Post: #9

many years ago not every server was able to handle too much players because this was limited by the poor hardware performance, a few 50~100 players was enough to cause lag on these slow machines with slow network speed. That's why years ago many admins had to paid a lot of money (U$300+/month) on huge high tier dedicated servers with huge network speeds just to run an simple UO emulator. Many servers never had this chance so they had no other choice than survive with 50~100 players, this doesn't mean that sphere can't handle it, the problem was the hardware performance and not sphere

but today with cloud computing, an simple U$50 low entry cloud is more powerful than an U$300 dedicated server from an decade ago. So sphere can handle much more players than we think, and now with sphere 56d much faster/lightweight running on much more powerful machines, it can handle even more