Mega Worlds -- Is it possible?

[Delsus]

"Feasible" in this context means what would they have to gain for the increased operational costs of creating mega worlds.

Granted, I don't know how the client and servers will operate in version 2.0, but right now they're all buckling with ~300 people sitting in one area (north Ul'dah).

The operational costs of a mega server will be lower, there is one server to maintain rather than 10, so they will need less people working on that, the fuel bill will be lower, running the hardware in one box uses less than 10 boxes etc etc, its a big reason why companies are moving towards server consolidation now.

The implementation costs will be very high (new hardware and possible infrastructure upgrades). Operational costs is the cost to run and maintain the servers, implementation costs is what it takes to upgrade existing servers or buy new ones.

[Wolfie]

The operational costs of a mega server will be lower, there is one server to maintain rather than 10, so they will need less people working on that, the fuel bill will be lower, running the hardware in one box uses less than 10 boxes etc etc, its a big reason why companies are moving towards server consolidation now.

The implementation costs will be very high (new hardware and possible infrastructure upgrades). Operational costs is the cost to run and maintain the servers, implementation costs is what it takes to upgrade existing servers or buy new ones.

As someone who right now is actively working on re-deploying large scale applications from beefy VMs to small Amazon EC2 clouds, this is totally wrong.

Vertical scaling does not work for server infrastructure because you don't factor in just "day to day" operational costs like electricity or "man power." You have to factor in failures, load balancing, overhead costs, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem