Quote Originally Posted by xopher View Post
Out of curiosity where are you getting your info about data center configuration? Do you have a source or is it just supposition?
It's an educated guess based on experience working in the same industry and by understanding the technical meaning behind the posts that Yoshi/devs are making.

Typical set up for global software that tries to support multiple geographic locations is Authentication (FFXIV login servers) > Routing (The lobby server) > Local Server Cluster that serves your software (JP "datacenter", NA/EU "datacenter). Environment misconfigurations in different geographic locations can happen, especially when the team making the software is based in only one time zone/country and server machines themselves are managed in a separate datacenter.