The World of Avlis

Well, we found out the reason why Elysia was going down and staying down. The hard drive on that machine was caputsky... dead... gone... clicking through its last spins. That was not fun. Luckily, we had a backup computer that we were not using yet, and it had another hard drive. So there's some good news and bad news.



Bad news is that it's going to take a day or two to get Elysia's database connections back on track. We set up the extra computer to run Elysia with bare essentials, but it got too late before Silk could connect everything between the new computer and the main database server. So you'll have to deal with very little persistence on Elysia for a bit. I think you can still portal back and forth from Mythos fine.





Good news... there's lots of that. Elysia is back up. It should be up to speed. This new computer is a 900 mhz machine. Up until now Elysia has always ran on a 333 Mhz pentium. So it should be faster now.



Other good news... Because we have a few extra mhz, we are able to put up Deglos again. Remember that server? It was the southern dwarven/gnome homeland. It was brand spanking new with very few areas and no fleshing out, but it had a pretty good bar to hang out in and rent rooms. You can now get there again. I anticipate that Deglos will stay up so lon as it doesn't cause major problems for Elysia on the same machine.



More good news... That leaves us with an extra machine. But that machine has no hard drive or network card now, and very little memory. I have a piece that CuRoi sent me, and we may need another piece now. We had to canibalize some parts from the 333 mhz to get the 900 mhz up. I HAVE an extra hard drive, but it's only 2 gigs. Still its' enough to run windows and maybe one server.... BUT, if anyone has a 10 gig or even a 4 gig hard drive that they are not using, and they want to get rid of it, send me a PM and I'll gladly give you an address to take it off your hands. If we got this 333 mhz running again, we would definitely be able to keep Deglos up forever, and we may even be able to sneak in the beginnings of the Kurathene when the workload lessens a bit.





So that's the situation... looking up, I would say, at the moment. 'course if you'all'd buy the t-shirts and stuff that we had online, we would have no need of piecing together crappy little computers that can barely squeak by. We'd just build new ones like the one we built for Mikona/Wilderness.... hey