Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
The EU DC and the new NA DC were all paid for by Mogstation funds according to Yoshi.
The “new NA DC” is an amalgamation of currently existing servers with a new set of shared resources like login and instance servers. A woefully incorrect solution to load balancing (“split the players up and hope they stay roughly at the distribution we want them to”) with the entirely unacceptable cost of severing social ties in an online game.

If they want to address the situation properly, they need to invest in enterprise load balancing appliances, long term investment in proper rearchitecture, and short term throwing money at the problem with cloud compute (made necessary by the fact that they sat on their hands and aimed to sell us this half-baked solution).

FFXIV is not an exceptional product with problems no service provider has ever encountered before. We solve load (yes, and DoS) problems like this every single day, on orders of magnitude greater scale than the traffic that XIV receives. And yes, regularly with horrendously outdated spaghetti code and database design that belongs in a 1970s manual on how not to use SQL. Again, this game’s problems are not unique. The difference is clients who pay for our “serious business” services would have our heads if we tried to pull what SE is doing, while they have adoring fans to use as a free PR firm.