I think I'm wrong but I'm imagining you made Ultros from FFVI in FFXIV and now I want to see it.
All the servers in FFXIV are named after things in Final Fantasy. Ultros is a popular server for GAF players since the GAF Free Company resides there.
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its just a really populated server normally. But since PSN is down it kills about half the active players lol. So the server is congested enough and new players can make characters on those servers.