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Originally Posted by photon
Unless they're willing to way over-provision I think this'll always be the way of it with highly anticipated franchises. People taking days off work just to play on day 1, the load is going to be many many times what a "regular" load is. So either you just try and muck through it, or over-provision so you can handle 10 times your usual user load just so you don't get this for the first few days.
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I totally understand this argument and I haven't been angry or anything like that. But with the way internet architecture is these days couldn't they have rented a whole swath of backup servers for a week? Or would the work involved in something like that not be cost effective? Everybody is talking as if they would have had to buy all of those servers and eat years of extra overhead, rather than a short period of lease fees. Is that really how it works?