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Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not 100% but 99.9%... IIRC Guild Wars 2 servers had like 1 actual outage in 11 years. They have pretty amazing structure.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fun fact, uptime goals are measured in nines -- for example, 99.9% is three nines of uptime. If that one outage lasted an entire day, and they were never down at any other time, that would indeed be three nines of uptime.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, my net admin colleagues explained that one to me a while back because the bosses were making similar uninformed demands ("this needs to never go down!" "Sure, here is how much that costs"). It was very enlightening :)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And by "never," a lot of bosses really mean, "you're working overtime if it goes down." It always comes down to cost.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Those colleagues are pretty much all quitting now, after their over time calculation has been modified because it was costing the company too much, while for other teams like mine it stayed the same. It's hilarious seeing the complete panic from the higher ups realizing how badly they fucked up. And I don't think they actually really realize...

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