NEWS: Server move and limited availability

[BurnIt!]

Tonight our database server will be moved to a new data center (scheduled for the time between 22:00 GMT+1 today until 09:00 GMT+1 tomorrow morning).

As a result we expect limited site and forum availability during that time.
To keep the site as accessible as possible we will be switching to a secondary database server for the duration of the move but will put the site and forums in "read only" mode.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

[BurnIt!]

Everything's back to normal now.

[Rapier]

Normal. Here?!

[Rapier]

Okay, more sensibly: I notice 'forum2' and 'forum3' now just direct to 'forum'. I presume this means we now have one mega-server, rather than 3 distributed ones. Does this mean we're going to lose some of the restricitions on the search function too?

[CBJ]

The redirection of forum2 and forum3 has been in place for some time already and isn't related to the server move. It represents a change in the way the load is distributed rather than any change to the servers themselves. Because of the sheer size of the forum database, I'd say that the restrictions on the search facility are likely to be a permanent feature.

[CraftyPilot]

Are you the infamous BurnIt! that brought Avarice in my game?

[nirwin]

Are you the infamous BurnIt! that brought Avarive in my game?

Yar, 'tis he! I believe if you look closely he also had something to do with that Trade Command Software Mk3 you pay through the nose for! Probably how he managed to save enough money to win that sector auction.

[Joshua_Dahl]

No, he is the infamous BurnIt! that shamefully lost the auction to me. SUCK IT BurnIt!

[nirwin]

SUCK IT BurnIt!

That made me chuckle (absolutely no offence intended towards the legendary BurnIt!)

[jlehtone]

No, he is the infamous BurnIt! that shamefully lost the auction to me.

Every game is different. That Boron won the auction and got the sector from a Teladi, but ran out of cash and had to sell the sector to me at 400 mil loss.

Somewhat on topic: there are many ways to handle load. One is to have big server. Other is to have many servers and have something to divide the requests among them. The neatest way, which apparently has been working for a while is that the load distributor is the only one seen from outside and real servers are hidden behind it. No need to have forum0--forum999 in public.

The redirection of 'forum3' to 'forum' is probably just a convenience backward compatibility patch so we do not have to update our shortcuts. That is the problem of revealing anything on public: if you need to change it later, somebody's links will break. Clean interface and hidden implementation.

[Nelly]

Hi Folks
I dont know if this has anything to do with your server ,but when I click on search in the Control Panel, the Egosoft form linklist is blank. I found it very handy for finding topics, I hope it's not gone
Thanks.

[CBJ]

It works fine for me. Try it again now and let us know if it still doesn't work for you.

[Nelly]

Working fine now thanks
That page is like "salvage insurance to me"

[scritty]

Errm,
Been a mighty long time since the front page was updated. Any news at all here folks ?

Looking forward to expansion and all the rest of it.

Sorry if all this is covered elsewhere (did a couple of searches and couldn't find anything - so thought I'd ask)

Scritty

[pjknibbs]

If there was news, then it would be posted. Since nothing has been posted, there is no news. Please don't dig up two month old threads to ask questions like this, especially not ones like this--it will confuse people into thinking this is happening now!