Sufran Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 At present, I expect they’re switching lowly hamsters for something a tad more robust like chilchillas. Where did you think the extra capacity for launch was coming from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choboon Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 "You can say your *****ed your finger, just don't say you fingered your *****." For some reason, your post reminded me of that. George Carlin... Also, leave the Hamsters alone or Boo will be very angry. You do not want Boo to be angry, he is smarter than you !!! Also everybody knows that the main power cable gets connected to the forum servers during maintenance to extract energy from all the hate...heat...both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davesurfer Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Thy watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_-5sNkAuzE I hate you for this!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrii Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 George Carlin... Also, leave the Hamsters alone or Boo will be very angry. You do not want Boo to be angry, he is smarter than you !!! Also everybody knows that the main power cable gets connected to the forum servers during maintenance to extract energy from all the hate...heat...both Majik is gud, but now MINSC RULES!!!!; SWORDS FOR EVERYONE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmjarec Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 They reboot the actual hardware, update the software and in some cases like now, work on increasing in-game server capacity. so basically screwing things up worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasj Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 haha gotta love reading this thread, But when launching this game, A BIG MMO, why not go all out and buy the best hardware from start? so, how can they upgrade the best hardware? I guess they could do alittle tweaking on the servers. Server: Im full Operator: Force, you are only half-full Server: Im half-full Anyway! shouldint they be back up now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frighty Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Thy watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_-5sNkAuzE Argh... No... Make it stop... I'm being pulled in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetroPolice Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Oiling the hamster wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-Funk Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) Have you ever let your computer run non stop for a week? You ever notice how slow it is after a while? The cache starts to build up, file systems get fragmented, little ghosts start popping up in the machine, before you know it Hugo Weaving is turning all your desktop icons into clones of himself. Its a nightmare. Now imagine a computer a million times bigger than yours, running at loads yours never does and using up bandwidth that you WISH you could match on your best Torrenting night. That puppy needs some love and care. Think of it like a pit stop for a race car. NASCAR or Formula 1 cars are pretty much the pinnacle of automotive performance design. These things go like crazy, but they need serious maintenance to keep them in the zone. An MMO server is no different. Just imagine Stephen Reid standing over a car engine while some nerd works on it saying 'look my twitter box is blowing up... can you go any faster?' "Stephen... I"m an artist." "Alright fine." SR looks at his phone- "You have 372 new tweets" "FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU:mad: Edited December 16, 2011 by P-Funk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya_Halberd Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I hate you for this!!! <3 @ you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellbrass Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 haha gotta love reading this thread, But when launching this game, A BIG MMO, why not go all out and buy the best hardware from start? so, how can they upgrade the best hardware? It takes time to breed the best Hamsters, you forget that for every new server they have to get two hamsters together, make a nice meal, play a little Barry White. Without that spark of romance, you've got nothing to power your game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceDrake Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 They also, in all likelihood, create a backup of the data image of the server. This is a crucial bit of MMO maintenence that is often a bit hard/annoying to do when servers are live and running. Imagine this: someone spills coffee on the server and it takes out all the hard drives. All of them. Somehow. It's like a keg of coffee or something. Either way, normally you've lost all the player data and everyone would have to start over from zero. If you have a backup, though, you can simply load that onto your replacement hard drives and keep going. Rollbacks in such a situation can suck, but it sure beats the alternative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasj Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 They also, in all likelihood, create a backup of the data image of the server. This is a crucial bit of MMO maintenence that is often a bit hard/annoying to do when servers are live and running. Imagine this: someone spills coffee on the server and it takes out all the hard drives. All of them. Somehow. It's like a keg of coffee or something. Either way, normally you've lost all the player data and everyone would have to start over from zero. If you have a backup, though, you can simply load that onto your replacement hard drives and keep going. Rollbacks in such a situation can suck, but it sure beats the alternative. DUH! icloud!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radziopl Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Hamsters have been fed and cleaned up Server are UP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradadad Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 The first step in any healthy server would be deamagnify the base articulators in the :C, , and usually :F drives. The :E drives, if you even have one will be best left alone to reaticulate on its own or with the Norton Enterprise redundant re-articulation service (depending on how many magnets the :E drive supports. Next, vacuuming out the dust with an incredibly powerful vacuum cleaner ( I have seen them they are the size of a small car) , because just a spec of dust can grind even the most sturdy Apple ~I Beam Rack Laser Servers. I'm making the assumption they are using this ~I Beam technology because it is the industry standard. Then of course defrag AFTER the prior steps are completed. I'm sure someone else in the industry can validate these steps. There is more of course but what I posted is the defacto standard for pre and post catalytic rack server technologies past 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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