Turbine Servers Moving to New Datacenter

Following a less-than-popular datacenter transfer last year, Turbine has once again begun migrating all of their game servers to a new home. Let’s hope this finally fixes the lag we’ve been dealing with in Dungeons & Dragons Online:

In the fourth quarter of 2008, we relocated DDO, Asheron’s Call, and some of our websites to a new datacenter. Our commitment to quality requires us to relentlessly evaluate our strategies for their effectiveness. Unfortunately, the move did not result in the level of service that we expected. That means we have to make a change in order to achieve our goal of maintaining the best game environment in the world.

On Monday we are relocating to a new datacenter that will provide the level of service and redundancy that we and you expect. This physical relocation is a huge undertaking that will unavoidably result in a significant downtime for DDO and AC players, as well as for the users of some of our websites. We apologize for the downtime, and are confident that this relocation will provide the performance and reliability that has been a standard of Turbine during our nearly 10 year history of operating quality games.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this move, and are looking forward to delivering a much improved experience for all players.

The servers should be up later today.