Originally Posted by
Knuffelbert
To those mentioning that there are over 2000 Servers and thus very expensive. Of course they are not all physical servers! I highly doubt that you can only run a single instance of a WoWserver on a given physical server (still, must be a lot of physical machines), most likely there are more than just a view on one, since many of them are only for a hand ful people, some probably without any players at all most of the time. I fenture a guess that they are simply servers for the developers, maybe even quest designers, to quickly deploy their build. I also doubt that all of the servers on the list are actually running, much like the realm list sometimes during mantainance where all servers are displayed as offline.