Heimdallr and I returned just shortly from a trip to the new hosting facility. Talk about going through security check after check. I am sure that I have never felt as safe as I did this afternoon at the new hosting facility. The servers made it, though how well is still being worked on ^_^. The team there, yes the blue man group is there running more cable, putting rails in and latching in the servers. Our system admins did a lot of pre-emptive work to help speed up the process, and yes we are still in a waiting mode.
Servers landed and are currently being put in, once they are put in then all the plugging in for power and network starts. Once all that is go, then some testing of the network there and as quickly but slowly each network is brought back online for our own testing before we can release them into the wild. What I can tell you is that we are still a few hours away from our own testing being done and once we are to that stage Heimdallr or myself will keep you posted.
I do have pictures, but due to security responsibilities they asked that they approve the pictures before we post anything. They understandably have a lot of clients that do hosting with them and out of respect for their request we wait until tomorrow to show you pictures of the game servers new home.
Well, as long as you guys are doing your best I guess I can wait a little longer to have RO back!
I’m crossing my fingers for sometime early tomorrow…
::hint hint::
Go guys! More power. ^^
I still say you should have made a hostage photo starring the servers and Heim holding up a copy of today’s paper. Both are held captive at Soldering-Iron point…
Woop! Hopefully things go as planned and everything stays on schedule. Can’t wait to see the pics!
Hey so its 11:25 where i stay in Florida right now..i was wondering what time is it over there? Where the move is
Sorry, i know u all putting so much effort.
But can show or uppost some notice when the
necessary time that server to be open for us? So at least we won’t sit down there and just wait, wait and wait .. .. .. ..Thank you.
yes,i agre with infinity, im not being pushy or anything..by all means take all the time you guys need 2 get everything right and situated and i wish luck for more speed but is there any specific time or around wat time do you guys expect 2 be finished??? i wanna play..lol
Nice, I live 5 miles from the new servers!
Orange Chicken!!!! Omg Panda Express Time. thanks now im hungry again.
Google Maps Street And Satellite view are your friend *hinthint* xD
I bet you had a fun time with security, reading about that coresite site, they pretty much say it exceeds even the stingiest security measures lol. hf getting to it to yell at the log in server.
Sweeeeeett :)))
woot!!! gogogogo! do what you guys do best, just dont screw anything up lol
The window of time that we established to allow for reasonable unexpected problems was 6am Wednesday to noon Thursday.
Currently we are doing well with that schedule, a few reasonable hiccups of course occurred but nothing earth shattering.
If you are curious each rack you saw in the earlier photos is more or less 1 game world, or a set of servers that handle logging, and db stuff. Each one will get powered on and full checked at the IDC, once all clear that initial diagnostics then the games will get loaded into memory (just like every maintenance). Then the GM team and admin staff will do ALOT of thorough testing before we open it up.
Servers like these even when brand new are not designed to do moving around. There is a reason racks are bolted into concrete and the servers hardwired, grounded and bolted into their racks. They like sitting in rooms for years and left alone, we forced them to get out of bed, so now we have to deal with any crankiness that ensues from that.
I don’t expect players to be able to access the servers for at LEAST 3 more hours we aren’t even GM testing yet.
Well, that’s a lot hardwork i can imagine that. Messy wired, dust etc… Unfortunately, waiting until then game server smooth likely need another 5-6 hours time. Means maybe i just can started the game in the midnite(Malaysia). Hope everythings fine.
Thank you so much u all.