues. It has nothing to do with there location.

Also they are in Canada because SE has a studio in Quebec, for that reason they wouldn't move to Texas or Chicago.


I'm on Balmung, I haven't noticed any issues.. playing 2-4 hours a day. Sure they keep doing maintenance but I understand that as a dev post a patch and it never overlaps my playtime.

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4 maintenance times within 2 weeks after a patch? It's not even a matter of "oh I can't play" but more of "so when is it going to crash again?" Is that what we really should be worrying about when we play? People aren't going to stand for this much longer.

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Originally Posted by Wilksha

If you take into consideration population density of worlds. It's not being in Canada that's a problem. It's the number off ppl on a server cluster.

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i blame balmung

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Originally Posted by Averax

i blame balmung

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Balmung itself isn't really the issue. The issue is Balmung and Gilgamesh being on the same datacenter.

They should just swap Gilgamesh with one of the lower population servers on the Primal datacenter.

We don't know anything for sure, it's just speculation that it's overpopulation of those two worlds.

Ultimately it's also nothing to do with us, it's in SE interest to get the servers as stable as possible, but they're not obligated to give us a breakdown of what exactly the problem is and really it's none of our business. We're customers paying a subscription, we don't need to know how it's not working, just if it's working or not.

SE also won't want the hassle from fixing them non-stop and they certainly don't want the bad publicity from servers going up and down all the time so I'm sure they're doing their best to work on a permanent solution.

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Originally Posted by Nezerius

Balmung itself isn't really the issue. The issue is Balmung and Gilgamesh being on the same datacenter.

They should just swap Gilgamesh with one of the lower population servers on the Primal datacenter.

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If SE didn't do anything about it, it probably isn't the cause of the issue there.

I live maybe an hour's drive away from Montreal. Trust me, it ain't the location that's the problem.

Also, haven't the servers been kept there for a long time now? Why are we blaming recent problems on something that has been a constant?

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Originally Posted by Fyrebrand

Also, haven't the servers been kept there for a long time now? Why are we blaming recent problems on something that has been a constant?

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Originally Posted by Averax

i blame balmung

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That's an interesting comment, since Balmung is one of the legacy servers and all.

Join Chaos, it is out of Canada

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Balmung itself isn't really the issue. The issue is Balmung and Gilgamesh being on the same datacenter.

They should just swap Gilgamesh with one of the lower population servers on the Primal datacenter.

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I doubt Gilgamesh or Primal players would appreciate that. From what I keep hearing, a lot more players don't follow the min/mix philosophy on Primal and Gilgamesh, well, does. Can't see that going over well. :p

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Originally Posted by Wilksha

If you take into consideration population density of worlds. It's not being in Canada that's a problem. It's the number off ppl on a server cluster.

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Is the server population also the reason why I can pop Hallowed Ground, then instantly die but the cooldown still proc'd?

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Originally Posted by Beckett

Is the server population also the reason why I can pop Hallowed Ground, then instantly die but the cooldown still proc'd?

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It's because Hallowed Ground has a long animation and the effect doesn't activate until the end of the animation so you can still die from the time you activate it until the animation has finished.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

It's because Hallowed Ground has a long animation and the effect doesn't activate until the end of the animation so you can still die from the time you activate it until the animation has finished.

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Man, that's even worse. I could understand if it was a lag issue (I'd still be upset about it, but at least I could understand it). This is something they could fix in an instant just by making the effect and cooldown happen at the same time, whether that was at the start of the animation or the end. There's absolutely no reason to have those two things happen at different times.

I'd be fine with dying when I tried to pop Hallowed if I didn't lose the 7 minute cooldown as well.