Why was Bravo Server moved?

SamuraiMoMo

TheBuzzer wrote: »

Since everyone ignored my post which actually explains this, I'll write a bit more...

A while ago (months and months), several of the CF servers moved to a different datacenter. This move was not announced by any GM/mod on the forums.

I know that the servers that run Bravo and Charlie have moved to the new datacenter. Alpha is still at the old one, as is Echo. Delta was still at the old one last time I checked, which was several months ago. Same deal for Foxtrot.


When I say "old" and "new" datacenters, here's what I mean...
"Old" datacenter: Q9 Networks
"New" datacenter: 3z Canada

Both datacenters are still in Toronto. Due to the way the internet works, your packets (probably) travel through a different series of routers in order to reach either datacenter. This gives you a different ping.

Of course, server locations don't matter much if there's a problem with the game server itself (software or hardware) that is causing higher pings, or if your ISP is having trouble of their own, but that's not the case 99% of the time.

Last time I checked, my ping in Bravo and Charlie is half of my ping in Alpha, simply because I have much better routing to 3z Canada.





Not exactly. This is a "gotcha" of the way CF works. The servers that run the channels are all located in the same datacenter***, most likely for low-latency access to a main database server/cluster. The actual servers that power the gameplay are located all over the world (Canada, South US, West US, UK, etc...). There are multiple gameplay servers behind each named server (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie...), and gameplay servers can be shared by multiple named servers.


[size=-3]*** They're either multiple physical servers, OR simply multiple virtual servers on one box with each assigned its own IP. The latter would make redundancy basically zero, so it's probably not that. At least I hope not [/size]


I hope this clears some things up.

How do you know this?
Have you been tracking the IP's and stalking people there in Toronto or something?

AgiriGoshiki

MoMosaysNo wrote: »

How do you know this?
Have you been tracking the IP's and stalking people there in Toronto or something?

I started logging the gameserver IPs when I play because I was confused when all of a sudden my ping dropped a huge amount in some servers but not others.