New server

Hello,

The last few days we had a really frustrating lag issue. We did our best to the lagg, but we did not succeed. Although we have decreased the amount of lag in greater or lesser extent, it was not possible to get it back to normal. Some of you noticed that Addons could be the problem because they request data from the server, but unfortunately appearances are deceptive. The Addons tell you that it is gathering data from the server, but it doesn’t say which one. Our server does not allow/support data requests that are not certified by the server itself. Let me put it this way, the server asks for data and your client gives it back, all the other data that gets received will be blocked or get lost in void.

The issue will most probably, as you might have guessed yourself, lie within the new patch. Although you mostly won’t notice it, every patch and update bring new features with them to improve stability or to keep up with retail. We think that one of those new features requires more dataflow, and that doesn’t have to be a real issue, but when one of the hardware pieces form a so called ‘bottleneck’ it is. One our hardware pieces can only support a certain amount of traffic. The remaining traffic gets written into a buffer and, because the data comes in faster than it gets processed, that buffer gets filled up real quick with lin-game lagg as result. A logic solution would be replacing that piece of hardware, but that would be turn out to be quiet expensive. A cheaper and better option was switching to a whole new server (which was inevitable anyway), which is supposed to be up this week..

Well, this was all the news we can give for now, but we will keep you informed here or on our chat.

Cheers,
Ethan & Stefan-