How Square Enix can solve both data center travel and ping/routing issues for NA

[VerdeLuck]

It's been suggested 1000 times that DCs should be in physically different locations, but as the Gongcha and other collaborations have shown, SE only really knows about the west coast in NA. Every other part might as well not exist.
We will continue to have all our servers in California because that's where SE wants their HQ to be and it's cheaper to rent racks in 1 data center than in 4 different data centers or in the cloud.

The Cloud DC test where it was east coast was much better for ping than we have currently, but they were quick to tell us this does not mean anything and they are not going to be moving any DCs to other locations any time soon.

[mana-burner]

It's been suggested 1000 times that DCs should be in physically different locations, but as the Gongcha and other collaborations have shown, SE only really knows about the west coast in NA. Every other part might as well not exist.
We will continue to have all our servers in California because that's where SE wants their HQ to be and it's cheaper to rent racks in 1 data center than in 4 different data centers or in the cloud.

The Cloud DC test where it was east coast was much better for ping than we have currently, but they were quick to tell us this does not mean anything and they are not going to be moving any DCs to other locations any time soon.

If enough people are vocal they will eventually act accordingly. I know that the original purpose of the cloud server test was to test the viability of the service, but since most of the feedback was regarding how good the connection was from the east coast and South America I'm hopeful that they're considering it. The problem with SE is that they move very fucking slow when it comes to this kind of thing so it could be a while before they even mention their findings from the cloud server tests.

they were quick to tell us this does not mean anything and they are not going to be moving any DCs to other locations any time soon.

When did they say this?

[VerdeLuck]

If enough people are vocal they will eventually act accordingly. I know that the original purpose of the cloud server test was to test the viability of the service, but since most of the feedback was regarding how good the connection was from the east coast and South America I'm hopeful that they're considering it. The problem with SE is that they move very fucking slow when it comes to this kind of thing so it could be a while before they even mention their findings from the cloud server tests.



When did they say this?

The cloud server test was not to test the viability of other data center locations, it was to test the viability of spinning up AWS servers to meet demand before bringing them back down, basically what Shadow in EU was for Dawntrain launch. They were pretty clear the entire time that this was not a plan to move any existing DCs into the cloud or move them between data centers.