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[Dualgunner]

They moved it to California...as an Arizonan, hallelujah but I was expecting a far more centralized location. Why Cali?

[Sagittarii]

It's a reasonable guess, though there's no hard evidence one way or another.

All companies do their own thing, but I've worked for a few companies that hosted web services and leased data center space. In each of these companies, the network/server team worked out of one of the offices and rarely visited the data center unless it was necessary. All the gear was accessible via remote tools, so there was no need to be there unless something major was happening.

[Kethic]

I'm impressed that we've only reached 30 pages of server location anxiety. I expected it to be worse.

[Belhi]

I live in the southern parts of Australia, a nation renown for lousy internet infrastructure, and play on a server in Japan and the game is quite playable. You guys will all be fine.

[UltimusVivi]

i thought the idea was to make the data center to a more central location i was expecting Colorado,Texas, Ohio... but California just seems to just cause the opposite problem... unless they plan to add a sub data center on the other coast as well sometime in the future...

[Kethic]

i thought the idea was to make the data center to a more central location i was expecting Colorado,Texas, Ohio... but California just seems to just cause the opposite problem... unless they plan to add a sub data center on the other coast as well sometime in the future...

I was under the impression the relocation was a necessity to solve a capacity/infrastructure problem, not a location problem.

[Ama_Hamada]

I was under the impression the relocation was a necessity to solve a capacity/infrastructure problem, not a location problem.

Yeah i doono, I like to know for sure, and interested if the old servers have anything do with the slowness I keep seeing.

[Bjond]

I hope this happens again. my concerned is the amount of Gil I got and they won't allowed me to take. Gil that earned and saved for over 3 years.

Transfer prevents moving over 1m gil, but you can transfer all your items. I was "forced" to transfer my alt from a nice friendly low population server. Low MB volatility was pressuring me to become an omnicrafter if I wanted to stay. After moving to large server, my alt's net-worth increased by roughly 6x and I don't have to craft.

I didn't do anything special -- just checked the destination MB before moving and converted non-transferable gil into items to resell. It's certainly far more tedious than transferring blindly, but it does mean that gil is one of the good things about moving.

The bad is what you absolutely can't take with you: friends, community, FC, etc.. There are a LOT of nice people all over in this game, but it's always a shame to leave some behind for game reasons.

[Kethic]

Yeah i doono, I like to know for sure, and interested if the old servers have anything do with the slowness I keep seeing.

I recall an interview... I can't find the link... where they implied that many of their design decisions were based around NA data center limitations. Even now, they're talking about increased inventories and such for SB, and they've pointed at the new datacenter as the enabling piece.

[Grehmlynn]

Well I think it would benefit eeeeveryone if the servers moved to Kelowna B.C ;P Juuuust saying, we've got beautiful scenery, SE, and tons of room!

All jokes aside, people are acting like everyone who weighed the decision at SE is probably sitting in a corner eating glue and crayons. I'm sure if it even is on West Coast that there are a number of reasons that went into making that choice, not solely location.

I can understand if the European players are balancing on the edge of their seat hoping any changes don't ruin their gameplay, and I hope that nothing worsens for them. But they're giving us shiny new servers and we're still complaining just because the SPECULATED area isn't ideal? Let's lay down our torches and pitchforks, have a nice cup of coffee or tea, and actually wait and see how things turn out? Everyone just needs to mellow out a bit / v \ The two day maintenance has everyone going into withdrawals lel