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Originally Posted by Angelox
I was thinking; why not have the zones spread out over different servers at different locations? I mean, like x amount of zones here, another amount at GeorgeS, John Adams, and anyone else who wants to be in on it.
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The problem is the Database connection. Each server who starts up zones wants to read whole tables from the MySQL DB. This can take extremely long on a slow connection. And the traffic between the zones and the MySQL DB dont stop after startup. So the uplink probably would be also clogged with traffic to the remote database.
I discovered this when I was trying to start EQEmu in an VMWare instance connecting to the MySQL DB on the host system. Without the propper network drivers out of the VMWare tools its like 100 Kb/s.
Btw: So a dual 750 MHz PIII Server with 2GB Ram would be good enough to hold a well sized crowd? I have an tempting offer. 1U Rackspace with 250GB/month free for 21