UK PS servers

[ScOpEH]

Anyone heard any news about UK servers? There was apparently gonna be one in the telehouse.. dunno if they will be up tho.

I got a despatch email from Game yestarday, for planetside.. and its on courier delivery.. wonder if it will come today :o

$cOpEH

[Wizzo]

There are no plans at present. Although we are talking to SOE :)

[ScOpEH]

oo an MPUK Planetside server.. now that would rock :)

[Catachan]

I doubt MPUK would run the server. The amount of bandwidth involved would mean stupidly high overheads for a server farm. SOE run their own servers for all their MMO games.

I think Wizzo means he's talking with SOE to persuade them (although correct me if I'm wrong). I know there's a server farm planned in Amsterdam for Europe, and there was talk by the developers to have a server farm in the UK eventually.

[ScOpEH]

ah okie dokie,

[Wizzo]

Cata we have over 100 Mbps of bandy available. Think that's enough? A large number of ISPs don't have that :)

[ScOpEH]

i thought you needed to share the load over several servers dont you? that would rock if you could

[Chicane]

u keep that in a cupboard? :p:

is that per year or month then wizzo?

[bvark]

100Mbps for a full Sony gaming cluster is too little by about an order of magnitude, and IIRC they were wanting their own suite (at least in the US).

I read on one site the PS EU server was going to be in Amsterdam (but on another it would be London).

I can't think of too many Telehouse hosting ISPs that *don't* have 100Mbit :-)

[Wizzo]

hehe who said a whole cluster? :)

We are trying to persuade them of course tho. Having said that... conns to the Netherlands aren't too bad from the UK.

Oh and we know we're not alone >100 Mbps in telehouse. Christ most of the ISPs in there just run CAT5 to each other. When the need arises I'm sure we'll go up to a 1000 Mbps conn to linx in addition to the current peering.

[Catachan]

The devs said they would start with one in Amsterdam, and then follow on with one in the UK.

[Wizzo]

yeah the first one is in NL. We're trying to get it along to i16 atm. It's taking a bit tho ;)