Blizzard Rumored To Have Bought 1500 New Servers
by Christopher Linton 
Feb 9th 2006 at 10:31AM
Rahul Sood, President of VoodooPC, has rumored that Blizzard
just purchased over 1500 new Opteron servers. If they did so, it is likely that they will be used in conjunction with
the release of the Burning Crusade expansion. Now I really know nothing about servers, but according to the hype, these
bad boys are "the business". It's exciting to see Blizzard making such a large investment in the future of
WoW, and hopefully these new servers will make a noticeable difference.Filed under: News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mat Feb 9th 2006 11:24AM
I imagine they're quite a good account for colocation facilities to land :)
You have to figure if they're buying 1500 at a time that they have to have at least two to three times that already... That's a lot of computing!
Jim Feb 9th 2006 10:23PM
Well i sure hope they are for WOW, god knows it needs something. But the article mentioned that they might possibly be for something up and coming... has everyone forgot about their next push? Starcraft: Ghost Recon. I know it has multiplayer capabilities.
the Brightside Feb 9th 2006 10:31PM
I'm with #2--I sure as hell hope it's for WoW. Hakkar, a "new" PvP server, has bad queues and crashes pretty much constantly. (Though maybe this is just an outlet for all those who can't make alts on the blocked servers, so they come to others, but still.) With their rate of expansion and the ever-declining QoS, they'll need the juice to get the game back to semi-enjoyable.