Successful application of Inspur server to Shanghai Shanda game website

User background

Following the rapid popularization of Internet and core broadband net, online entertainment was gradually accepted by many consumers, and as the core part of the website construction, the server stocks and computes 70% to 80% resources of the website, its working capability decides the service quality that is provided to users by the website to a great extent.

During the construction of game website, in order to obtain a system that has high performance, high reliability, and expandability and is easily managed, normally there are two basic plans when selecting the server type. One plan is to adopt high – grade server and meet the application demand of high load and multi – processing by improving the installation of single server such as supporting more processors, bigger internal and external storage, and high I/O broadband. The other plan is to adopt several moderately installed servers and increase the utilization ratio of the system by utilizing balanced load to ensure that the website makes response to the speed and service quality demanded by customer terminal. Shanghai Shanda Network Co., Ltd. mainly adopted the latter, i.e. to set up a large game network by server cluster technology.

In the vigorous construction of game networks, it can be said that Shanghai Shanda Networking Co., Ltd. created a miracle. After the foundation In 1999, the business volume of the company increased at high speed and the networking games produced by the company has the biggest quantity of simultaneously online users in the world; the high network load demands highly to the servers and need more servers to support regular operation of the system.

Users’ demand

Following the immense increase of the business, Shanghai Shanda decided to upgrade the original system and adopt server products that have good quality, high function price proportion, convenient and timely service and mature application experience.

In the March of 2002, Shanghai Shanda carried out an unified test to many domestic and foreign servers. Including foreign famous brands, nearly all brands participated into the test. In the test, Shanda server performed well, not only function but also product quality was not inferior than other foreign famous brands at all. At last, Shanghai Shanda chose the Inspur server.

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System operation situation:
Since the system adopted the Inspur server to upgrade in 2002, the operation is stable and the monthly customer volume doubled. The service quality and game quality of the Shanghai Shanda game website obtained nod approval from the industry and games users. Following the continuous increase of the business, the upgrading and planning of the website became more and more clear. During the successive procurement, more than 4000 sets of products of Inspur become mature and were applied successfully in this website.