Skotos Tech Servers Status

The Eternal City Maintenance

Erwin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:10:04 PDT

Thursday (April 17) we will work on The Eternal City for major maintenance, involving picking apart a backup taken in the morning and putting it back together. There is a poll in the Welcome Area about what to do in that time (9AM to 9PM Eastern, or 6AM to 6PM Pacific), most likely it will be a so-called No Save Day.

Grendel Maintenance

Erwin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:41:45 PDT

Tuesday morning (April 15) we will take Grendel down for maintenance. The work will begin around 10 AM Eastern (7 AM Pacific) and we anticipate the game to be back up 2 hours later. Sooner is always possible, but not guaranteed.

lazarus, Ironclaw, Lovecraft (done)

Erwin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:10:21 PDT

After some delay because a check was due on all file systems the games are now back up, restarted from statedumps (backups) made shortly after 10 AM Eastern.

Lazarus, Ironclaw, Lovecraft

Erwin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:33:17 PDT

The machine appears to be stuck. We're reviving it as we speak.

UserDB maintenance

Erwin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:28:34 PST

On Friday morning between 10 and 11 AM Eastern Time the UserDB will be down for maintenance. During its downtime access to authenticated parts of our website (on www.skotos.net and sites for the individual games as well) will not be possible.

Marrach and Ironclaw maintenance

Erwin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:20:44 PST

Tomorrow morning (Tuesday, February 25) between 10 AM and noon Eastern time (also known as 7 and 9 AM Pacific Time) we will restart both games repeatedly for maintenance purposes. Actual downtime as a result of this is expected to be under half an hour but the games are also likely to be lagged or otherwise difficult to use during the maintenance window.

Grendel Maintenance

Erwin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:32:49 PST

On Monday, February 4, we will take Grendel down for maintenance. The work will begin around 10 AM Eastern (7 AM Pacific) and we anticipate the game to be back up 2 hours later. Quite possibly sooner than that, but no guarantees.

Plannet reboots

Erwin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:43:39 PST

Happy New Year!

On Monday (January 7) we will be performing routine maintenance. Unfortunately this will require a reboot of the machines, affecting all of them (UserDB, games, web and mail servers). This event of sorts will take place between 10am and noon Eastern Time, a.k.a. 7am and 9am Pacific Time.

Planned reboots

Erwin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:54:41 PST

On Wednesday (December 20th) we will be performing routine maintenance that unfortunately requires a reboot of the machines. This will affect all machines, games, forums, etc, between 10am and noon Eastern, also known as 7am and 9am Pacific.

RPGnet / Xenagia Up

Shannon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:28:10 PST

Things went better than hoped. There was an I/O problem, which we're going to be looking into more deeply, but the machine is now back up, and the MySQL tables were consistent, which means that a long rebuild isn't needed.

RPGnet / Xenagia Down

Shannon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:00:38 PST

It looks like the RPGnet/Xenagia machine suffered some type of serious hardware failure overnight. We're currently working with our colo to bring it back up. Once it's back up, it will probably take a considerable amount of time to rebuild RPGnet's MySQL tables, which will likely be required. We should be back today, but it may be late, depending on the exact problem.

Maintenance Window Scheduled for Wednesday

Shannon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:41:40 PST

Our ISP has announced an electrical system maintenance window for Wednesday the 12th, starting at 6pm and running for 12 hours. It should have no effect on service, but the nature of the work could result in an interruption of service if there is an unexpected problem.

Maintenance Window Scheduled for Sunday

Shannon — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:24 PST

Our ISP has announced a maintenance window for our network routing on Sunday. It should have no effect, but there could be one or more brief interruptions of network service from 10am-2pm PT.

UserDB reboot

Erwin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:34:47 PST

The UserDB is being restarted to put a configuration change into effect that should help reduce the lag of the past 12 hours. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

TEC and Grendel maintenance (final)

Erwin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:14:26 PDT

Both machines are back up and running and their respective games are back up as well. Carry on!

TEC and Grendel maintenance (continued)

Erwin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:56:34 PDT

As always, rack servers are a pain to work in/with and cause unexpected delays. The work with TEC is going well, but slower than hoped. We intend to have it back up before 1pm Pacific (4pm Eastern). Work for the Grendel host was delayed as a result but we intend to have that back up in the same time frame.

Grendel maintenance

Erwin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:04:48 PDT

Unexpectedly we will need to have another look at the Grendel machine, which we'll do around the same time as the work on the TEC machine, tomorrow (Thursday) between 2 and 3 PM Eastern (11 AM and noon Pacific).

Grendel maintenance (final)

Erwin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:33:11 PDT

The maintenance for the Grendel machine is finished.

Grendel and TEC maintenance

Erwin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:39:37 PDT

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday) between 9 and 10 AM Eastern (6 and 7 Pacific) we will perform some minor work on the machine Grendel runs on.

The next day (Thursday) between 2 and 3 PM Eastern (11 AM and noon Pacific) we will perform maintenance on the machine TEC runs on.

As always the intent is to improve the running of the games, by improving the hardware it is running on or the software running on there.

Grendel Maintenance (final)

Erwin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:38:03 PDT

The machine and game are back up. We will be doing some things in the background but that won't require any further reboots. Carry on!

Grendel Maintenance (continued)

Erwin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:10:12 PDT

Some minor complications are causing this maintenance to take a bit longer than originally planned. We will post an update as soon as we are done, of course.

Grendel Maintenance

Erwin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:48:39 PDT

Tomorrow we will be performing necessary maintenance on the machine running Grendel, replacing a failing drive in its redundant setup. This will be done between 2 and 3 PM Eastern (11 AM and noon Pacific) and we anticipate about an hour of downtime.

Planned reboots (done)

Erwin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:25:06 PDT

The maintenance is dealt with, slightly faster than scheduled, so by all means resume what you were doing!

Planned reboots

Erwin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:41:36 PDT

Wednesday morning between 9 and 11 AM Eastern time (6 and 8 AM Pacific) we'll be performing routine maintenance on our machines which unfortunately includes a reboot of each machine.

The actual downtime for each individual machine should be under a few minutes but given preparations before and sanity checks after the actual reboot and because the reboots won't all be done at once, the maintenance window is a bit longer than that.

Planned reboots (done)

Erwin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:55:18 PDT

Both sets of reboots have been dealt with successfully. Carry on!

Planned reboots

Erwin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:13:18 PDT

Tomorrow morning (Tuesday) we'll be rebooting the webserver hosts for www.skotos.net, www.rpg.net, www.xenagia.net and the relevant forums. This is to get some security updates in place.

For the same reason we'll be rebooting the host machines for Castle Marrach, Lazarus Project, Lovecraft Country and IronClaw Online and the UserDB host on Wednesday morning.

Both sets of reboots will be dealt with between 9 and 10 AM Eastern, also known as 6 and 7 AM Pacific.

UserDB maintenance (done)

Erwin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:28:59 PDT

The maintenance is finished, authentication should function properly again. Resume browsing and playing as always. :)

UserDB maintenance ahead

Erwin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:39:38 PDT

The maintenance is still on for tomorrow, but has been pushed back 2 hours (so noon to 1 PM Eastern, or 9 to 10 AM Pacific).

UserDB maintenance ahead

Erwin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:19:05 PDT

Wednesday morning September 19 between 10 and 11 AM Eastern (7 and 8 AM Pacific) we will be working on the UserDB host, which will involve downtime for the UserDB itself. If you're already logged into your favourite game you should be fine as long as you don't need to reauthenticate (which often includes game-generated webpages).

We apologize in advance for the inconvenience and assure you this is necessary work that needs to be done one way or another.

Planned maintenance (final)

Erwin — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:19:57 PDT

The database upgrade/check has finished and the forum has been reopened. Carry on!

Xenagia Reminder!

Shannon — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:22:20 PDT

If you're angsting for RPGnet (now 6 hours into its database repair and counting) remember that you can talk about all your favorite fantasy, science-fiction, and horror Other Media issues at Xenagia.

Planned maintenance (continued)

Erwin — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:10:31 PDT

The maintenance has been successful but because it includes an upgrade of the MySQL database backend, the RPGnet forums will be offline for a few more hours. A final update will be posted when everything has been reactivated.

Planned maintenance

Erwin — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:40:49 PDT

Tomorrow (Friday) morning between 9 and 11 AM Eastern (6 and 8 AM Pacific) we will be working on the server used for rpg.net and xenagia.net websites. During this work the sites will be down. Not for the entire 2 hour period, but we can't guarantee it to be up for more than a few minutes here or there. We apologize for the inconvenience but this is necessary work and the sooner it's done, the better.

Planned maintenance (final)

Erwin — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:26:07 PDT

Once someone was on-site the problem was quickly diagnosed and resolved. All is well and the sites are back up. Let us know through the usual channels if you notice any irregularities still.

Planned maintenance (continued)

Erwin — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:03:20 PDT

Alright, so that went partially according to plan, and partially not-so. The machine did not come back after a kernel change and reboot and someone is on their way to take a look from up close and fix it.

Planned maintenance

Erwin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:15:30 PDT

Tomorrow (Thursday) morning between 9 and 11 AM Eastern (6 and 8 AM Pacific) I will be working on the server used for skotos.net websites not generated by the games themselves, including webmail for premium accounts and the main pages involving authentication, and the regular and forum websites for lovecraftcountry.com. During this work the sites will be down. Not for the entire maintenance period, but several minutes here and there. We apologize for the inconvenience but this is necessary work and the sooner it's done, the better.

Maintenance downtime (final)

Erwin — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:21:48 PDT

It's all over and done with. I'm still checking a few things but all games are back up and it looks like it went according to plan. Carry on!

Maintenance downtime (cont'd)

Erwin — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:28:23 PDT

The announced maintenance is in progress. I'll post an update when it's all over.

Maintenance downtime

Erwin — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:13:22 PDT

On Monday morning, September 10, I will be rebooting the machines on which we run Castle Marrach, IronClaw Online, Lovecraft Country, and The Lazarus Project.

The maintenance window is from 9 to 10 AM Eastern Time, which translates to 6 to 7 AM Pacific Time.

Database downtime (finished)

Erwin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:20:19 PDT

The database I referred to was the one that powers the RPG.net and Xenagia.net forums and a few others things, which I guess was not entirely obvious.

The downtime is over, at any rate, and was limited to about 15-20 minutes. Carry on!

Database downtime

Erwin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:46:52 PDT

At 2pm Eastern today I'll be taking the database down briefly. Expected downtime about 30 minutes.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

The Eternal City

Erwin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:11:18 PDT

Yesterday morning and this morning the game crashed. In both cases the game was restarted from the most recent backup, of course. The cause is still being investigated.

Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Meta update

Erwin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:03:57 PDT

For your convenience we have added categories to the status updates and added the possibility to view and subscribe to updates in an individual category.

Castle Marrach

Erwin — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:29:38 PDT

For unknown reasons Marrach's host rebooted. I've restarted the game now.

Apologies for the inconvenience, and carry on. The game was restarted from the 12:15 PM Eastern Time snapshot.

Ultimate RPGnet/Xenagia Update

Shannon — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:18:17 PDT

(We're back.)

Penultimate (?) RPGnet/Xenagia Update

Shannon — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:16:04 PDT

The restores seem to have worked. We're now repairing the main posts table on RPGnet. This will take several hours, though we started it at 1pm PT, so we're partway there.

RPGnet/Xenagia Update V

Shannon — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:28:55 PDT

So the largest problem here has been that the facility who we rent the RPGnet machine from doesn't have a lot of experience with our brand of Linux. They've been great, and the machine is only coming back up due to their determination, but nonetheless it took 5 tries to get their restore system working correctly with our file system. These restores each took quite a while, with the longest running almost 8 hours. As of this morning they've got us a bootable machine with all the data restored in main. They're doing some cleanup and hope to have us the machine back within an hour, at which point we'll need to start repairing our forums table and doing any other cleanup necessary.

RPGnet/Xenagia Update IV

Shannon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:19:00 PDT

Apparently the restore produced an unbootable system. Starting over ... At this point, expect a function RPGnet and Xenagia tomorrow.

RPGnet/Xenagia Update III

Shannon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:54:21 PDT

Yep, we're still restoring 5 hours later. The restore program says we're -92% done. (It apparently doesn't deal that well with large numbers.)

RPGnet/Xenagia Update II

Shannon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:08:54 PDT

We're up to the restore ...

RPGnet/Xenagia Update

Shannon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:23:01 PDT

The final snapshop backup is done. Our new RAID is currently building. The next step after that is a restore, then the inevitable cleanup of the forum-related tables.

RPGnet / Xenagia Status

Shannon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:39:53 PDT

For those of you who use our community sites at RPGnet and Xenagia: We experienced a disk failure last night which kicked the machine offline. We're currently creating a final snapshot of the machine, then we'll be rebuilding it and restoring it. In the process we're also reconfiguring the machine into a more redundant setup, to make a failure like this easier to deal with in the future. This will all take several hours.

UserDB downtime

Erwin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:45:20 PDT

You may have noticed there was some additional UserDB downtime after the announced maintenance window this morning. The first one was unexpected, unfortunately, but as far as could be determined there were no harmful side-effects. The second was a reboot to upgrade the software package with a fix to prevent the problem that caused that first downtime.

Our apologies for the inconvenience, please carry on now. :)

UserDB maintenance

Erwin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:59:32 PDT

The previous UserDB downtime was part 1 of necessary maintenance work, on Monday June 4 we'll do part 2. This will again involve a maintenance window of an hour, at 10am Eastern time.

As always anyone already logged into a game can continue to play as long as they don't need any web pop-up windows, which typically require authentication.

UserDB maintenance (complete)

Erwin — Wed, 30 May 2007 07:33:17 PDT

Maintenance went without any problems, the UserDB was back up after approximately 20 minutes. Game on!

UserDB maintenance

Erwin — Tue, 29 May 2007 08:39:56 PDT

Tomorrow morning around 10am Eastern we will briefly take the UserDB down for maintenance. The maintenance window for this will be 1 hour.

Anyone already logged into a game can continue to play but anything web-based that requires authentication will fail during this maintenance.

Skotos Power Problems (final)

Erwin — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:59:24 PDT

All websites except webmail.skotos.net were brought back up in the course of the day, yesterday. Last night and this morning we restored the webmail accounts for premium account holders.

With that, everything should be back up and running normal. If it isn't, please let us know through the usual channels.

Skotos Power Problem (update 2)

Erwin — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:09:27 PDT

The website machine insisted on being unhappy so for today at least I've revived www.skotos.net and forum.skotos.net on different hardware. This may not work 100%, but well enough for folks to log into games and such. The rest will follow tomorrow.

Skotos Power Problem (update)

Erwin — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:45:00 PDT

All machines are back up, except for the one running our main website. We are working on getting it back, one way or another.

Skotos Power Problem

Shannon — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:10:17 PDT

In doing some power work, our colo facility accidentally knocked down power to every machine they're hosting. The power is back on now, but there are continued routing problems to a few of our machines. We've got a call in to the facility, but it may take some time to restore everything, because they may well be dealing with hundreds of calls at this time.

Marrach Move

Erwin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:30:49 PST

Tomorrow we'll be moving Marrach back to its own machine. This means about an hour downtime, starting at 10 AM Eastern.

UserDB maintenance (done)

Erwin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:23:55 PST

The reboot has been performed, carry on. :)

UserDB maintenance

Erwin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:23:58 PST

Monday morning we plan to reboot the UserDB, to tweak its configuration.

The Time: 10 AM, Eastern (7 AM Pacific).
The Date: Monday, January 29 2007.

Time allocated for this work is 1.5 hour. Anyone already logged into a game can of course stay logged in, but a lot of web based (authenticated) things will not work during the downtime.

Maintenance done

Erwin — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:33:31 PST

All games are back up. At some point in the near future Marrach will be moved again, but there will be an announcement to that effect before that happens.

Game on!

Marrach Update

Erwin — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:18:34 PST

The complications have resulted in us needing to move Marrach back to the very machine that it came from, temporarily, while we remove the unhappy one from the rack and deal with that later. We'll bring it back up after we're done with the second maintenance job today.

Marrach Maintenance

Erwin — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:49:31 PST

We ran into an unexpected complication and will need someone to pay the actual machine a visit. This should happen shortly, but it will quite likely mean a somewhat extended downtime. We'll do our best to have Marrach back up as soon as possible and post updates here.

Machine maintenance

Erwin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:21:25 PST

To correct another misconfiguration, we'll be taking down the machine with Ironclaw Online, Lazarus and Lovecraft Country on it from 2pm to 4pm Eastern Time, tomorrow (Thursday). Our apologies for this inconvenience, but it has to be done.

Maintenance (Castle Marrach)

Erwin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:15:42 PST

To correct a misconfiguration, we'll be taking down Castle Marrach tomorrow from 10am to noon, Eastern Time. Our apologies for the inconvenience and we invite you to try out some of our other games if you're looking for a distraction!

Games moving

Erwin — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:36:36 PST

Tomorrow (Thursday), throughout the day we'll move several games onto a new machine. This includes The Lazarus Project, Lovecraft Country, and Ironclaw Online. Downtime for the individual games will be in the 30-60 minutes, mostly to synchronize the files from the old to the new machine.

This move should make all of them quite a bit snappier.

Site Back Up

Shannon — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:19:21 PST

Thanks for your patience.

Skotos Web Site Down

Shannon — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:06:09 PST

The Skotos web site is currently down due to technical difficulties.

Castle Marrach maintenance

Erwin — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:35:51 PST

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we'll be performing the same kind of maintenance for Castle Marrach that's been done for Ironclaw Online, Lovecraft Country, and others. Expected downtime is about 4 hours and this work will start at 10 AM Eastern Time, with the game being back up around 2 PM. Our apologies for any convenience this may cause.

Lovecraft downtime

Erwin — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:49:52 PST

Apologies for the extended downtime this morning with Lovecraft. I ran into an unexpected problem and rather than having to abandon the work already done and redoing it some other day (1.5 hours of work down the drain) I tracked it down and solved it today. All should be well, now!

Planned maintenance

Erwin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:00:08 PST

In the next few days we will be taking the following games down for maintenance, each between 10am and noon Eastern time:

Tuesday: The Lazarus Project
Wednesday: Lovecraft Country: Arkham by Night
Thursday: Ironclaw Online

Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Authentication

Erwin — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:08:23 PST

We're aware that authentication and related activities that query the UserDB have been slow in the past few days. We know the cause, which is temporary, but can't easily correct the problem. On a related note, I rebooted the UserDB, in an attempt to speed it up. In a few minutes I hope to find out if that helped.

Games back up

Erwin — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:42:42 PST

The three games (Ironclaw, Lovecraft and Mortalis) are now back up and running.

Server down

Erwin — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:06:00 PST

The server Kelner on which Lovecraft, Ironclaw and Mortalis live, is having technical difficulties. I'll be bringing the games back up elsewhere for now and will post an update on that as soon as it has been done.

UserDB performance

Erwin — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:35:46 PST

The UserDB (the server that our games and account web-pages connect to, to check your credentials) has been experiencing some hiccups. They are entirely my fault. The most recent one was due to trying to squeeze 2GB of data into 1GB of RAM. That just makes things a bit slow. I promise to leave it alone for the rest of the evening. Carry on!

TEC Status

Shannon — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:53:55 PDT

It looks like we're having some continued TEC downtime due to some additional problems. Bruce is currently working on it, but expects at least 2 more hours of downtime, possibly more.

TEC Rebooting

Shannon — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:32:41 PDT

We had a crash of TEC late last night. It's now being brought back up and we should have regular service within an hour.

Forums Down

Shannon — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:22:03 PDT

We are doing a large-scale upgrade on the Skotos forums which will have them down part or all of the afternoon.

Days of Wonder (Really) Back

Shannon — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:33:15 PDT

We had some continuing issues, but it now looks like the Days of Wonder games are really working again, meaning that you now have a total of 10 different board games to supplement your RPG experience.

Limited Downtime on Thursday

Shannon — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:16:48 PDT

We're going to be some final moves & cleanup of our new colo this Thursday (June 8) from 2pm-5pm PT. Downtime should be very limited, but we'll be swapping some ether cables as we clean things up, and that will cause lags of several minutes long on individual machines as we do.

Partial downtime (2)

Erwin — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:55:03 PDT

Whoops. It went so smoothly I forgot to post an update. All games are back up. Game on!

Partial downtime

Erwin — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:31:57 PDT

As per the announcement earlier this week, we're moving some of our servers, with as effect that Castle Marrach, S7 and Lazarus Project are currently unavailable. An update will follow when everything is back up and running.

Days of Wonder Back!

Shannon — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:50:52 PDT

The Days of Wonder games are back! We apologize for the extended downtime. And if you like board games, be sure to try out our new GTO games too.

Thursday Downtime: Marrach, S7, Lazarus

Shannon — Tue, 30 May 2006 13:32:28 PDT

This Thursday, approximately 11am to 3pm PT, we'll be moving another set of machines to our new facility. This will result in temporary downtime for Castle Marrach, The Lazarus Project, and the Skotos 7 server.

Days of Wonder Issues

Shannon — Fri, 19 May 2006 10:58:26 PDT

We're aware that logins to the Days of Wonder games are currently not working. This seems to be a side effect of yesterday's move of the Skotos web server. Unfortunately the technician needed to fix this at DoW is currently out of town, but we're nonetheless hoping it can get resolved soon.

We are back!

Erwin — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:15:45 PDT

That scheduled downtime went as intended, but we had a minor hardware bump to work around, which slowed us down a bit. Website, games and UserDB/authentication should now all be back up, however. Carry on!

Planned Downtime: Thursday the 18th

Shannon — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:41:32 PDT

We are planning a site-wide downtime this coming Thursday from 11am to 3pm, PT. We will be moving the machines with our web site, the user database, and the games Galactic Emperor: Hegemony, Lovecraft Country, Ironclaw, and Mortalis, and thus they will be down for the interim. Other games may be marginally accessible, but without the website or database, you won't be able to log onto to them. As with other recent downtimes, this one is scheduled to get machines into our new co-location facility.

Grendel\'s Revenge Even More Back Up

Shannon — Wed, 03 May 2006 15:26:52 PDT

We just fixed a problem relating to filetypes which was preventing some people from logging into GR.

Grendel\'s Revenge

Erwin — Wed, 03 May 2006 09:59:44 PDT

The game is back up, game on. :)

Grendel\'s Revenge

Erwin — Wed, 03 May 2006 08:45:19 PDT

The game has been taken down and we are moving data around as we speak. Expect several hours of downtime and an update on this site when it's back up.

TEC in transit (2)

Erwin — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:58:56 PDT

It's back up now. Game on!

TEC in transit

Erwin — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:29:13 PDT

The TEC move is now in progress. Sit back, relax, have lunch, watch a movie or read a book, and we'll let you know as soon as it is back up.

Next Wednesday GR Move

Shannon — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:19:10 PDT

We'll be moving GR to a new machine at the new facility a week from Wednesday, on 5-3. This downtime is expected to be several hours long, but will result in GR running on a newer, faster machine.

Thursday TEC Move

Shannon — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:15:07 PDT

We'll be moving TEC to the new facility on Thursday morning (PT). This will result in approximately 2 hours of downtown.

Pending Machine Moves

Shannon — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:46:41 PDT

Last Friday we signed a contract with a colo facility which we'll eventually be hosting all of Skotos at. We've had this in process for quite a while, and we've been hosting RPGnet at the facility since January; we've been very happy with the results. The new colo facility will have more reliable power and network than we've been able to provide at the Skotos machine room, which should generally limit hardware issues as our sole point of failure. We're going to be moving all of Skotos over sometime between now and the end of May. We've got a test machine there already, and will be moving other machines soon, but we're waiting on some new hardware before we can finish things up. We'll make sure to announce scheduled downtimes for the move here.