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How World of Warcraft WorksPosted 9:47am Tue Nov 20, 2007 by Tim Grube Tags: World of Warcraft, Blizzard, PC
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Have you ever wondered how Blizzard's IT team runs the World of Warcraft servers? All of us who are WoW fans know that the servers are still somewhat plagued with downtimes, bugs, and other various annoying features--but, do we continue to still play? Absolutely.

The guys over at 'How Stuff Works' dropped us a note informing us of a recent article that shows how World of Warcraft works from the client side to the server side.

A world server isn't a single server, though -- it's a collection of servers. As of 2006, Blizzard had about 9,000 servers around the world.

It's quite an interesting read. Pay them a visit and don't forget to find me in the WoW universe on the Medivh server!



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Shiva
People would need your actual name to find you : )
Reply | Posted: 10:05am Tue Nov 20, 2007

TimGrube
Shiva said:
People would need your actual name to find you : )


That's the secret. :)
Reply | Posted: 10:12am Tue Nov 20, 2007

Shiva
Quit teasing, Tim. Give your name so I can log on and beg you for gold to buy pretty robes.
Reply | Posted: 1:13pm Tue Nov 20, 2007

Anemone
Neat article. I hated WoW, but better knowing how it works is interesting for me.
Reply | Posted: 1:35pm Tue Nov 20, 2007

Shiva
Anemone said:
Neat article. I hated WoW, but better knowing how it works is interesting for me.

I'm eagerly anticipating a WoW-killer, personally. Counting down the days.
Reply | Posted: 1:53pm Tue Nov 20, 2007

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