A huge shout out is owed to the PlayStation Network engineers who kept us playing happily over the holidays. While it’s been a while since Sony’s servers faced any serious outages, it’s always worth remembering that for some unlucky technicians, Christmas is the most challenging period of the year. With new PlayStation 5 consoles being connected, a massive January sale, and lots of people off work, there’s no doubt that PSN will have been hammered this past week. The fact that everything stayed online is a testament to all the work going on behind-the-scenes.
There was a period, at the beginning of the PlayStation 4 era, where the Japanese giant simply couldn’t cope with all the demand, and its PSN services went offline frequently. These days that’s a rarity, and while there are scattered moments of downtime like with any online-based service, the company is very quick to respond. So, a tip of the hat to all those who kept us playing without any obstacles this holiday – we’ve had a blast!
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Pardon my ignorance but it’s either working or it isn’t, at which point they need to get busy, no? Like, do the engineers have to run in hamster wheels to keep it ticking over?
@kyleforrester87 Nah, there'll be a lot that goes on behind the scenes to manage and prepare for the spike in traffic.
I know @antdickens historically had to do lots of preparation work before E3 on the sites, for example.
Great, now I got “Stayin’ Alive“ stuck in my head.
Although Sky’s internet mysteriously went down the day that Amazon had the football so I couldn’t get on PSN anyway 😒
@get2sammyb yeah I can understand that, I guess the key is in the preparation then.
Here in the Netherlands the store almost did not work for a full day at the start of the Christmas sales. It was in forum topics here and everyone had it. It did not load the sales and games. Not a big problem because downloading games is more important, but just to indicate it did not all go well.
@Kienda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmUXntGlqFI
Just to mix it up a bit
I'd say the most prominent culprits were the "never in stock" PS5 and a "sale" where the storefront has less functionality than an '80s Yugo than anything else .
@kyleforrester87
lol
I still remember the days of us writing about PSN outages here on the site! Felt like we did that every other week.
when are they announcing the January lineup for ps plus and ps now ??
@ShogunRok it used to happen once and you’d do like 8 articles
IM JOKING IM JOKING RELAX JEEZ
Banning @kyleforrester87, the final tragedy of 2020.
@Total_Weirdo I heard azure server deals is only for streaming psnow games.
@Total_Weirdo they are not using azure servers
PSN use Amazon web servers
The agreement with microsoft is for ps now
Anyone remember when the console servers were shut down on christmas due to some lizard hackers?
@ShogunRok
I remember the PS3 days. PSN issues were daily. Then the big one happened.
But eh, it was a free service.
shudders at the memories
@TheRedComet True, at least Sony seems to reinvest the money it makes from PS Plus these days.
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