as of 0500 GMT the server is fully operational.
Regards,
Elois

ahh, my bad.  I was thinking of first person shooter.  Well I know the server went down about an hour before this last time, so they were working on it somewhat recently before the hurrah.

Hello,
  I know all of the "before you post about the server being down stuff", so no need to remind me.  Since an hour ago, I lost my connection to the server, and have not been able to reconnect.  Each attempt draws a "failed" response.  However the server page shows the server to be running, the time is updating correctly, although it seems to be locked at displaying 81 players online, and has not changed.  Since no info about this was provided from the devs, I assume this is not intended or part of regular maintenance.  I'm also aware of the recent upgrade.  Since the server isn't just showing an "offline" response, I thought it appropriate to start a new thread, since this is a little different than the usual offline problems.  Lets discuss .

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The server is now fully operational.  My thanks to the devs.
Regards,
Elois

* Taniquetil suggests topic to be locked.

Actually, that might not be a good idea as people will probably start new threads about this if this thread is closed...

Also, i think Xordan is the 'main man' in this update seeing as he is the hardware guy. And he is right here starting the topic and posting in it.

Elois, that comment wasn't aimed at you, personally, just everyone.

So, to not be hypocritical, i will leave this topic

I don't know what extent he plays in this update, since he's based in the UK, and the server is in Singapore.  That isn't to say he's not working on it, in contact w/ those that are working on it, or that discussion w/ him isn't making the update take longer.  I'm merely saying, that I assume that since he's based in the UK, discussion w/ him, or any dev not working on the update, shouldn't be an issue, i assume this from a logical inference.  Besides, the vast majority of discussion has been amongst community members.

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yikes, just looked at the first post again, we are now up to a day of downtime from 4 hours ago.  I'm not complaining.  And i'm grateful to the devs.  Probably the update took longer than expected, and now they have to try to schedule more time out of their lives to complete the update.  Take your time guys, put it up when you can, but your lives have to take precedence.
Regards,
Elois

It's a bit more complicated than 'an hour here, an hour there' We have many gb's of data to transfer, convert, import etc. Most of it is done, we just need to sort out the last few things and get the DNS updated. Plus as usual there's a limited number of people with access to work on it, and when they sleep everything stops.

  Oh, I wasn't trying to imply that it should be done yet.  I was saying that there must be many steps in the update.  I listed the obvious ones, but was curious about the not so obvious ones.
Regards,
Elois

hardware

hardware may not even be an issue, but then again, it might.  we are at nearly 8 hours now, (for those that can't subtract  ).  Take your time guys, maintenance is appreciated, and we look forward to enjoying your hardwork.

FYI: If you hover your mouse over the dots, you'll see their description :]

ahh, well I guess it doesn't need updating.  Btw, where is your avatar from?

The superclient is what you've been calling the "NPC server" (which isn't actually a server to begin with).  Another name for it is npcclient, but I've always called it superclient.  It's called that because it's like 300 or so psclients connecting to one machine, handling the NPC AI.

So the server is the machine, and the super client is the software?  If that is what you are saying, then that is what I assumed a long time ago.  But then you posted that you thought that i was saying having the super client on a different machine other than the server, which confuses the heck out of me.  to me I understand 1 server software on 1 server.  if you have 2 servers, then each server machine has 1 installation of server software, and then they communicate to each other updating player info.  I'm not sure why you thought i was saying that the server software should be anywhere other than on the server.  I still may be not fully understanding what you are saying, if it appears that I'm not, could you please clarify?
Regards

PS
Also, the NPC serer seems to need to be periodically reset.  I have on many occassions been fighting a character and all of a sudden it becomes impervious.   I think the program is getting confused about who is engaged in battle with the NPC, and thus makes it impervious.  I'm not sure what the devs do to fix this (since they have many times), but I assumed a restart.  Maybe they just flush a data cache or something?  If that';s what they do, then maybe a periodic flush at low usage times might be good too?  Again I'm making an assumption ti use as a device to show my line of thinking.
Regards

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PSS
@tuxide
Just re-read some things here.  Just to make sure we are on the same page, the NPC server, and the Plane shift server (that we connect to) are in different countries.  I was saying that we should have 2 NPC servers (2 machines each w/ NPC software installed), and 2 Plane Shift Servers (2 machines that each have server software installed).  I never understood why we had 2 different servers handling the NPC's and the players, but that is beyond the scope of this discussion anyways.
Regards