Server downtime 10/18/11

[Shaolin88]

wouldnt you know it, game breaks the day i sign up and am ready to play

[darkshad0wxx]

eh i hope itl be back up soon

[Vlada]

wouldnt you know it, game breaks the day i sign up and am ready to play

"Game" is broken in more ways than one, but this time its not the "game" that has failed you and all the rest of us, its the damn hardware.

[wacktastic1]

This is a FREE game i am as gutted as the next man but 24 hours is not forever we have a future.Those guys on you know what are all 6 weeks away from perm down time.

What these chaps are doing is worth any wait.....

Perm down time? So we wont be able to play anymore after the 6 weeks?

[Vlada]

Perm down time? So we wont be able to play anymore after the 6 weeks?

What 6 weeks?

[Ellyssia]

I *think* the guy he quoted was referring to the shutdown of Live in Dec...

[Vlada]

Who the hell cares about that.



P.S. Good to see you Elly, damn good. Missed you long time.

[darkshad0wxx]

huh never really thought about it but i wonder how many of the people still playing live might join one of the emus after its gone?

[khailis]

huh never really thought about it but i wonder how many of the people still playing live might join one of the emus after its gone?

Plenty. It's been very poorly received. As much as the majority of us desire the game in its pre-CU state, I would venture to say that there are at least as many active players that have only ever played the game in the NGE incarnation and would desire "their" own server "that" way.

[Reead]

Hardware failure is a fact of life for datacenters, but I must say this particular datacenter has had quite a few failures with you guys in a short amount of time. It might be time for the Emu developers to take their money elsewhere. I'm sure it's a much bigger pain in the *** for them than for the testers & players.

Just my two cents!

[Reead]

why does it matter if hhd or ssd is broken? Its still off for quite some time.

Take this with a grain of salt because I'm far from an expert.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but SSD's are usually used for the server's Operating System because they have much faster read/write speeds than normal HDD's. One of the downsides to current SSD's is that they have a higher failure rate and degrade slowly with use. The physical, magnetic media used by HDD's is much more reliable, and cheaper to buy with massive storage capacities. I would also suspect that the HDD holds much of the "meat" of the data (player data, tables and such, etc) but again I could be totally wrong.

[DarksideTarq]

Thanks for the update.

[Blazer6992]

Is it possible to get the code so I could run the game on a private server?

[Vlada]

Is it possible to get the code so I could run the game on a private server?

Only the new OR code that is still in development, one running on TC: Nova.


Liberator code is considered a dead code, no longer in envelopment and it is not open source.

[StarWarsFreak]

With all the faliures maybe its time to think about Raid 1 mirroring and hot swapping.

The drives which crashed were running in a RAID10, if it wasn't, this crash would've meant the loss of ALL data. But even with RAID of any sorts, if a drive goes bad, it can take a GOOD long while for the data to be rebuilt if a new drive is put it considering if the RAID was some sort of mirrored array.