Backend Work

k9mouse

To make my Greek nature happy, I have this question:

For a General MMO server or mega server:

1) In detail, what type of "backed work" do they on maintenance days?
2) What type of database work and / or hardware work (replace / add HD's, ram, server clusters, etc)?

Would get the most detail as we can get or use another MMO as general reference how they do it.

twev

Question #1 is a 'who', not 'what' type of question, and the recipient is:
'We, the subscriber base'....

KhajitFurTrader

Never seen any enterprise-level company disclosing this kind of information with any level of detail, since it's way too sensitive, both business- and security-wise. Take a look at the server racks in the picture in the last Road Ahead article -- they don't even show the fronts of the big irons, lest someone get's lucky guessing the brand of hardware they're using. Business secrets are only secrets as long as they stay secret...

k9mouse

Yeah, I know that ZOS will never tell us how they megaserver works, but they must learn it from a text book somewhere. That text book might gives us an general idea how a "mega server" might work or a server farm like in data center.

Locnaar

twev wrote: »

Question #1 is a 'who', not 'what' type of question, and the recipient is:
'We, the subscriber base'....

...And I though I'd enjoy getting a little back end work done. Was I ever wrong

k9mouse

Can we stay on topic please? I will hate to start reporting people for jokes like yours on a real topic. Thanks

Krivasran

It's likely making sure nothing is leaking resources, testing to make sure everything is a-okay, and giving everything a flush to get rid of any issues.

k9mouse

Yeah, I know that, but the question is how? ~The devil is in the details ~

KhajitFurTrader

k9mouse wrote: »

Yeah, I know that ZOS will never tell us how they megaserver works, but they must learn it from a text book somewhere. That text book might gives us an general idea how a "mega server" might work or a server farm like in data center.

You might want to take a look at the blog Inside the Magic Shop, then. Especially this article. Any similarities to actually existing MMOs are purely coincidental.

k9mouse

Thanks for the read @KhajitFurTrader