Excellent write up! I appreciate the work that goes into upgrading the environment on a scale such as this. There are a lot of moving parts that are beyond just having a play-test server (Basalist) and a test-test server (Nova) running SWGEmu code. It was killing me this past August when there were posts getting all upset over backups and notifications. Crap happens. It is what you do after the crap happens that makes the difference.
