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Cordovan
08-11-2020, 02:30 PM
UPDATE: All game worlds except for Orien have reopened. Orien's downtime has been extended until 4:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT).

All game worlds will be brought down for a restart at 9:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Wednesday, August 12th. Additionally, Orien will receive some additional server maintenance, and is expected to remain unavailable until 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT).
Calonderial
08-12-2020, 09:37 AM
All game worlds will be brought down for a restart at 9:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Wednesday, August 12th. Additionally, Orien will receive some additional server maintenance, and is expected to remain unavailable until 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT).

Ghallanda is still down along with Orien? what gives
Cordovan
08-12-2020, 09:39 AM
All worlds except for Ghallanda and Orien have reopened. Orien is not expected to reopen until early this afternoon. We are doing some additional work on Ghallanda and will keep you updated.
Brandall
08-12-2020, 09:42 AM
All worlds except for Ghallanda and Orien have reopened. Orien is not expected to reopen until early this afternoon. We are doing some additional work on Ghallanda and will keep you updated.

This is obnoxious.
Soulfurnace
08-12-2020, 09:51 AM
All worlds except for Ghallanda and Orien have reopened. Orien is not expected to reopen until early this afternoon. We are doing some additional work on Ghallanda and will keep you updated.

I'm prepared for the rollback..
Kabaon
08-12-2020, 10:06 AM
I'm prepared for the rollback..

As annoying as it would be, I'm there with you.

As for DDO's servers, I never understood how it takes an hour (or more) to turn them off and turn them on again XD
Weemadarthur
08-12-2020, 10:17 AM
All worlds except for Ghallanda and Orien have reopened. Orien is not expected to reopen until early this afternoon. We are doing some additional work on Ghallanda and will keep you updated.

So does this mean G-land is getting new hamsters? :P
Logicman69
08-12-2020, 10:35 AM
Oh jeez... and I just farmed all my cleric gear last night.

*fingers crossed for no rollback*
Yamani
08-12-2020, 10:37 AM
As for DDO's servers, I never understood how it takes an hour (or more) to turn them off and turn them on again XD

Turn your computer completely off then turn it back on, takes a second to a min to boot back up. Now imagine doing that same thing with about 100x-500x more data to load up.
Brandall
08-12-2020, 10:52 AM
All worlds except for Ghallanda and Orien have reopened. Orien is not expected to reopen until early this afternoon. We are doing some additional work on Ghallanda and will keep you updated.

so G-land is down now for 2 hours past the restart...can we get some info?
Cordovan
08-12-2020, 11:03 AM
Ghallanda has reopened.
Jaynen
08-12-2020, 12:16 PM
Ok so how about an update on Orien which was due at 1EST but is still down not "closed"
Cordovan
08-12-2020, 12:41 PM
Orien's downtime has been extended until 4:00 PM Eastern. FYI everything is fine but we have a bit of work to do yet.
Cordovan
08-12-2020, 01:11 PM
Orien has reopened.
cdbd3rd
08-12-2020, 01:55 PM
....FYI everything is fine....

[[Yeah, I know I'm late poking fun at this.]]

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chaosmanager
08-13-2020, 07:04 PM
Turn your computer completely off then turn it back on, takes a second to a min to boot back up. Now imagine doing that same thing with about 100x-500x more data to load up.

Reminds me of an SPARCStation III that I was the sysadmin for back in college. When it was time to do a basic power cycle so that kernal changes would become active, it would take about 4 hours to complete. Enough time to walk across campus to my car, go to a decent (not fast food) restaurant, order a meal, eat, drive back to campus and then walk back across campus. The system would be JUST restarting the power up portion of the cycle. The folks who used that machine as a server knew not to expect a quick turnaround. Minimal databases, but it had to check EVERY file system before it could shutdown due to the age of some of the drives and the importance of the data. If we had to backup a file system before shutdown or restore one before we could release a file system to the users ... Well, that was usually overtime for me and let me get a lot of studying done while getting paid. Tape backup devices, especially the ones included with the SPARCStation III, were painfully slow. Backup speeds were listed in bits per minute for a reason.