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.

[Shurrikhan]

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

You just have a bad route.

Within 500 mi of the server and get 40s-70s, with frequent spikes. On two different ISPs. Both end up garbled once they enter the NTT's service, and bog badly after about 8 PST, especially on Fri/Sat. All other games unaffected. Unlike during HW, none of my VPNs (WTFast, Battleping, Mudfish, Pingzapper) have any real effect on XIV ping or spikes, either, each running into the same issues within the last few hops.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Within 500 mi of the server and get 40s-70s, with frequent spikes. On two different ISPs. Both end up garbled once they enter the NTT's service, and bog badly after about 8 PST, especially on Fri/Sat. All other games unaffected. Unlike during HW, no VPNs have any real effect on XIV ping or spikes, either.

See, I have a bad ISP out here, where occasionally their DNS drops XIV completely, but I just VPN and it boots up fine. Sounds more like an issue with the ISPs going through the same nodes than anything. A VPN can only get you around the issue if there is an alternate path it can take.

[Kazrah]

See, I have a bad ISP out here, where occasionally their DNS drops XIV completely, but I just VPN and it boots up fine. Sounds more like an issue with the ISPs going through the same nodes than anything. A VPN can only get you around the issue if there is an alternate path it can take.

It's basically one path going through San Jose that is the problem because it can't handle the load of all the people using it during primetime hours (~5-10pm) and involves a company Comcast is trying to screw over, or at least that's how I've come to understand it.

[alimdia]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.