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[Davegt27]

Just wondering if they had someone monitoring things 24 7 or is it a fully automated operation?

[FupDup]

All we know for sure is that their electrical power is generated by hamster wheels.

[eminus]

That is so 1990s, with all the IaaS, PaaS then PGI won't be doing it but some peons from Amazon, Google or whoever takes care of their severs

[EgoSlayer]

eminus, on 21 May 2016 - 08:20 PM, said:

That is so 1990s, with all the IaaS, PaaS then PGI won't be doing it but some peons from Amazon, Google or whoever takes care of their severs

^ This. PGI doesn't own their data center they are renting/leasing space in someone else's. And the only time you need to be physically near your servers is when you physically have to plug in or unplug something from them - everything else can be done remotely.

[Davegt27]

Don’t you remember when Russ said they built a data center?

So there data center is not the internet server (I don’t think) it’s a place where they can observe and monitor the game (I think) I was wondering if that data center is manned 24/7

A few Town Halls PGI mentioned how they could observe game play
Remember the mediocre comment made referring to some cheaters

Edited by Davegt27, 22 May 2016 - 06:15 AM.

[C E Dwyer]

From the disconnects it's clearly in Russ's parents shed, I gave up playing this weekend the games stability is far to ****, to be bothering with.

[cazidin]

FupDup, on 21 May 2016 - 07:39 PM, said:

All we know for sure is that their electrical power is generated by hamster wheels.

But are they freeborn or vatbred Hamsters?

[EgoSlayer]

Davegt27, on 22 May 2016 - 06:15 AM, said:

Don’t you remember when Russ said they built a data center?

So there data center is not the internet server (I don’t think) it’s a place where they can observe and monitor the game (I think) I was wondering if that data center is manned 24/7

A few Town Halls PGI mentioned how they could observe game play
Remember the mediocre comment made referring to some cheaters

I don't remember them saying they built their data center, I remember them moving data centers.

Regardless, they can observe and monitor games from anywhere in the world. You can remotely operate, watch, and monitor servers from any physical location though a network connection from any other machine in the world through software. As long as they have a network connection they are fully managed. Modern data centers are lights out data centers. They only need people to handle rack and stack, and break/fix. The admins are typically thousands of miles away and often in different countries.

Edited by EgoSlayer, 22 May 2016 - 07:21 AM.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Cathy, on 22 May 2016 - 06:51 AM, said:

From the disconnects it's clearly in Russ's parents shed, I gave up playing this weekend the games stability is far to ****, to be bothering with.

Pings are up, disconnects are up, this morning we even had 90% of both teams fail to make it past the loading screen.
Each and every month im sure the server rental package is downgraded inline with PGI's finances.

[Tordin]

I bet PGI have two ways to power the servers.


or....

[Weeny Machine]

FupDup, on 21 May 2016 - 07:39 PM, said:

All we know for sure is that their electrical power is generated by hamster wheels.

However, you have to grant them that they upgraded to Monsanto American giant hamserters lately.

[Nightmare1]

FupDup, on 21 May 2016 - 07:39 PM, said:

All we know for sure is that their electrical power is generated by hamster wheels.

...And that sometimes, the hamsters get out and chew on the cables.

[Mawai]

Davegt27, on 21 May 2016 - 07:34 PM, said:

Just wondering if they had someone monitoring things 24 7 or is it a fully automated operation?

PGI has three data centers running servers. None of these are located in Vancouver. PGI pays someone to keep the data center up and functional so I doubt that they have actual PGI employees sitting on their hands waiting for a server issue to develop. So .. my guess is No ... they do not have someone watching the servers 24/7 ... though hopefully they have server monitoring processes that will send out alerts to the appropriate people when a problem is detected.