over 4 years ago - /u/trainfender - Direct link

Hello!

I said it on the last TarkovTV live podcast but I will say it again.

The game is gaining popularity really fast and I (personally) don't like how it's goings so fast, cause it requires a lot of attention in terms of game stability, server availability and so on. It also requires part of the team is working 24/7 and on the weekends, which is not cool at all. But this are the Rules of the Game and we totally understand everything.

We add new game servers like constantly every day as well as player load rises everyday. And yes - it's not related to content production at all. It just require some time. We added 5 new servers today, 4 yesterday, dozens are planned to be added in the nearest time. Also we are working hot on live environment, upgrading servers on the go and it's a pretty risky process.

Also with such HIGH load some server hardware just fails! It is pure stress test of hardware and our minds :)

So, backend and gameservers are the number one priority of backend and admin team.

Thank you for understanding!

P.S. In the rush hours try not to use custom picked servers. Use "auto" instead.

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over 4 years ago - /u/trainfender - Direct link

Originally posted by MrX101

Out of curiosity is there a specific reason you don't use services that automatically adjust the number of servers(instances) depending on the load? Are they too expensive? Or would it require you to change a big part of your infrastructure?

you described everything