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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by Thaxll on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:07PM (#16342974)
You don't use physical servers in a DC to pay the 10x peak time, it's a big waste of money, if you want to go this way you pay the minimum numbers of servers at any time and you use cloud for the rest. But again I think noways it doesn't make any sense to buy servers in DC.

You pay for hardware that you need to mange and have to be sure that you will be using it after the game launch. ( most games player base decrease by 2x just after release. )

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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by twic on Friday February 09, 2018 @04:57PM (#16344197)
> You don't use physical servers in a DC to pay the 10x peak time, it's a big waste of money

No, it's cheaper once you factor in the real performance of physical vs virtual machines.

Someone really needs to bring some actual numbers to this conversation.

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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by Thaxll on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:31AM (#16347407)
Numbers were done it's cheaper to run in the cloud nowdays, also VM ( EC2 on AWS ) have the same perf that baremetal. Have a read: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c5/
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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by twic on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:51AM (#16347505)
> VM ( EC2 on AWS ) have the same perf that baremetal

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by cthalupa on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:21PM (#16354567)
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali...

Brendan Gregg has written here and elsewhere about the performance of VMs on EC2. Worth reading if you're interested in figuring out how close it is (or isn't).

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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by ApolloFortyNine on Saturday February 10, 2018 @02:20PM (#16348988)
AWS makes $20 billion a year in revenue.

Maybe it's possible that you're wrong?

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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by twic on Saturday February 10, 2018 @07:48PM (#16350506)
That is a complete non sequitur. AWS has traditionally never been the cheapest way to rent machine power, but people don't use it because it's cheap, they use it because it's easy to get started with a wide range of facilities without dedicated sysadmins.
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