To answer you question about servers having 32 GB of ram: each zone uses a certain amount of ram, and so, the more ram you have, the more zones youc can load at one time. You can use dynamic zones, which only boot up when someone enters them, or static zones which are up all the time.
One benefit of dynamic zones is that it keeps the number of concurrently running zones down, which uses fewer resources. The main benefit of static zones, however, is it keeps the zones up to help preserve the states of raid events or quests. Events or quests may reset when unloading/loading zones.
If you are the only client in a zone trying to trigger a spawn, and you gate or die, and the zone shuts down, you will most likely have to start event over and have to deal with respawn times etc. A static zone would prevent that, but it comes with the cost of added ram being used. Most larger servers run many static zones of frequently used zones as well as critical raid zones as static, with the rest available as dynamic.
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