Hey.

The problem here is, cloud instances are not really comparable to real servers. A typical cloud instance has a very low performance per CPU core. But you can rent thousands of them. If the FF14 server software is not prepared to run in those cloud instances then the results will be a real mess.

And yes, you can also rent real servers. But nobody knows whether the FF14 server software can run on standard PC server hardware or not. If they have something more special like Sun SPARC then it will be far more difficult to rent something like that.

Cheers