Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[LVNeptune]

Can pretty much guarantee the relocation will be to Las Vegas, NV at Switch. Would be pretty much idiocy not to since Vegas has multiple, redundant fiber lines branching out to the rest of the US. CenturyLink, Level3, Cox, and a few others.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Most datacenters look alike though. I'm in them almost every day for work, I've seen them from many many companies, and they all use the same floor tiles, and the good ones all have the same type of cable management runs above the racks.

[Arksvalor]

It might be a contractual obligation that they don't directly disclose it.

That said, I wonder if this will hurt or help people play on NA severs in Australia or New Zealand? I guess there's no way to know for sure until it happens but Oceania players tend to get the short end of the stick fairly often already.

I'm dreading this also, they don't seem to really care for the Oceanic region the lag is fairly horrendous already without using a VPN like WTFast. If it's any worse where I can't do endgame content I'll probably be moving to a JPN server.

[Zojha]

If it's any worse where I can't do endgame content I'll probably be moving to a JPN server.

Can it get any worse?^^'

Montreal is already very far northeast on the continent. The distance to Australia and New Zealand will in all likelihood decrease, so the ping should decrease as well.

I doubt you'll get to see much of a decrease without VPNs however, because if VPNs are helping, it's usually not a distance issue as much as a routing issue.

[ReplicaX]

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THIS IS SPECULATION BASED.

These are pictures referenced from the Sacramento Raging Wire base.

Raging Wire DID open a Texas Center at the end of April....

Keeping your bold speculation quoted for obvious reasons.

Sacramento would be a horrible decision. Especially when I was stationed near their for 6 years and the issues we had. On top of it being geographically horrible for NA users as a whole.

If they opened a Texas Center end of April, it makes no sense unless SE coordinated with them over a year ago when they started working on the relocation project.

Again my opinion is speculation as well, with some personal xp. We will all find out the truth next week anyway.

[LVNeptune]

Not disclosing it just makes no sense from any standpoint. As soon as it goes live and you see where the connection is going takes all of 10 seconds to see where the IP address is registered in ARIN

[Blackbird1]

People will likely figure out where the servers are as soon as they connect. It's not like you have exactly hidden the current servers locations. Why hide it now?

internet terrorists? dunno maybe they dont want people hacking it or something

[Azurelos]

Most datacenters look alike though. I'm in them almost every day for work, I've seen them from many many companies, and they all use the same floor tiles, and the good ones all have the same type of cable management runs above the racks.

This, If you check out virtual tours of other datacenters you'll see a similar scheme as well. Regardless, still strongly hoping it's not in California.

[EUSerena]

...Montreal is already very far northeast on the continent. The distance to Australia and New Zealand will in all likelihood decrease, so the ping should decrease as well. ...

Well mostly EU players will be affected. Would be great if we could hear from the master himself on the location, and on the free transfer that I asked about.

[Arksvalor]

Oh that's good wasn't sure on the specifics.