Discussion: North American Server Unavailability - July 27th to July 29th, 2010
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Posted on: 2010-07-26 24:25 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
All DAY Thursday? That must be some maintenance! Kinda wish that wasn't my only day off this week.
Holy 12 hour maintenance, Batman!
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When you say "All Servers", does that include beta servers?
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Whoa. That's a heck of a lot of maintenance. I am a little confused as to why there's a discussion thread about it, though.
Sounds like major hardware maintenance. Considering the backups they are making the previous two days I'm guessing updating the RAID disk arrays and server board upgrades.
Either that or they are going to be going though a lot of can air and give the servers a good cleaning.
Got to prep for the influx of GR players.
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Originally Posted by Psychoti
Whoa. That's a heck of a lot of maintenance. I am a little confused as to why there's a discussion thread about it, though.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
All the devs are going to be playing Starcraft II?
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I am trying to remember them doing anything like this in the 6+ years I've been playing this game... but coming up blank.
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I really hope this doesn't involve a gigantic update after the downtime.
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Figures this would have to happen on my Birthday :P
Good thing I wasn't planning on taking the day off from work to stay home and play.
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Don't suppose any Red Names feel like sharing with us what the (unprecedented?) 12 hour maintenance means for the server farm ... so we can feel good about it ... do they? I'd like to have an actual reason to NOT reach for the DOOOOOOOOOOM!!!(tm) button if there's one available.
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The servers were down for like two days right before CoV came out. I'm guessing this is something similar, getting ready for GR.
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Originally Posted by JayboH
Ok, that made me spit my milk.
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My theory is this:
They are prepping the servers for Going Rogue, not just for the influx of potential new/returning players but also to set up the "pre-download" of the GR art assets much like they do for Issue releases; when you log out, you get an immediate download of the majority of the code needed for the next Issue so that when it goes live, you only have a much smaller patch to download instead of a huge one thus clogging the patch server.
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I think it might be something to with something in August.
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Originally Posted by Redlynne
Don't suppose any Red Names feel like sharing with us what the (unprecedented?) 12 hour maintenance means for the server farm ... so we can feel good about it ... do they? I'd like to have an actual reason to NOT reach for the DOOOOOOOOOOM!!!(tm) button if there's one available.
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Possible reasons?
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
All the devs are going to be playing Starcraft II?
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
They need to harvest our salty tears.
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My guess though would be server side work that needs doing before loading GR to the live servers. It probably has to happen some time anyways.
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You are aware that 16 hours of downtime, assuming an even distribution of money paid across every second in the 30 days, comes out to 33 cents, assuming you pay month-by-month. You can't even buy a pack of gum for that.
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Originally Posted by GPBunny
Just want to know, are we getting our time credited back to our subscription?
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Originally Posted by Back Alley Brawler
Did you just use "casual gamer" and "purpled-out warshade" in the same sentence?
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I really hope that the lag and chronic mapserv's on the servers gets a lot better after this. It's only been getting worse since issue 17 and I've got a hunch that we are in need of some major maintenance.|
Originally Posted by Mystic_Fortune
Holy 12 hour maintenance, Batman!
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Originally Posted by Abraxxus
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Right, which is why this is different. GR is weeks away. Not complaining, just saying I don't remember them ever doing something like this, since launch day of CoH.
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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
The servers were down for like two days right before CoV came out. I'm guessing this is something similar, getting ready for GR.
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Originally Posted by Psychoti
Whoa. That's a heck of a lot of maintenance. I am a little confused as to why there's a discussion thread about it, though.
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Yes you can. Pack of 5 stick wrigley's at Family Dollar is 30 cents. Since its under 50 cents there is no tax. So you can buy a pack of gum. :P
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Originally Posted by ArcticFahx
You are aware that 16 hours of downtime, assuming an even distribution of money paid across every second in the 30 days, comes out to 33 cents, assuming you pay month-by-month. You can't even buy a pack of gum for that.
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This thread is to discuss the announcement found here.
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