Repent!!! For the end of GOA is nigh???

Silverbirch · Post by **Silverbirch** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:11 pm

Well ok a bit melodramatic mebbe

But I am an elph.. anyhoo noticed that Mythic are planning to open an office in Europe to oversee Imperator's Euro launch. Wonder if that means they might wanna run the show over here DAoC - wise as well.... hmm...

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Finolin · Post by **Finolin** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:48 pm

Please let it be in London. It's about time I got another job.

VidX · Post by **VidX** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:44 pm

Finolin wrote:Please let it be in London. It's about time I got another job.

Not likely, London isn't really a viable place for an EU datacenter, simply because it's limited by 2 main trunks to the rest of EU. The main reason why most companies choose Paris is due to the central location and the higher amount of main trunks into the area, it's sort of a central hub for EU, where the main US/EU lines meet.

Unfortunate thing is though that it relies mostly on the Opentransit network to carry the traffic, which means that if there is a large Opentransit outage you can see most of the MMORPGs based in EU lose connection to most of the subscribers (WoW has a datacenter in Paris and somewhere in Germany iirc, DAoC in Paris for example).

Theoretically it's the best location, but in practice it's all relying on mainly one ISP/carrier to perform at 100%.

Ankh Morpork · Post by **Ankh Morpork** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:23 pm

Imo sweden would be best, let Sunnet provide the customers with the game since we got one of the fastest connections in the world

/Ankh

VidX · Post by **VidX** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:35 pm

Fastest connections, yes. But not very feasible for any customers not in Sweden.

Reason being there is, like the UK, only 2 main trunks to the rest of the EU (Scandanavia not counted) so there's still going to be problems with an EU datacenter.

Trust me, companies don't just pick their locations at random, they look at the requirements for their product and then choose the best location for it, and they go into it in a bit more depth than "but I have a 1gb line in my house, come to <insert random country with 1gb connections> we have fast internet access!"

Ankh Morpork · Post by **Ankh Morpork** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:54 pm

Ahh...but thats where you are wrong mate

sunnet is not only fast for swedes

Edit: Ive heard many people say that WoW has very low lag on their servers. Thats also a swedish. I think its telia holding them in denmark (correct me on this one if Im wrong)

/Ankh

Scharr · Post by **Scharr** » Wed May 11, 2005 12:36 am

Ankh Morpork wrote:Ahh...but thats where you are wrong mate sunnet is not only fast for swedes

Edit: Ive heard many people say that WoW has very low lag on their servers. Thats also a swedish. I think its telia holding them in denmark (correct me on this one if Im wrong)

/Ankh

denmark rules!

Ankh Morpork · Post by **Ankh Morpork** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:02 am

Scharr wrote:denmark rules!

they rule so much...that they have to rely on a swedish company to get them decent lines ]/Ankh[/B]

Blight · Post by **Blight** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:31 am

Well, not gonna happen I think cuz Mythic sold it to Goa I think so they can't just revoke that lisence.

Anpu · Post by **Anpu** » Wed May 11, 2005 2:32 am

Ankh Morpork wrote:Ahh...but thats where you are wrong mate sunnet is not only fast for swedes

Edit: Ive heard many people say that WoW has very low lag on their servers. Thats also a swedish. I think its telia holding them in denmark (correct me on this one if Im wrong)

/Ankh

Telia is just providing the bandwith, the datacenters are still located in Paris and Frankfurt.