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Originally Posted by Mo_Gearhead
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I assume one company provides the servers and bandwidth where ALL this inter-action resides?
Food for thought:
Earthquake, flood, ice storm, some major disaster occurs ... electric power shuts off servers (or more likely the individuals home/office computer) for days/weeks. Are we going to see young people in the future seeking psychiatric help because their 'second life' fell apart?  |
Datacenters that house these servers are in most cases totally redundant. I worked on a project for another MMOPRG for Electronic Arts, and the same principles we use in any datcenter applied to them. We had a live syncronis replication pipe to a co-loc center, and the ability to be back on-line in a few short hours of that failed. There is big money involved here, probably even more than the financial company I work for now.