Server providers for South-Africa

This is the first time that I can remember that I could actually do Hydra map and move out of the way of the projectiles without to much effort.

I have just done a deathless Sirus for the first time.
Every other time I have tried, I failed or died multiple times.

The LAG has trained us well ;).
Now we just need to keep the servers here.

Yeet, no need for those 1000 IQ dodge predictions anymore. Can finally do Sirus without dying :)

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Fitzy_GGG wrote:

I've increased the capacity by a fair bit now. I'll leave it like this for a week while I evaluate stability and performance.

Also, what is the best gateway to fall back to when this is not available? It's currently set to Frankfurt, but it can be changed to London or Milan if that suits more people.

Thanks so much Fitzy its amazing being able to play the game as intended :) thanks so much, I always played on London but yeah lets see what everyone else says. Again we appreciate this so so much.

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Fitzy_GGG wrote:

I've spun up some very limited testing in South Africa so we can explore the feasibility of some different options.

You can access this by typing SouthAfrica into the gateway selection box.

• There's only around 100 instances of capacity there currently.
• Don't expect it to be reliable - caveat emptor.
• We may take it down periodically or change things around.
• It's set to put new instances on Frankfurt when it's full or offline.
• This is very early/preliminary. Anything permanent (if this even happens) will be a while away, so temper your expectations.

Thank you so much for this. I understand that it's just a test etc., but just taking the time to consider options to help us, is already greatly appreciated.

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Fitzy_GGG wrote:

I've increased the capacity by a fair bit now. I'll leave it like this for a week while I evaluate stability and performance.

Also, what is the best gateway to fall back to when this is not available? It's currently set to Frankfurt, but it can be changed to London or Milan if that suits more people.

Personally I use London, but Amsterdam and Frankfurt all similar latency for me 190-210 ms

EDIT : Holy shit... just tested this... 36ms :O:O:O .. after 6 years of playing 200ms, ....... Can't wait to get of work today to put some time in to this.

Thanks you so much for this GGG, completely different game now and same as those above me said, always got the best latency/stability to the London server.

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Fitzy_GGG wrote:

I've increased the capacity by a fair bit now. I'll leave it like this for a week while I evaluate stability and performance.

Also, what is the best gateway to fall back to when this is not available? It's currently set to Frankfurt, but it can be changed to London or Milan if that suits more people.

Although Milan seem geographically closer (Is it? I'm bad at maps) I think most people would probably opt for London as a fallback. I know I get the lowest latency to Ireland/London in most games, though that's just my experience others may have it different.

Still doesn't come close the awesome local server! Thanks!

Also the local server is super stable, haven't had any weird jolts or anything of the sort, and rocking sub 10ms at times (close to Johannesburg here), I am rolling a fiber connection though, so maybe others' mileage may vary.

Think usage may peak over the weekend, will be interesting to see how it handles things then.

Below is the WACS (West Africa Cable System)



Here is a map of all cables, but you get the idea, seems most terminate in the UK.

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Fitzy_GGG wrote:

I've increased the capacity by a fair bit now. I'll leave it like this for a week while I evaluate stability and performance.

Also, what is the best gateway to fall back to when this is not available? It's currently set to Frankfurt, but it can be changed to London or Milan if that suits more people.

Thank you! London should be the best fall back in most cases.

I agree that London is the best fallback.

Just wanted to add that I have been playing a fair amount of hours on the local servers and have only great things to say about that. I really hope that this becomes a permanent feature.