World of Warcraft Forever's Launch Was Running on Over 200,000 Gigabytes of RAM

World of Warcraft Forever launched last night, and while there were a ton of people playing, the servers were remarkably stable . It turns out that Blizzard dedicated a ton of resources to making sure those servers were solid. Last night, after the game launched, Blizzard tweeted out a meme from its World of Warcraft account, with a Gnome tapping a car with the WoW Forever logo, with a caption saying: "*Slaps Roof of WoW: Forever* This baby is running on: 3,924 Virtual Machines, 251,136 GB of Memory, 70,480 CPU Cores." That's a huge amount of memory, and it seems…
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