Quote Originally Posted by Moonlite View Post
Manual labour? It takes none. What it takes is server resources.
There's a lot of work that goes into setting up physical servers and getting them ready to work with your product. And getting space for those servers to exist in. And hiring staff to maintain them.

That's why services like AWS have kind of been blowing up the way tech infrastructure works, because for a price it provides a way to avoid all of that hassle. And I feel like it's a very safe assumption to make that FF14 isn't using any similar service, because if they were then you're right, getting additional server resources would be only slightly trickier than writing a "Hello World" application.