Upcoming downtime - 11/7/2009 10am MST

[Vitoc]

Our main box that hosts the realms is making noises it ought not be and I suspect the HD might be on its last leg.  It has been spinnning non-stop while persisting updates every minute of every hour of every day for the past 4 years or so, with almost no breaks, so I guess I can't complain.

I have another brand new HD sitting around (for just this case) which I plan to install this weekend.  I'll have to install Windows, SQL, all the updates, .NET, etc. and get the databases migrated so there will probably be at least a few hours of downtime starting at around 10am MST on Saturday.

If she blows before then I will try to get all this done ASAP.

[Vitoc]

The noise has literally become unbearable.  Sorry, but I have to shut it down after this backup completes in about 5 minutes.

I'll work on getting the realms back up tonight.  Worst case scenario, I'll host them on my dev box.

[DeathCow]

Thats the worst?  Come'on you can do better.

[Gardner Denver]

How about "Worst case we host them on a 8088 with 640k RAM using 2400 baud dialup NetZero internet"

[Hydroponic]

GO DIALUP!

[Rhinehold]

so what you are saying is, it would be like the olden days.  can you find some way of preventing the use of megamud too? ;-)

-DR

[DeathCow]

Preventing the use of megamud is super easy, just take out the anti-script coding that it relies on

[Rhinehold]

we're going back Back BACK in time!   

-DR