Quote Originally Posted by Seriphim85 View Post
It still kills me that people that have no clue how expensive the hardware behind the game costs say "just buy new servers and shut them down when not needed". Something to handle this kind of concurrent database transactions runs no less than $30,000 US. That's just the server, not any backplanes, racks, power strips, switches, nics etc.. All that and you're running at MINIMUM $50k a pop for a new "world". In the long run if they were 300% sure those servers would be needed and justified there would be no issues just standing up another 80 worlds and waiting to regain the costs
HAHAHAHA you kill me Seriphim..... I hate to tell you... but servers that can run that amount of concurrent users do not run in the $50k range... you had it right if you just stuck with the $30k range...

But... as NONE of us work for SE and are part of them buying servers we ALL can only speculate on what it is that they purchased to handle this kind of load.