WoW server statistics, more powerful than you could possibly imagine

Posted September 18, 2009 by Kevin Pabst in News.

If this is true, WoW has around 11.5 million subscribers. When I got WoW, there was a sticker on the box touting 6 million. Oh how far it has come.

Some statistics from this article at VideoGamer.com (which it takes from Gamasutra) include:

• 13,250 server blades
• 75,000 cpu cores
• 112.5 terabytes of ram
• Patch 1.3 saw 4.7 petabytes of data sent out to players
• 1.3 petabytes of storage

I’m going to school for computer networking, and I’ve never even fathomed a network as large as this one. I mean I know that they are in place, things like WoW, Google, the internet backbone, but I’ve never seen it quantified like this. Even mentioned is televisions tuned to local weather channels, to make sure that the weather doesn’t ever impact the data center’s performance.

The only way that this could be more monumental is if Goolge and Blizzard teamed up to create a network so powerful, not even Skynet could defeat it.

All things must come to an end though, and World of Warcraft will one day be replaced. Likely by WoW2 or World of Starcraft.

Source: Gamasutra.com via Videogamer.com

Tagged as Activision Blizzard, Statistics, Technical Details, World of Warcraft