{"id":56638,"date":"2013-07-25T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T08:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56638"},"modified":"2013-07-25T10:47:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T08:47:54","slug":"new-sa-dota-2-server-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/56638-new-sa-dota-2-server-added","title":{"rendered":"New SA Dota 2 server added"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mweb has added a new Gauteng server dedicated for Valve\u2019s MOBA phenomenon, Dota 2.<\/p>\n

This brings up the server count to 3 within the province, giving SA gamers fair infrastructure to put their heroes head-to-head.<\/p>\n

The server, which sports 128GB of RAM and 12 cores clocking at 3GHz, sits in the Mweb data centre in Johannesburg and was handed over to Valve for administration.<\/p>\n

This server, coupled with the 2 servers in the Cape Town data centre, should result in an improved response times for gamers in South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy observing the careful and constant monitoring and tweaking by Valve, we have noted that the servers appear to run at peak performance with an average 60 game instances per physical server,\u201d said Mweb. \u201cSo, 60 game instances across 3 servers would provide a combined capacity for 180 game instances. With 10 players in a game, 180 instances should give the region a capacity for 1,800 players gaming at the same time (concurrent users).\u201d<\/p>\n

Mweb also elaborated, saying that there have been 1,314 local connections to the server during the course of 24 hours, but international players have also jumped on to the SA server, possibly due to the lack of servers in their respective regions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been in contact with Valve to see if there is anything that can be done to give priority to gamers in the immediate region with respect to match making and server allocations,\u201d said Mweb. \u201cAs we don\u2019t manage these servers directly, we are reliant on the support of the Valve administrators. We can however assure gamers that Valve are highly attentive and our experience has been that they are committed to making the servers work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dota 2 Gauteng server load<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: Mweb<\/a><\/h6>\n

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