Topic: What type of infrastructure is Perp running on?

Just curious -- if sharing on this subject isn't permitted, no worries, I understand.

Re: What type of infrastructure is Perp running on?

I would be interested to know what database engine they use.

Re: What type of infrastructure is Perp running on?

as a network architect I'm always fascinated by details on how games like this are run but as Glimpse said, I understand if they're not inclined to give out info at this state.

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oh you know the typical tin cans and strings.

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Re: What type of infrastructure is Perp running on?

Thufir wrote:

I would be interested to know what database engine they use.

I believe it's just a simple MySQL database, no idea of the version.

Re: What type of infrastructure is Perp running on?

that and several servers throughout hungary to host the islands (3 per server afaik), and one to host the login/chat/terminal enviroment.

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Re: What type of infrastructure is Perp running on?

Annihilator wrote:

that and several servers throughout hungary to host the islands (3 per server afaik), and one to host the login/chat/terminal enviroment.

I did notice that different islands seem to be hosted not only on different servers as you'd expect but also in different locals.
Doesn't seem to make a big difference but having multiple hosts must increase the chance of failure somewhere.