Avlis Downtime: 10/15-10/16

PlasmaJohn · Post by **PlasmaJohn** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:36 pm

Glantry wrote:If I were Americain, I'd vote for you at the next presidential elections.

And have the not-so-gory details of my life exposed to all and sundry? Eew.
And to top it all off, I'd have to move to DC. Eew.
And everytime I'd need to boot the servers, I'd need to scramble my personal team of 20 Secret Service Agents. To walk 30'. Eew.

PlasmaJohn wrote:Hold on a sec. Blair, Avlis is down... What? No! don't launch, Don't Launch!

Meh

methuselah · Post by **methuselah** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:16 pm

Thats just awesome about the server move, I couldn't be any happier

Too bad the weekend is my prime avlis time

On a note, a server message would be nice so us weekend warriors can get a clean log before everything goes black and our desktops maximize and in one load woice in unison can be heard round the world....
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

But seriously, very cool

Manuel the White · Post by **Manuel the White** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:19 pm

If Avlis bogs down after the move, you'll kow PJ is downloading some serious pr0n.

Lilith · Post by **Lilith** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:20 pm

If I was a chick I'd seriously consider having PJ's babies

hooded_titan · Post by **hooded_titan** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:59 pm

First, let me say you couldn't pick a better time. Football game on Friday and marching competition on Saturday will mean I won't be able to even breathe on the computer!

Second, I'm American. So sorry PJ, but you got my vote just for existing! Why vote for Bush or Kerry? On the bright side, you could use federal funding for hosting Avlis! Imagine, Cray supercomputers running each module and another one running the utilities. All inside a bunker complex encased in 20-ft walls of reinforced concrete with it's own powerplant and the fastest connection possible. Along with 10,000 armed guards, tanks, german shepeards, barbed wire, land mines, walls, video survallence system, doppler radar, SAM and Anti-missle missle launchers, and to top it all off a wierd energy shield you dragged over from Area-51. So nothing can stop our playing! Oh, and the capability to put the servers on an airplane with a wireless internet connection in case there is an earthquake.

Liartes · Post by **Liartes** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:13 pm

PlasmaJohn · Post by **PlasmaJohn** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:43 am

Lilith wrote:If I was a chick I'd seriously consider having PJ's babies

Hot damn! I put on my robe and wizard hat...

Jorik Ambrose · Post by **Jorik Ambrose** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:20 am

Nice work guys!

Will be great when all is done, we all appreciate the hard work you put in!!!!!!!!!

Midknight · Post by **Midknight** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:16 am

Time for another off world vacation for a couple days then... Glad to hear it's finally here!

Koodrahl · Post by **Koodrahl** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:34 am

Hoooraayy!! You might see Cyndril running around a bit more soon!

(for those of you that remember him)

Katroine · Post by **Katroine** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:42 pm

Yarr!

Oh post pictures of the new room with all the machines!
I love server rooms.

Gurky_Bogglewig · Post by **Gurky_Bogglewig** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:55 pm

Wunderbar, uitstekend, bellissimo, go lokile !

When Gurky returns from his sojourn home there will be less stones to trip over and cause his progress in Elyisia undue lag.

*wonder* You planning on hosting each mod on its own machine ?

Jordicus · Post by **Jordicus** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:48 pm

Gurky_Bogglewig wrote:*wonder* You planning on hosting each mod on its own machine ?

not quite. there will be a definite redistribution of the mods so that there is only 1 large mod on each machine. then they might host a second smaller mod as well, but that part hasn't been all worked out yet. again, that will be an ongoing adjustement as the initial work is just to move the servers to the new location.

swapping mods around can be done very quickly once we are at the new location.

Talwin Hawkins · Post by **Talwin Hawkins** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:34 pm

A time would be nice if thats possible like

Saturday at 8am GMT +8 or whatever means i can jump my char over to the off worlds im sure others would appreciate that too, but if its not possible then meh!

Liartes · Post by **Liartes** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:53 pm

Katroine wrote:Yarr!

Oh post pictures of the new room with all the machines!
I love server rooms.

Oh come on. How lucky is Jitter. I mean really.

janr · Post by **janr** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:27 pm

Katroine wrote:Yarr!

Oh post pictures of the new room with all the machines!
I love server rooms.

Themicles · Post by **Themicles** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:34 pm

Enverex wrote:I assume you aren't doing the 1.64 patch at the same time as that would cause too many potential problems...

Good luck anyway though

There is a LOT more to upgrading to 1.64. Meaning, no, that wont be happening during the move. The hakpaks aren't even finished with their updates yet.

TripleAught · Post by **TripleAught** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:51 pm

A lot more work? What do you mean, there's a nice menu option for updates and one button to push. Viola, v1.64 complete.

*Adds quick disclaimer to keep from getting shot

*
DISCLAIMER: Just kidding. You guys work hard. Really hard, no I mean it, you are some of the hardest, workingest guys... *scratches out 'hardest'* Um, keep up the good work.

Themicles · Post by **Themicles** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:08 pm

TripleAught wrote:A lot more work? What do you mean, there's a nice menu option for updates and one button to push. Viola, v1.64 complete.

*Adds quick disclaimer to keep from getting shot *
DISCLAIMER: Just kidding. You guys work hard. Really hard, no I mean it, you are some of the hardest, workingest guys... *scratches out 'hardest'* Um, keep up the good work.

This is the last I'll comment on this issue here, since it's off topic.

I know you were just kidding, but just to give a bit of an idea why it hasn't already all been updated...

We have two seperate hakpaks for the CoPaP. The 2da hak, and the content hak. The 2da hak needs to be updated to be compliant with 2da changes in 1.64. Furthermore, we have to add in new content to the 2da hak (psionics) as well as a few more things, like new item types, and I personally have new fish icon requests to fill.

And then there's the CEP. If we finished up our hak work RIGHT NOW and released, there would have to be ANOTHER update when CEP releases their 1.5 version. The sooner I get my hands on the final 2das from the new CEP version, the sooner this will all be finished.

There are other people working on aspects of the haks that have yet to submit their work to me as well. So, largely, it's a waiting game.

This definetly wont be the months like it was when we first implimented the CEP though. Don't worry.

-Themicles

PlasmaJohn · Post by **PlasmaJohn** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:28 pm

TripleAught wrote:A lot more work? What do you mean, there's a nice menu option for updates and one button to push. Viola, v1.64 complete.

Not to mention that there's probably going to be a 1.65 in the near future to deal with *crash bugs* introduced by 1.64. Like the move, the upgrade is going to happen "when it's ready"

storminj · Post by **storminj** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:48 pm

PlasmaJohn wrote: Not to mention that there's probably going to be a 1.65 in the near future to deal with *crash bugs* introduced by 1.64. Like the move, the upgrade is going to happen "when it's ready"

Fuzz · Post by **Fuzz** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:52 pm

If you need my help moving shit on Saturday, or want to get together to grill some burgers or hot enriques, I'm there. You guys have my cell#, I think.

PlasmaJohn · Post by **PlasmaJohn** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:40 pm

PlasmaJohn wrote:The plan is to not move physical machines but to bring up alternate hardware here and then copy the vault and the database over. To accomplish this copy cleanly, we'll need to stop all the servers for about an hour so that everything stays in-sync.

Q: Something screwy's happening! Is it the move?
A: Um, no.

This will not happen without warning. The target for cutover is sometime later this afternoon EDT. If we have problems with the alternate machines it may get delayed to tomorrow. We will keep you informed.

As a matter of fact, we'll create a new announcement thread for it.

John

Hamlet · Post by **Hamlet** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:56 pm

But, really, it would be better if server issued message before it went down. Not that it helps much when you have loaded three bags of cotton into the loom ... and almost done crafting them into cloth ^_^

Fire Monkey · Post by **Fire Monkey** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:27 pm

Hamlet wrote:But, really, it would be better if server issued message before it went down. Not that it helps much when you have loaded three bags of cotton into the loom ... and almost done crafting them into cloth ^_^

If it is planned to take the servers offline for whatever reason there is always a server wide shout giving a warning. Seriously though these guys are undertaking to move all the Avlis servers to a new location and then shift mods around between various machines. They are doing all this for our benefit and for free during their weekend off from work.

Therefore it is really not an issue whether people experience a little discomfort in their playing experience for a day or two. Be patient people, its all for the greater good. It will come!