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Originally Posted by ShaolinFlame
That's quite interesting, and makes a lot of sense.
I take it that the industry of server hosting is still rather decentralized and hodgepodge, so not a lot of companies have that volume of hardware available, let alone more business to run off them after? Why not go through 5, 10, 20, or 50?
I'm just thinking with the sheer volume of servers sitting in warehouses everywhere it should be possible. The unorganized state of the industries hardware side is the culprit. There must be a better way to efficiently act on this massive influx of information (although screaming 'buy more servers and single player1111!!!one' in allcaps on blizzards website is probably not it).
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The image that is deployed is almost certainly built for a specific set of hardware, for optimization and performance reasons, so I think you kind of answer your own question with your second point.
This isn't like running a Windows 2008 Server on the the Amazon Cloud to handle your files and emails.