Shard Outage Tomorrow (sept 25 2011) @ ~2:00pm [cancelled]

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:22 am

As part of the new update, I will be re-organizing the file structure of the live shard to make updating more efficient. This new structuring will possibly incur some downtime, possibly several hours while files and paths are being moved around. I will make all efforts to minimize this downtime, but there are no guarantees.

The update for tonight has been cancelled due to my internet connection being too slow to upload all the files in time. I will resume tomorrow.

Currently there is also a threat of outage as if the shard restarts for any reason, it will fail to start back up due to the fact that files are half uploaded. You can continue to play as normal, there is no threat of data loss, but if the shard does go down, it will be down for hours.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 7:46 pm

About to take the shard down shortly for the update. I am currently testing a side by side run of both old and new to ensure everything works, so there may be a little bit of lag.

An in-game notice will be sent before it's restarted.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:49 pm

Windows is giving me grief and refuses to start the shard, no idea why.

I am currently trying to figure out what the best course of action to get it to execute on the live server. it's giving me some kind of error that is completely irrelevant and makes no sense. I may have to rebuild a new Windows VM from scratch but it will take a few days to upload the ISO file to the server.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:12 pm

I think I got it figured out from work, it was just bugging me so much.

Unless something else comes up, we should be good for an update tonight. There will not be any downtime, just a standard restart. The normal server restart today will not happen, I will invoke a manual one when we are ready to update. We will post an official patch note when this takes place.

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Shanks · Post by **Shanks** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:53 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:I think I got it figured out from work, it was just bugging me so much.

Unless something else comes up, we should be good for an update tonight. There will not be any downtime, just a standard restart. The normal server restart today will not happen, I will invoke a manual one when we are ready to update. We will post an official patch note when this takes place.

The excitement is killing me.

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keltrick · Post by **keltrick** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:35 pm

im gonna have a heart attack because of excitement!!!!!
the anticipation is killing me XD

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:59 pm

Update is going live in about 10 minutes!

Shard will go down for about 10-15 minutes, I will add more ram to the VM and then it will be time to pray that everything works out.

We were experiencing some heavy lag when doing some testing, but have suspicions that it may have been the fact that I was overtaxing the server having the two shards going at once.

We'll post the official patch notes once the shard is back up.

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