Basilisk maintenance - 7/14/12

[Steeny]

Looks like a little bit of time to catch up on sleep. Thank you for the updates!

[Sillysith]

What's an SSD? :P Sounds like something I need to go get a shot for!

[mrbenson]

Oh you silly Sith... SSD not STD! What a difference a letter can make. And no, condoms will not protect you from SSD crashes.

But incase this is a valid query as to the nature of SSDs

SSD - Solid State Drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssd#Commercialization

And specifically from the wiki post
SSDs have no moving parts to fail mechanically. Each block of a flash-based SSD can only be erased (and therefore written) a limited number of times before it fails. The controllers manage this limitation so that drives can last for many years under normal use.[80][81][82][83][84] SSDs based on DRAM do not have a limited number of writes. Firmware bugs are currently a common cause for data loss.[citation needed

The controllers, I imigine were have to work really hard to manage the SSD storage because so many of the cells had reached their limit. Hince the rubber banding

[MaelDiablo]

Oh noes!!!! What am I going to do??? I was not prepared for this!!! 24 hours!!!! Really?









Time to do some shopping anyways.

[Ikox]

I believe the SSD exchanging is done by the hosting company / datacenter where the server is stored at, and not by any of the devs if i read correctly last time i saw TA post about it , might be wrong, but i don't believe its any of the devs that are on site now, first of it would require a certain amount of security access just to get into a datacenter, you don't just walk in from the street , in Denmark our datacenters have fingerprint scanner machines and what not, its multi million dollar hardware thats stored at places like this.

[Lolindir]

I believe the SSD exchanging is done by the hosting company / datacenter where the server is stored at, and not by any of the devs if i read correctly last time i saw TA post about it , might be wrong, but i don't believe its any of the devs that are on site now, first of it would require a certain amount of security access just to get into a datacenter, you don't just walk in from the street , in Denmark our datacenters have fingerprint scanner machines and what not, its multi million dollar hardware thats stored at places like this.

That is true, its no staff here who physically change the SSD. that job takes, what? 5 min? What staff will do is probably reinstall every thing needed to be on the disks and thats what takes so long.

[Demarco]

Server upgrade pizza and beer party for the team? Pizza and beer on their own dime, of course. (that was a bad joke, nothing more)

Out of curiosity, what are the specs on the server? Just wonderin if we're allowed to see, and I didn't find anything poking around the forums.

I found the link to the specs you were looking for:

https://www.swgemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39875

This should provide the geeks some food to chew on for a bit.
Scroll down to Vlada's Post... Not the link in the post, it's outdated.

[HzGuderian]

Thanks very much for the link!

[Merlyn_Gabriel]

upgrades! How cool is that!
Thanks to all the people who work so hard to make this happen. I'm so happy just to be able to hangout in game and do stuff.

[Ego]

Maybe they are faster then 24hours ... lets hope

[furret831]

Hope not, honestly. More downtime means more updates later. I'm all for progress.

[pro4never]

So exciting! This is fantastic news for lag reduction.

[ashur]

24 hrs, give me server i switch 10 minute tops! maybe 20!

[Ellyssia]

I would also assume based on my job as a Systems admin, that a full backup of the DB would be done first, to make sure the most recent data is available. Followed by replacing the drives, restore the backup, and rebuild the RAID. With testing done after the rebuild is complete to make sure all is good. Mind you I don't know the exact steps being followed, that's just how I'd do it

[Ikox]

I would also assume based on my job as a Systems admin, that a full backup of the DB would be done first, to make sure the most recent data is available. Followed by replacing the drives, restore the backup, and rebuild the RAID. With testing done after the rebuild is complete to make sure all is good. Mind you I don't know the exact steps being followed, that's just how I'd do it

Thats worthy of a +1 for being correct