
Originally Posted by
neko_lord
No, you are just all in a tizzy because you don't follow what I said on a technical level.
I'll explain in an edit, but that will take some time to type up.
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What happens when you log in is you pass through a centralized login server farm located in their data center in California (San Diego area). From there, you are redirected to your game server. Some of those servers are also in California, but others are in Washington (Seattle area).
The San Diego data center went completely offline as far as the internet was concerned, however the Seattle data center stayed online the whole time.
Because the Seattle data center stayed online, anyone connected to the servers hosted out of Seattle were able to stay online, as the connection never was broken.
On the other hand, EVERYONE that plays on a game server hosted out of San Diego was kicked off and could not sign back on. Period. There was no connectivity to San Diego. If there is no connectivity, then people cannot stay online.
So, no connectivity to San Diego means that login servers are down. Connectivity to Seattle means that the game servers are still up. This is why you see people on ss50-series and 152/153 and some other servers talking about how people were still online, because they're hosted out of Seattle. I'd explain how I know this, but it'd take to long. If I'm wrong, I'm sure dave will correct me.
It was physically impossible for anyone to be online if their game server was located in San Diego. Thus there was nobody staying online for multiple hours with other people being able to log in. For people on San Diego-based servers, this was nothing more than an extended daily maintenance, where nobody was online.
As for Seattle, anyone on before San Diego went down was able to stay on. If they refreshed their browser though, they would be unable to sign back on, as the connection to the login servers in San Diego was broken. That's why for Seattle you have people stating that they were on, but then couldn't get back on, or Skype conversations about people still being on, etc, etc, etc...
This is why, to me, rollbacks make some sense for Seattle, but not for San Diego.
If you tell me what server you're on, I can tell you which data center your server's located at.
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