Cloud Data Center: Awful Idea

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Im starting to notice a very obvious Pattern that Im only now catching on to......
Dont know if Im upset about it, or impressed it stealthed me for this long.

[Jeeqbit]

Im starting to notice a very obvious Pattern that Im only now catching on to......
Dont know if Im upset about it, or impressed it stealthed me for this long.

Oh? What's that?

I've always had a theory that SE's servers run on rather outdated hardware and solving performance issues/migrating to newer architecture etc is problematic (Eg: look at how long EU servers had horrible rubber banding in duties for back in SB).

They have improved the hardware sometimes with infrastructure maintenances.

If that is indeed correct, running the servers in the cloud (Aka basically running on AWS or Azure etc) will give SE far more flexibility to scale the capabilities of the DC up or down as required and most importantly, they should be able to scale it virtually overnight.

Yes, that is the point. The reason they decided against the cloud is because it's slower. However, it also allows them to respond to congestion such as what we get at an expansion launch. So that is why they are making it an option but not making it replace the physical servers. They believe physical is faster.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Oh? What's that?

They have improved the hardware sometimes with infrastructure maintenances.

Yes, that is the point. The reason they decided against the cloud is because it's slower. However, it also allows them to respond to congestion such as what we get at an expansion launch. So that is why they are making it an option but not making it replace the physical servers. They believe physical is faster.

Im not gonna say it out loud.
Ill just be stealth and keep it to myself.