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Didz

The Ravensoft master server was online today briefly. Their new system appears to be running on Microsoft Azure, so you can expect it to be a lot more stable and scalable when they've finished implementing it properly
- January 31, 2015
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2. Grab
  
  Isthat technology changing anything in practice?
  
  February 1, 2015
3. Didz
  
  It depends how they make use of Azure's capabilities. If they're just going to stick an old-school master server implementation on a VM, it's going to be the same. But if they are creating a new implementation that's built to use the cloud's auto-scaling and distributed storage abilities, then it'll be vastly improved under-the-hood.
  
  I don't think it'll make a noticable difference from a player's perspective though, it just sends a list of server...
  
  February 2, 2015
4. Didz
  
  ...s, same is it always has done. You shouldn't see it going down due to DDoS attacks anymore, if they do it right. I'd love to share some code/architecture review insight with them, I've spent too many years procrastinating about master servers!
  
  February 2, 2015