Who hosts COD servers?

[bbursley]

I’m currently ISP shopping, as I’m not entirely happy with my current one. I was curious to know who hosts the COD servers. Would it be AWS? I’m trying to check each ISPs BGP and see how their peering works, to make sure peering is as optimal as possible.

I have been thinking about this a lot more recently when looking at people who have tier 1 ISPs like ATT and how they are able to achieve such great success in the hit detection department, and my assumption is just better peering with the cod servers, or better peering agreements than perhaps someone else’s ISP. Which must be entirely why some people experience those wtf moments, even if they too have fiber and low ping. 

Just a random late night thought. Thanks. 

[Netduma Fraser]

I don't have exact specifics for you and they don't use one server provider exclusively, from what I have seen they have been known to use:

• AWS
• Vultr
• i3D

[bbursley]

2 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

I don't have exact specifics for you and they don't use one server provider exclusively, from what I have seen they have been known to use:

• AWS
• Vultr
• i3D

Ah okay. Seems like the AWS peering is likely the best, whereas the others are likely not as great. I’m assuming if you have close proximity to them, with fiber, it probably not bad. My current ISP hops over to another tier 1 to get to them though, which is likely why my experience isn’t as good as some.

Other random thought. Let’s say I pay for a DIA/Enterprise line over a residential line. Are my packets likely to be more prioritized under those two types of connections compared to residential? I spoke with a local ISP that does Ethernet over fiber enterprise lines, for businesses of all sizes and bandwidth requirements, I’m assuming my connection for work and also (gaming of course) would likely be far superior to using a XGS-PON network structure my current ISP uses? 

[Netduma Fraser]

Just to clarify, would they be building a line in for you or using existing infrastructure? If the former then yes definitely better. If the latter, potentially but likely to still suffer some of the general pitfalls of sharing lines with others.

[bbursley]

11 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Just to clarify, would they be building a line in for you or using existing infrastructure? If the former then yes definitely better. If the latter, potentially but likely to still suffer some of the general pitfalls of sharing lines with others.

Yes, this would be a dedicated line and not a shared line. 

[Netduma Fraser]

42 minutes ago, bbursley said:

Yes, this would be a dedicated line and not a shared line. 

Yes it should be a lot better I would have thought!