Frontiers Servers down?

Asmara

Asmara
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Any more details about the servers that are down and the reasons? Must be severe when they shutdown and patch in mainstream time on sunday :/..
 

AlSki

AlSki
Cmdr Travers said:
Several people have said it's clear what the problem is. Frontier host ED on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which of course has lots of different tiers depending on how much capacity is needed. Frontier very clearly underestimated (by a country mile) how many players would want to try the new PowerPlay and / or the Mandalay on top of how many people would be playing anyway, and the AWS servers couldn't be scaled up quickly enough. Thus, as is always the case when too many requests are made of a server that cannot process them all, they all fail and the server crashes. 😒 ED Ascendancy is quite literally a victim of its own success.
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I don't think your assumption is right here, your scenario would lead to connection and disconnection at random (i.e. if you got a connection to AWS or not). It might be a symptom of the problem, but AWS is supposed to scale, you choose what you think is your expected load and get the optimal price at that load, but if need more you just pay more per instance.

More likely is that this is an accumulation of whatever has been leading to the large carrier jump times, and the slow hyperspace times. What's particularly interesting from my point of view is that kicked off during a period of low load (i.e. early sunday AM GMT) following what would have probably been peak time (Sat EMEA evening with AMRS afternoon). It's more likely to be something cumulative, like a failure to release memory or to defer a process off thread (maybe the new Power play system summaries?).

Without the code or load information, we are just guessing. It's not clear at all.
 
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