Test Realms Up, Live Realms Down
by Elizabeth Harper 
May 23rd 2006 at 3:00PM
We know that Blizzard is upgrading their authentication hardware today (which seems to be running a bit late, though there's no official word on status), but I am a little confused as to how the test realms are up and all the live realms not. Login to the live realms is painless, but there's not a single realm showing as available to play on. The test realms all appear to be up (as of the time of this writing), but with a bit of a queue and massive crowding in the Eastern Plaguelands as everyone heads in for a glimpse of Naxxramas. However, the fact that login is possible seems to suggest that the delay we're experiencing isn't caused by authentication problems...Filed under: Realm News, Realm Status
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kovah May 26th 2006 3:16AM
Blizzard copies the login server from the live server over to the test server. The test server runs on it's own hardware, and own server cluster I would guess.
Seeing as this is the reason you can't change your password two weeks before the test opens, because they copy the login server then. They do another copy at a later date.
Might not be true, but would seem plausible.