Confession time

[Wolfie]

NA/EU Community Rep just posted this on the forums about 15 minutes ago. Seems like they have a plan, but may not be ready for a week or so.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-%28Aug.-27%29

LOL did they really get a datacenter without an easy and fast way to bring more servers online?

Jesus Christ, SE.

[Kenka]

LOL did they really get a datacenter without an easy and fast way to bring more servers online?

Jesus Christ, SE.

Provisioning new servers may take 1-2 days tops, but setting up all the actual FFXIV servers in them and integrating them with the rest of the infrastructure might not be that fast. One week to set up a bunch of new servers does not seem that unreasonable to me.

[De-Kus]

LOL did they really get a datacenter without an easy and fast way to bring more servers online?

It really sounds like that. I wonder where the times have been left, when you simply went up and put SOME new servers SOMEWHERE and simply ignore the trouble you are calling for next month simply because it works as it is.
However to be honest... todays requirements for security and robustness for random stuff probably just don't give any more room for such simple solutions. Script kiddies are everywhere...

With a little bad luck there problem isn't the datacenter, but the supplier is simply out of stock requiring them to deliver new hardware to Canada.