Server down for maintenance - April 27, 2008

[SlanePhift]

This is certainly an interesting game.  I for one don't mind when it must be taken taken for maintenance, updates, or other additions.  The testing of new features or protocols requiring reboots and tweaking is also fine. javascript:void(0);
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The quest system takes some getting used to.  Granted I've not been playing very long.  I often am stumped with what the NPC is looking for.

[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

[Taniquetil]

I would humbly submit that it would be better not to ask questions of the devs and others working on this. Having them give us reasons and updates and such only makes the process longer. Besides, the purpose of this thread was to inform, not explain.

[elois]

I would humbly submit that it would be better not to ask questions of the devs and others working on this. Having them give us reasons and updates and such only makes the process longer. Besides, the purpose of this thread was to inform, not explain.

to inform and discuss, otherwise it would have been locked.  Besides, the devs that are actually doinf the update probably aren't watching the forum.  I seriously doubt all 50 devs are doing the update, since only a few actually live in that particular country.  Again, nobody is forcing the devs to do anything.  BUt i myself am perfectly happy w/ the responses.  I'm just participating in the community discussion.
Regards,
Elois

[Taniquetil]

* 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

[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

[Xordan]

Yeah, I'm not doing any of the updating. I'm just sitting around doing nothing waiting for it to be finished off by the powers that be. Everything is done remotely from this point, so the guys (Fragnetics) who own the server have done their part. I can't give an ETA on when it'll be done, other than saying that it *should* be open to players by midnight tonight (GMT). Not having people working on it 24/7 is the main slowdown, there haven't been any issues so far (your characters are all safe and sound ).

[LuxInTenebris]

Aaah, I haven't been this excited about a game in quite a while
Went to bed at 1:30. Wake up at 7:00 after dreaming about game...
...but the server is still down. Alas! Alas!

[citizen]

Aaah, I haven't been this excited about a game in quite a while
Went to bed at 1:30. Wake up at 7:00 after dreaming about game...
...but the server is still down. Alas! Alas!

Be patient. Server downtenancies usually take time

[SlanePhift]

Happy happy!  Joy joy!

[elois]

ok, so around 6 hours and counting.  unless it takes longer, which is fine too

[Xordan]

I'll leak the new specs to give you something to read while you wait

2x Dual Core Xeon 3.0ghz (4 logical)
2GB ram
320gb WD RE2
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS

A rather significant improvement over the old one

[Lanarel]

I'll leak the new specs to give you something to read while you wait

2x Dual Core Xeon 3.0ghz (4 logical)
2GB ram
320gb WD RE2
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS

A rather significant improvement over the old one

That used to be:
Server Specs:

    * Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz
    * Intel S845WD1-E Motherboard
    * 1GB ECC Kingston PC2100 DDR-SDRAM
    * 2x 80GB 7200rpm IDE Harddisks
    * Running on Fedora Core 4

Does that mean we will find bugs twice as fast now?
Anyway, many thanks to Fragnetics I guess, for the upgrade!

[Prolix]

Why Ubuntu? I do know Fedora 8 has cause a good deal of problems for some people and am not recommending it but I am curious given how many people have had problems with the client in Ubuntu. Are you planning on creating a .deb file for the client now? I suppose that has little to do with the server though.

Hmm Long Term Support (LTS) might have something to do with it...

[Leonodm]

  so when is the server comeing back online?