Primal Data Center

[Vies]

They didn't arrange the servers into data centers until at least a few months after release(I took a break from Oct - Feb so I'm not sure on the exact length of time). So, they had a pretty good idea of how populated servers were.

[WHS]

They didn't arrange the servers into data centers until at least a few months after release(I took a break from Oct - Feb so I'm not sure on the exact length of time). So, they had a pretty good idea of how populated servers were.

Sandboxing servers doesn't fix the problem it only puts it in a smaller place. Same issues just a smaller box to have them in. I would have assumed that with this they would also increase server capacity. I think I heard they did but cannot find a link to confirm. If not that is a problem onto itself. Without sandboxing more servers would see the same fate as primal. I truly hope they do one big thing to fix this problem Spend some more money on capacity because it is not working right now.

[Vies]

Sandboxing servers doesn't fix the problem it only puts it in a smaller place. Same issues just a smaller box to have them in. I would have assumed that with this they would also increase server capacity. I think I heard they did but cannot find a link to confirm. If not that is a problem onto itself. Without sandboxing more servers would see the same fate as primal. I truly hope they do one big thing to fix this problem Spend some more money on capacity because it is not working right now.

That's not really what I was talking about, but either way I thought I read that the main reason for the data centers was to lower DF wait times(might be wrong, though). Either way, I agree. These maintenances are apparently only bandaid fixes. Hopefully they're working on a true solution to the problem.

[Shioban]

Buy a new car, so therefore with this logic, SE needs to buy a new data center. (hue hue)

I guess it depends on the issue they're having.

If it's buckling under the pressure, yes replacing the hardware might be an option (albeit a very very expensive one, hundreds of thousands of dollars).

If it's simply an issue with malignant code causing errors/conflicts then a 'Shiny new server' won't fix it sadly.

Sandboxing servers doesn't fix the problem it only puts it in a smaller place. Same issues just a smaller box to have them in. I would have assumed that with this they would also increase server capacity. I think I heard they did but cannot find a link to confirm. If not that is a problem onto itself. Without sandboxing more servers would see the same fate as primal. I truly hope they do one big thing to fix this problem Spend some more money on capacity because it is not working right now.

That is very, very, expensive and takes a long time.
Simply because on a Moday/Tuesday you hit your capacity, doesn't provide enough of an incentive to shell out a couple of hundred thousand dollars and months of preperatino.

A quote from the beta which explains it best;

1.) Data Centers are expensive to operate. Over estimating could cost a company hundreds of thousands of dollars in unnecessary costs.

2.) Data Centers are time consuming to expand. It's not as simple as installing Windows 7 on your desktop. You need to prepare hundreds of discrete operators, and then link them together, and then link that cluster to the larger server network. This takes a lot of time.

Should there have been more server capacity? Yes, but it's too easy to say that now when it's needed. But a cursory look at the load issues show pretty clearly that they started about two days after the game went live. Square probably noticed that they were approaching their limits during early access, and were working to get new clusters spinning since then. But again, this isn't a "call up godaddy" situation.

Look I'm annoyed, too. I'm betting my return to MMO gaming on FFXIV, and I was massively impressed by what I saw in beta. But a little maturity goes a long way here.

There are other potential solutions but these would take a rather long time to prepare and would require a hefty amount of down-time.
Transferring (lets say) Excalibur and Hyperion to a different data-centre pending how it's set-up could take days if not even weeks to prepare, set-up and test.