Diablo II had over 400 servers for just the USEast Realm. This was reduced over time. These servers include Game servers, DB servers, and realm controllers (servers that actually stored account/character info)
I'm sure with blizzard anticipating the biggest launch of the company to date, there will be several thousand servers as the majority of the game is completely dynamically database driven.
My guess is there is multiple servers across us, since you can only be 4 at the same time in the same game, it will assign you, based on the latency you have vs to the server, it will choose the server nearest the player that has the most lag so he can keep up with the team. Let's say, North east, south east, south west, north west and central. If it can handle millions of connection? I hope so.
All this is purely speculation based on nothing
These aren't really "Servers" are they?
I would atleast rather call them realms than servers.
For instance if 1000 people would be playing on US realm they would not be playing on the same
server (hardware) but maybe 50ish different servers.
@OP
I honestly doupt they will have ALL the servers for the US realm in the same place.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had servers in afew places in the US.
Magousta, you are correct. I'm sure blizzard has designed the new battle.net to be a multi datacenter platform.
When you log into battle.net via the diablo 3 game client you will be logging into the realm servers which are the closest to you (latency wise)
Blizzard does not own their own data centers, they lease data center space from AT&T in san francisco, virginia, colorado, dallas and Virginia which has multiple 10gigabit links between DC's that are mux'd via dwdm onto AT&T's fiber infrastructure.
As far as the game servers go and how the platform is build, It is quite possible d3 was built on a database engine similar to hbase which rides on top of a multi-datacenter distributed file system for speed and redundancy.
These aren't really "Servers" are they?
I would atleast rather call them realms than servers.
For instance if 1000 people would be playing on US realm they would not be playing on the same
server (hardware) but maybe 50ish different servers.
@OP
I honestly doupt they will have ALL the servers for the US realm in the same place.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had servers in afew places in the US.
Although i don't know for sure.
There'll definitely be more than one server per region. There's no way they could fit all of the US-region eligible people on one server. It'll be many servers linked into one region.
I was just answering the question based on what he asked. DII's US West, US East, Asia, and Europe is the same as DIII's US, Asia, and Europe.
Magousta, you are correct. I'm sure blizzard has designed the new battle.net to be a multi datacenter platform.
When you log into battle.net via the diablo 3 game client you will be logging into the realm servers which are the closest to you (latency wise)
Blizzard does not own their own data centers, they lease data center space from AT&T in san francisco, virginia, colorado, dallas and Virginia which has multiple 10gigabit links between DC's that are mux'd via dwdm onto AT&T's fiber infrastructure.
As far as the game servers go and how the platform is build, It is quite possible d3 was built on a database engine similar to hbase which rides on top of a multi-datacenter distributed file system for speed and redundancy.
if i remember correctly the Americas servers is a few thousand already spread not just in North America but some are located in Singapore, Latin America, etc. i have no worry on latency really, unless you have a crappy internet provider you should be fine.
the three main servers are:
Americas (North America, Latin America, Australia, South East Asia)
Europe
Asia (South Korea, Hingkong)
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any idea what diablo 3 will have?
I'm sure with blizzard anticipating the biggest launch of the company to date, there will be several thousand servers as the majority of the game is completely dynamically database driven.
All this is purely speculation based on nothing
These aren't really "Servers" are they?
I would atleast rather call them realms than servers.
For instance if 1000 people would be playing on US realm they would not be playing on the same
server (hardware) but maybe 50ish different servers.
@OP
I honestly doupt they will have ALL the servers for the US realm in the same place.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had servers in afew places in the US.
Although i don't know for sure.
When you log into battle.net via the diablo 3 game client you will be logging into the realm servers which are the closest to you (latency wise)
Blizzard does not own their own data centers, they lease data center space from AT&T in san francisco, virginia, colorado, dallas and Virginia which has multiple 10gigabit links between DC's that are mux'd via dwdm onto AT&T's fiber infrastructure.
As far as the game servers go and how the platform is build, It is quite possible d3 was built on a database engine similar to hbase which rides on top of a multi-datacenter distributed file system for speed and redundancy.
I was just answering the question based on what he asked. DII's US West, US East, Asia, and Europe is the same as DIII's US, Asia, and Europe.
How much does that cost them per month?
the three main servers are:
Americas (North America, Latin America, Australia, South East Asia)
Europe
Asia (South Korea, Hingkong)