Server farms possible?

[wraithlord98]

Not sure how it's done entirely - but it's how it's done.. you don't honestly think on EQLive they have servers with like 256 billion MB's of memory to handle the server load for 1500+ players per server do you?

[techguy84]

SOE uses old Compaq Deskpro's with 96MB ram for each on of thier servers. How else would they get all the downtime that they do.... duh!!

[wraithlord98]

How much ram does each server hampster have? LOL But sincerely - that's how it's done, just a multitude of different servers all interconnected to help handle the load. That's how they can have so many static zones. The really big issue is handling the bandwidth load from all the players.

[techguy84]

And thats where 100 million linking dial up lines come into play. SOE uses AOL to provide us with the kickin bandwidth throughput.

(I know, a pointless comment, but im a pointless person. )

[narcberry]

I'm pretty sure I read a soe dev post about how patch days were really the consequent of them waiting for their new aol CD's in the mail.