Server status
Every number here was measured by this site at 15 November 2026 19:20 UTC: a connection to each realm's world address, and a count of the characters that realm says are online. Nothing on this page is a figure an operator typed into a form.
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Sulfuras up
0 players online
Alliance 0 Horde 0
world port 8085
How each number is produced
- Up or down — a connection to the realm's world port, closed as soon as it is accepted. It answers "can a player reach the door", not "did a player get in": a daemon that is still loading maps accepts connections, and the count below is what tells those two apart.
- Players online — a grouped count over the realm's own character table, for rows whose online flag is set. The realm's stored "this realm is online" setting is deliberately not used: it is written once when a realm is registered and never updated, so on a status page it would be the past tense wearing the present.
- Alliance and Horde — this site's reading of each race. The character table records a race and no faction, so the split is derived here; a race this site cannot place is counted under "neither" and named, rather than handed to a side.
- Age — a measurement is reused for one minute, and a failed one for ten seconds, so a page load does not become a query against the game database. Nothing here is cached by a browser or a proxy.