Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

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Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby loftar » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:16 am

At long last, we've gotten external hosting. At Granger's recommendation, your donation money has gone to Hetzner, and a server on a 100 Mb/s line has been prepared for our use.

Due to this, I'll be bringing the game down and disabling registrations tomorrow to transfer the game data, homepage and, eventually, the forum data to the new server. There's quite a bit of data to be transferred, and I don't know in advance just how long it will take.

Those of you who edited your hosts (Is it hosts.txt on Windows?) while the DNS was down a year ago will probably want to remove those modifications, as some domain names will change.

For those curious, the new server is Hetzner's EQ 6 model. It will obviously improve the bandwidth-related problems and remove the 32-bit VM crashes, and it will be interesting to see how it affects game performance, and how 64-bit pointers will change the server's memory usage.

I think that's all. As an aside, Jorb will be able to surf the interwebz and download pr0n again, but I hardly think that's relevant to anything.
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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby DatOneGuy » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:22 am

Hell, yes. :D

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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby Sarchi » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:22 am

Congrats. :)
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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby Oddity » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:25 am

Hooray! :D
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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby Blxz » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:29 am

Nice. Thanks for the link in IRC too, would have missed this otherwise.
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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby sabinati » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:46 am

nice
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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby Dusk » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:48 am

Awesome! Good work everyone! :D
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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby Jackard » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:56 am

how much of an upgrade is that again?
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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby loftar » Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:24 am

Jackard wrote:how much of an upgrade is that again?

The two primary reasons for the upgrade is because the current server is on a half-duplex 10 Mb/s Internet connection and uses a 32-bit operating system (limiting the server process to 3 GB of virtual memory). Other than that, the current server hardware is an Athlon64 X2 4000+ (2.2 GHz) with 4 GB DDR2 RAM. It has 750 GB hard drive space (non-mirrored) and uses a Gigabyte M25L-S3P motherboard. I don't think it has any other interesting attributes.
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Re: Planned downtime: Moving to a new server

Postby Jackard » Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:40 am

so, a pretty major one then
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