As most of you know by now, yesterday the servers went down-sort of. They reset/rebooted themselves ok but with the error of not displaying them on the aos play page, spadille, etc. Usually there is no need for alarm when this happens, an admin just goes into the system and basically turns the broadcast switch off and back on (known as toggling) and it reappears on the play pages. Well, we did this but it would only turn them off, not on. You could still get into the servers, like i said but had to use another method. i.e. aos//xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Then izzy came on and was notified of the situation and he went to work to correct the issue. To make this as short as possble, He basically shut it down and it wouldnt turn back on. We realized we could get into the system but something was blocking the outgoing traffic to turn it back on. After many hours of trying diligently to restore our servers with the current data center, Izzy had to make a decision. This is quoted exactly from iz.
<izzy->we basically have two options
<izzy->which could be a few days from now
<izzy->or schedule a move-out to vegas tomorrow
<izzy->which means it will be hooked up on friday
<izzy->if they actually ship it out tomorrow
<izzy->stay and hope the new nic fixes these problems
So as you can see we have to rely on a part that may not fix a issue from a data center who should already have backups, fail safes, etc
(this may have been why the really laggy issue exp. on hallway and pinpoint were occuring)
To those who still dont follow, its a IP issue with the Data centers security protection and the constant data flow that we stream to them in all essance. So, Izzy decided to go back to Fiberhub where we were before, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
the servers should be shipped today and back up and running full throttle in a week. I say a week but Izzy stated by the end of this week if everything goes as planned, so fri/sat for those who dont wanna look at a calendar lol, and NO this did NOT stem from a DOS attack as some have stated. When izzy gets a chance he will give us more details as they come in but thought you all should know what was going on.
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