Quote Originally Posted by Krylo View Post
Well, as you said, hardware upgrades/expansions are the solution, but hardware upgrades that will only be necessary or useful for a few hours to a few weeks out of a multi-year run isn't a good way to spend money as a business. Which is why no MMO launches smoothly--it's not smart to spend a bunch of money on server infrastructure that you'll only be using for a few hours. Would you buy a condo in a new city because you're going on a business trip there for a week?

Same idea.
True. But I might rent one, and I think there are companies that allow you to lease either direct hardware or capacity in existing datacenters. I could be totally wrong of course, but given how annoying these errors are and how many people are impacted, I think there has to be some kind of reasonable solution.