Increasing BGA service capacity [UPDATE]

[DarkPendula]

You guys are doing great! Even though i experience problems with my friend being disconnected from the server at max capacity of 30.000 players, you have done so much for all the players increasing the servers and changing the core of the system to make all this possible.

I wish you the best and would love to hear from you later with an update on the massive amount of effort you are putting in!

[sourisdudesert]

UPDATE April 13th: new service capacity is now 35.000 simultaneous players.

[asd123321]

Hitting Start, it can be very slow to get going and some people quit. Then it is OK if it starts.

[sourisdudesert]

UPDATE: April 17th: the service capacity is now 37.000 simultaneous players.

Forum server has also been upgraded as it was too slow at peak hour.

Note: except during the week-ends at peak hour, BGA now manages to accept all of you without restrictions

[Daffie_1998]

Hi guys,

That's great, 37.000 simultaneous players, unbelievable.
You upgrade the capacity by a factor of 10 in only 2 month.

Regards, Daffie.

[Sandoval]

Have you looked into Cloud solutions to allow easy scaling based on the demand, maybe?

[sourisdudesert]

UPDATE: April 25th, the service capacity is 43.000 players

Have you looked into Cloud solutions to allow easy scaling based on the demand, maybe?

Well, we multiplied the service capacity by 10 so obviously it scales already

Note: The first post of this thread explains our approach and answer this question in details.

[Sandoval]

Note: The first post of this thread explains our approach and answer this question in details.

It didn't mention anything in the direction of my question, hence I asked. You'd be able to scale more easily than having to count and provision servers by going cloud-based as far as I understand it. But I don't want to suggest how you run things, just wanted to know if you maybe entertained the thought.

[sourisdudesert]

UPDATE: May 1th: Board Game Arena capacity is now 52.000 players.

[Solpr1ns]

Wouw - you guys are amazing. Great job expanding your capacity to 52.000 players.

Thank you so much for this platform where I can enjoy playing games with my friends and random people 24/7/365. You guys ROCK!!!