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Order servers off Amazon. Holy crap, that's gotta be one of the best responses (on the Bizarro scale) to a server congestion thread I have ever seen, anywhere, on anyone's forums, in the last decade.

Yeah, just Amazon the parts.

Server infrastructure for MMOs includes all of the following, each of which must be purchased and maintained separately:

- Authentication servers
- Database servers
- Map servers
- Instance servers

...and probably more that I'm not privy to. A global MMO like FFXIV will require multiples of each of the above in order to "expand a datacenter," and that's just the initial purchase price. They'd then need to calculate maintenance, operating costs and upkeep for the foreseeable future. Then, all of that needs to be extrapolated into something the finance team can approve (or disapprove, and require a revision).

Delivery would be a bit more than your local UPS driver dropping off a large box at SE headquarters. It'd be several trucks, or a semi, and there will be forklifts involved to offload the new hardware.

Amazon it. LMFAO. SE, make sure you have Prime for quick delivery.

Hahahaha.