Data Center Redistribution for Crystal (Two Weeks without being able to log in?)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The company they rented the servers from most likely changed. I doubt they physically moved servers across the pond. Also take into account the world visiting feature being flipped on. That will add another step to all of this. Ultimately, it does say "Over a two week period."

Remember, Chaos was down for five days and went through something similar. However, Chaos was moved intact from hardware to hardware. In this situation you're removing individual servers from the data center cluster and making an entirely new one. Chaos was already made and just needed to be moved. It didn't become a data center from another data center. They cited two weeks not me.

You are misreading it. It takes more than 24 hours to transfer data across the world. I wasn't talking about physical servers. Thats why Chaos took so long. They also had to do final checks on the servers, make sure the data was transferred without corruption.

It would take longer to move data that far, than to just split the datacenters logically. Thats all they are doing. Changing which lobby and duty finder server they get pointed at.

Proximity makes a huge difference when transferring large amounts of data. You can use 10gig, 40gig, or 100gig within a datacenter itself. Over the atlantic, I'd be shocked if they got anywhere close to 1gig.