Sabah planned downtime (3PM EST)

[Reed]

Planning to move Sabah off to a different server this afternoon (mid-afternoon EST) to help alleviate the load.

The downtime may be as little as a couple hours, depending on how quickly the DNS updates for you.

[abana]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Farmer]

Thanks for letting us know.

[Amun Nefer]

I just know you're looking forward to the rows and rows of servers you'll have to deal with in the future Reed.

[ArmEagle]

Originally Posted by Reed

Planning to move Sabah off to a different server this afternoon (mid-afternoon EST) to help alleviate the load.

The downtime may be as little as a couple hours, depending on how quickly the DNS updates for you.

Yay! Though, could you post the IP# of the new server once it's up? No need to keep the tech-savvy people from playing.

[balthazarr]

Originally Posted by Reed

Planning to move Sabah off to a different server this afternoon (mid-afternoon EST) to help alleviate the load.

The downtime may be as little as a couple hours, depending on how quickly the DNS updates for you.

Will time stop during the shutdown or will everything continue (or instantly play catch up) when the server is switched.

My main concern is goods in transit during the "down time" not being delivered. Late is ok (and understandable), poofing into nothingness would not be.

[Amun Nefer]

Why do you need that info Arm?

Yeah, I just sent out 5K sculptures and I'd really like them to arrive at their destination....

[Idle Rage]

Originally Posted by Amun Nefer

Why do you need that info Arm?

Yeah, I just sent out 5K sculptures and I'd really like them to arrive at their destination....

DNS updates can take a while to trickle down (depending on how close your ISP is to DNS root servers). Some ISPs may only refresh DNS daily or may have a very intolerant negative cache TTL set up

So, I agree with ArmEagle's request... can we get the IP address once the server(s) have been migrated?

- Idle Rage

[Ivy]

Looks like the move just started.

[dreadmime]

Well Jesus Reed...

(laugh) Coulda used a 2 minute warning there.



I knew it was "coming" to day... but you said Noon EST... it's Noon PST... some 4 hours later... I thought you'd already done it.

I was in the middle of re-allocating workers to fix a bread problem in one of my cities when "SABAH IS BEING MOVED"

lol

[Khabita]

Darn! Now what am I gonna do during this boring 3 to 5 pm meeting?

[Quernia]

Originally Posted by Khabita

Darn! Now what am I gonna do during this boring 3 to 5 pm meeting?

Play Theoris?

[Reed]

Originally Posted by dreadmime

I knew it was "coming" to day... but you said Noon EST... it's Noon PST... some 4 hours later... I thought you'd already done it.

Noon?

[Cazy]

Originally Posted by abana

Thanks for the heads up.

What heads up? I went out for a few hours and when I return Sabah's on hold and I get to read the thread that tells me Sabah is going to be on hold.

[Golden Archer]

Cool, we needed that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dreadmime]

Originally Posted by Reed

Noon?

well, you said "Mid afternoon" ...

however, by logic

Noon = 12:00 EST
Evening = 5:00PM EST
Therefore, Afternoon = 12:01 EST - 4:59 EST

Therefore, mid-afternoon = 2:28EST

Killing it at 4PM EST is 2 hours late!

I dunno. i'm just bored I guess.

[Catshepsut]

Originally Posted by Cazy

What heads up? I went out for a few hours and when I return Sabah's on hold and I get to read the thread that tells me Sabah is going to be on hold.

At the log in page, there was a message saying Sabah was going to be unavailable in the afternoon. I don't know how early the message was there, but it was there around 11:00 am Eastern daylight savings time.

[Reed]

Should be back in business now, for most folks.

If the DNS hasn't propagated for you yet and you don't want to wait, you can manually point the domain to 174.133.176.66.

[Farmer]

How do I manually point the domain to 174.133.176.66?

[ArmEagle]

Originally Posted by Farmer

How do I manually point the domain to 174.133.176.66?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file