Game Servers Going Down! - Please READ

Leanthar · 09-25-08, 06:55 AM

UPDATE - 9/30/2008 @ 5:45PM PACIFIC (by orth)

The NWN game worlds will be back. Details will follow in a day or two. Timeline is a bit sketchy, but most likely within a week or two. Thank you all for your patience and understanding once again.

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UPDATE - 9/29/2008 @ 9:52AM PACIFIC (by Dorganath)

Leanthar wanted me to inform everyone that the servers will be going down in 20-30 minutes from right now. Thank you all for your understanding during this time.

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UPDATE - 9/28/2008 @ 5:30PM PACIFIC

As of this time I still do not have the needed signatures. The game worlds still have to come down as planned and talked about below. I will bring them back online when (if) I get the signatures. Keep your fingers crossed.

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Hello Everybody,

I hope you and your familes are doing well.

This post is just a heads up with what is happening with the game servers at this time. My hosting company (GNI) has increased the costs of hosting and providing bandwidth for the game servers by 350% starting on October 1st. Since donations has been less than 30% of the costs that I pay them for hosting for seven years now it is clear that I will never come close to getting enough donations with a 350% increase in my costs. As such I will be bringing the game world servers down on Monday, September 29th. I am not sure at what time this will happen but it will be some time between 9am and noon Pacific.

I think I have found another location for the servers but a few signatures still need to be penned and as such it is not 100% at this time. If I am able to get the signatures by the end of this weekend the game servers will come back online in a new location within 48 hours of coming offline. That is the hope and plan at least. I give no promises on how long it will take or if I will be successful in gaining the needed signatures. If I do not gain the signatures then chances are very high the servers will not come back online at all. But I do think I will be able to get those signatures, even if it takes longer than past this weekend; which it could.

Once the game servers are back online all of the IP addresses will have changed so if you are using the actual IP address to play on the game world you will not be able to get to the servers when they are back online. I do not think anybody does this any more, but if you do this is the heads up. You will still be able to use the server names to gain access (such as west.layonara.com) but since we will have changed IP addresses it also means we need to update DNS to the world. The update process will usually happen within 24 hours (across the world) but some times it takes up to 72 hours. If you are not able to find the server during that time it is highly likely that DNS has not been updated for your ISP yet, but it will happen. I am hopeful that all players will be able to connect and play on the game servers by Wednessday, October 1st, noon Pacific; again though, I can give no promises. There is a possibility that they will be back online Monday night or Tuesday morning, but I am not sure how possible that is at this time.
I will keep everybody up to date via posts on the forum. The forum and IRC will remain online as they are hosted at another location entirely. This affects only the game servers.

I am sorry for the short notice but this was sprung on me 36 hours ago and I have been trying to work with them for a solution but it is clear they have no interest what-so-ever of working with us on a solution. I gave up on the process this morning after thinking about things last night.

Keep your fingers crossed.

gilshem ironstone · 09-25-08, 08:51 AM

Can I assume that the forums will still be rocking and/or rolling?

Dorganath · 09-25-08, 09:05 AM

The forums are not located in the same place, so yes, they should remain up.

Hellblazer · 09-25-08, 10:02 AM

truly hope you can get something up soon.

Chongo · 09-25-08, 01:05 PM

When they are back and rolling, we have a pretty neat area expansion update prepared and *almost* finalized. So I suppose we can all keep our fingers crossed, and in the meantime, everyone send those negative mindbeams at GNI? *with a strained face he begins to make a strange grunting buzz noise*