I got an e-mail from Brandon Miller, CEO/President of Branzone about how the PGN servers are stressing out the Branzone dedicated servers that host them. He told me that they would not be able to run the PGN game servers at 512fps because of the stress it’s putting in the Branzone dedicated servers. He then asked me if I would still like Branzone to sponsor PGN and if it’s still a ‘Yes’, then they would run the servers at the normal 128fps performance level instead of the more optimized 512fps performance level game servers.
I promptly replied that I was actually thinking of asking them to do those changes for me. This is because I really don’t see any huge advantage in running a 128fps server versus a 512fps server. It is after all…a public server. So I told him to just change all the current PGN game servers to 128fps. I doubt it would affect our rank, let alone the vast amount of player overflow we get.
It got me thinking though that maybe I should off on the other servers from Branzone. I was going to ask them about expanding to Texas, Virginia, Georgia, New York, and London…so I’ll probably wait until May. I could also try to find another game server sponsor to cover areas that Branzone can’t cover yet. To add, I was about to ask Branzone if they could give me control over the Texas server which sits at 20/20 right now and is basically…a ghost server. No one even plays there at all, let along joining it. Of course I will have to ask them nicely to convert it to a 32 slot server. I think it’s running at 512fps right now, so I’ll also ask them to change it to 128fps to save them some money.
So yeah, looks like the big expansion has been put to hold one more time. Hopefully things work out well in the future. I still have faith in Branzone, if you look at their website…they basically get a lot of new customers everyday. This should just be a temporary hold…hopefully.
