Final Fantasy XIV Servers Specs.

[KiwiBubbletea]

Dear FFXIV Community.

I noticed something this Free Login weekend that's the latency was way up, And I got my self thinking, What are the current Specs for our current Data Centers.

The servers were recently updated supposedly when they released Stormblood, But we don't actually know where they were and what they went up too.

I've been actively searching for some details regarding the Specs for these servers and I was wondering how they compare with other larger games out there.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Latency has nothing to do with server specs. I get pings in the low 20s from Washington.

You just have a bad route.

[alimdia]

In addition to above, hardware info is usually not released by game publishers, that's not something of public interest.

[KisaiTenshi]

Dear FFXIV Community.

I noticed something this Free Login weekend that's the latency was way up, And I got my self thinking, What are the current Specs for our current Data Centers.

The servers were recently updated supposedly when they released Stormblood, But we don't actually know where they were and what they went up too.

I've been actively searching for some details regarding the Specs for these servers and I was wondering how they compare with other larger games out there.

By Carrier Moogle.

In all seriousness, latency is a product of multiple moving parts, of which SE only has control of the part inside their part of the data center. If they lease part of a data center, or a building/warehouse to have the servers, there are geographically imposed limitations like distance from the actual carrier hotel and distance from trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific marine cables to consider. Anyone on the eastern half of the country can take a route that either goes through Canada, through the mid-west through Chicago, or through the south-west via Arizona before hitting San Jose. That route can be over various Tier 1 backhauls, which most are owned by Verizon, Comcast or AT&T. So if you're on one of these ISP's, you get no say in how your traffic gets routed. You may live in Florida and be routed to NYC before being routed to San Jose because that may be where Comcast's peering point is for everything in that time zone. If you're on Level3 or cogent backhaul, your ISP is probably just cheap, and that is usually he selling point for people who stream movies/video and don't play online games.

The individual specs of the server ultimately don't matter as each instance is spun up as needed from our perspective, and thus CRZ (Cross Realm Zones) suggest that the world servers are merely the gateway to other machines behind the "server", and those can be scaled up or down as needed.

[Limecat]

Bit of a crapshoot, but you can figure out who runs the server farms and look up their sizzle reel on the types of hardware they offer. Doesn't rule out any sort of custom package SE might have put together, but you can make some guesses at least.

[KaldeaSahaline]

By Carrier Moogle.

In all seriousness, latency is a product of multiple moving parts, of which SE only has control of the part inside their part of the data center. If they lease part of a data center, or a building/warehouse to have the servers, there are geographically imposed limitations like distance from the actual carrier hotel and distance from trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific marine cables to consider. Anyone on the eastern half of the country can take a route that either goes through Canada, through the mid-west through Chicago, or through the south-west via Arizona before hitting San Jose. That route can be over various Tier 1 backhauls, which most are owned by Verizon, Comcast or AT&T. So if you're on one of these ISP's, you get no say in how your traffic gets routed. You may live in Florida and be routed to NYC before being routed to San Jose because that may be where Comcast's peering point is for everything in that time zone. If you're on Level3 or cogent backhaul, your ISP is probably just cheap, and that is usually he selling point for people who stream movies/video and don't play online games.

The individual specs of the server ultimately don't matter as each instance is spun up as needed from our perspective, and thus CRZ (Cross Realm Zones) suggest that the world servers are merely the gateway to other machines behind the "server", and those can be scaled up or down as needed.

There are more than 2 paths. I go through VA directly to CA. No AZ or IL.

[Malzian]

In addition to above, hardware info is usually not released by game publishers, that's not something of public interest.

Oh it's of huge public interest.... to hackers. The more you know about a system the more likely you are to find an exploit. You never want you server hardware to be public knowledge, that's just begging to be breached.

[Zarkovitch]

I am sure the servers are doing way better than Montreal in terms having less issues servers tech stuff.Capacity issues is on engine Eureka is prime exemple of the engine struggle & mmo stuff should being added awhile ago. As for they re ISP is kinda meh/cheap but might be the contract they have with them.I don't exepect SE to go with deluxe edition with them.As for location they could place it better next time but then again its pending on ISP available places.

[KisaiTenshi]

There are more than 2 paths. I go through VA directly to CA. No AZ or IL.

This is not a contest.







http://www.level3.com/-/media/files/...etwork-map.pdf

[KaldeaSahaline]

This is not a contest.

Great info - thanks for that. So which way do you think my traffic goes (with respect to FF14?). The only nodes I touch are local ones, Ashburn VA and SNJ -> Sacramento.