What We Changed Today

Hi everyone! You may have noticed that Wynncraft was down for maintenance for around 2 hours tonight. While it was down, we migrated Wynncraft to a whole new data center (again!) and made a TON of changes in the backend. We didn't change any of the features in the game, so if we did our job right you wouldn't notice this change at all (except for a smoother in game experience). However, I'd love to share some of the technical details of what we changed today!


We added A LOT of proxies

We want Wynncraft to be a great experience for everyone, regardless of where they live. However, the EU servers taught us that having a mirror of our servers in different locations was a huge headache for our dev team, which meant that we didn't have as much time to work on new features. Today, we're trying out a new approach to reduce latency for European (and Australian!) players.

Instead of having totally separated servers for different locations around the world, we're opening up new proxies around the world. This means that instead of having your computer connect all the way to our servers in Virginia, which can be slow and prone to network errors, your computer will instead connect to one of our over 300 proxies around the world. Then, the proxy will use a private connection (which is very fast and reliable) to get the traffic the rest of the way to the US.

Check out this absurd map of all the proxies that we're using. When you log in to Wynncraft, your computer will automatically find the proxy at the dot closest to your location. We're hoping that this means that no matter where you are in the world, you should be able to play Wynncraft with minimal latency and interruptions.



In our tests, this has made for enjoyable play experiences for players all over the world, even people in far away places. Please let us know how this works for you and what your latency is like.

We switched to a new data center again!

You may remember that around a month and a half ago we switched to a new datacenter for US and EU servers. Soon after we switched to the new data center in the US, we started having tons of problems with their network. Our servers would randomly lose internet connection a couple times a day, and we'd randomly have 200 players lose connection with no explanation. Plus, we heard reports that people were having trouble logging in. This wasn't acceptable for us, so we decided to look for a new data center that would be more reliable.

We switched to a new data center in Virginia and so far we're very happy with them. Every time that we have a problem, we get it resolved within 30 minutes (instead of 6+ hours with our last two hosts).

Note that we're still working on moving over services, so some stuff like the website will not be updating with data from the game for a few days.

We switched to a thing called Kubernetes!

This part is pretty technical and boring, but we moved all our services off of manually managed linux servers and onto a Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes is the same technology that companies like Google, Apple, and Reddit use to run their services. This change will give us a ton more control when we're trying to add new features, deploy changes, and debug issues. This is the most invisible part of today's update, but you should notice our network being a lot more stable and our development moving a lot faster in the future!

That's all for today! Sorry for the downtime today and I appreciate you sticking with us.