Confession time

[Ruethryl]

While the not being able to login bit is irritating, I am somewhat pleased that the game has such a high level of interest.. as others have said it is a great game when you can manage to login ^^;

[Ryuni]

Made me think of what I saw on Reddit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_o_5tOFLKo

[Wolfie]

Pls write address on this forum so we can go there, cut internet cable to your house and let us login

220 Washington St, Somerville MA 02143. Come at me.

Provisioning new servers may take 1-2 days tops, but setting up all the actual FFXIV servers in them and integrating them with the rest of the infrastructure might not be that fast. One week to set up a bunch of new servers does not seem that unreasonable to me.

They've admitted to reaching facility maximum, and that they're looking to expand it by early next week. It's a classic miscalculation of expected users and mismanagement of failover procedures, probably caused by hiring incompetent sysadmins and typical difficulty communicating across time zones.

[Vaughn]

Wonderful news about the data center, but that is for the JP data center no the NA one.

[Ruethryl]

I'd imagine either a) typo or b) applies to both datacenters.

[Avedis1134]

220 Washington St, Somerville MA 02143. Come at me.

Nice.
/10char

[Wolfie]

Or c) their NA datacenter is still hosed because the company that they're renting from or the team they've hired to manage it is incompetent.

You'd be surprised how easy it is to run across incompetent system administrators, and how easy it is for incompetent system administrators to find work. In fact, it's happening daily where I work, and it's an international titan with over 120,000 employees and profits comparable to a small country.

[Garet]

They've admitted to reaching facility maximum, and that they're looking to expand it by early next week. It's a classic miscalculation of expected users and mismanagement of failover procedures, probably caused by hiring incompetent sysadmins and typical difficulty communicating across time zones.

True it is a big miscalculation. I think they were trying to be conservative on their estimates cuz of what happened during 1.0. During 1.0 there was also huge influx during release but just after a month or so the playerbase was reduced to less than 50% and they suddenly had a lot of under-populated servers which still costs money to maintain etc. They had to merge servers and the excess servers were then considered losses. We have to remember that a server also has a fix monthly cost to a company. Hope they can fix this problem soon. Really love this game from watching my friends play lol!! I myself can't seem to enter cuz of server full

[De-Kus]

LOL did they really get a datacenter without an easy and fast way to bring more servers online?

It really sounds like that. I wonder where the times have been left, when you simply went up and put SOME new servers SOMEWHERE and simply ignore the trouble you are calling for next month simply because it works as it is.
However to be honest... todays requirements for security and robustness for random stuff probably just don't give any more room for such simple solutions. Script kiddies are everywhere...

With a little bad luck there problem isn't the datacenter, but the supplier is simply out of stock requiring them to deliver new hardware to Canada.

[Raees]

220 Washington St, Somerville MA 02143. Come at me.

Lawl I did the exact same thing about 10 miles from you in Jamaica Plain. When youre all done cutting his come on by my place.