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OneST8

Immediate Maintenance
« on: November 28, 2009, 01:25:38 am »
Greetings everyone,

There is a hardware issue with one of the Layonara servers and at this time. In order to mitigate the random downtime of the forums; we're disabling the LORE character updates for a few days.

As well, at some time during the next two/three days the entire layonara.com domain will be taken offline for general maintenance reasons. This downtime will last anywhere from a few hours to possibly more and there's no way to forecast this accurately.

These things have nothing to do with the MMO development and there are no hidden announcements here. About the only thing that's related to the MMO with all of this is that we've been so busy working on the MMO that we haven't had the time to do the needed housecleaning that's now in a state we cannot ignore.

Nothing "bad", just need to make things "right" again.

So, just to clarify, the following services will be completely offline at some point in the next few days and you should all rest assured we're going to try and minimize the downtime as best we can.

  • The World of Layonara
  • forums.layonara.com
  • irc.layonara.com
  • devlog.layonara.com
  • lore.layonara.com
  • NwN Server (xora.layonara.com)
  • and any other service layonara.com provides that I've failed to mention in the above...


Currently the only planned means of official communication regarding status updates during the outage is via twitter.

Please stay tuned.
 
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Re: Immediate Maintenance
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2009, 01:45:00 am »
I just thought I'd expand a bit further. One of the big reasons for the downtime is that our servers are being moved to a more central location at our hosts, Netelligent.  This datacentre has 24/7 staff to handle technical issues as opposed to the current data centre they are located where they have to send someone out to.  You can imagine why this is better.

We had been asked to make this transition a while ago and have been putting it off. Now with one of our servers moraken.layonara.com (poor ol' Moraken) having some hardware failures we'll take advantage of its downtime and need for hardware repairs to make the move to the new datacentre. Also we'll be using the time to improve some overall redundancy and failsafe methods for each of the machines.

So yeah, just in case you wondered!
 

OneST8

Re: Immediate Maintenance
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2009, 01:10:52 pm »
The forums are temporarily restored. Not sure how long they'll last.

The real work will begin tonight, starting around 11pm - 12am EST.

Something to note as a bonus; throughout tonight's maintenance, the NwN server will remain running as that machine doesn't require any hardware level maintenance at this time. So enjoy NwN while we get the site stabilized. If you don't already have NwN setup to play, you should probably wait until things settle down in the next day or two.

Cheers!
 

OneST8

Re: Immediate Maintenance
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2009, 02:12:07 am »
Everything but LORE seems to be functioning properly. We're not out of the woods yet though. More updates to follow.