10 Hours Maintenance Downtime? Perhaps something big?

tbp · 2012-07-08, 07:31 AM

Anyone else think 10 hours PS1 maintenance downtime today may be for something big? Hopefully

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Dorest0rm · 2012-07-08, 07:36 AM

They're adding 2gb ram to the server.

InfraRed · 2012-07-08, 07:38 AM

More importantly, how much time is left of the 10hours???

Edit: seems like we've got around 5 hours left of downtime, whereas it's just gone lunch time in Europe so it's going to eat into prime time today

tbp · 2012-07-08, 07:48 AM

Nice one desertstorm lol. I bet they've got some hefty server clusters running things back there. More like adding 2TB RAM lol. It seems to me they just cant handle the player numbers on PS1 now lots of the vets have come back. They've probably scaled down the server capability over the years due to the drop in player numbers. The ping time to EU has also been appawling this week.
I believe 10hrs downtime = 17:30 GMT will be back up.

I'm hoping they've taken down the systems to fork in a new/revised launchpad and login systems for Planetside2 beta testers.
Anyone seen any hints or comments from the devs what the downtime is for. The SOE Dev desciprtion is completely generic, which is odd for them.

fredthedeadhead · 2012-07-08, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by Dorest0rm

They're adding 2gb ram to the server.

Wow, they're letting the PlanetSide server have 2.25GBs of RAM?!

Erendil · 2012-07-08, 08:00 AM

The PlanetSide servers will go offline tonight, Saturday, July 7th at 11:30 PM Pacific Time for maintenance. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately 10 hours.

It's 5AM PST now, so another ~4.5 hours to go.

Wings · 2012-07-08, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by Dorest0rm

They're adding 2gb ram to the server.

We're did you get this from?

Surely it Dosent take 10hours to fit 1stick of ram.

Pella · 2012-07-08, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by Wings

We're did you get this from?

Surely it Dosent take 10hours to fit 1stick of ram.

Hes Kidding.

Either migrating the whole server, Or a large upgrade. Dont forgot its sunday so staff are not in work. So 10 hours and then 2 hours for someone to pop in and sort it out.

ringring · 2012-07-08, 08:03 AM

I think Higby has said they have had a major network issue at SOE and are having to install new equipment.... still 10 hours!

tbp · 2012-07-08, 08:07 AM

Yeah, looks like server issues, see Highbys Tweets here: http://twitter.com/mhigby

Was hoping it was fork in work to start PS2 Beta

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QuantumMechanic · 2012-07-08, 07:54 AM

I'm thinking something kinda seriously bad has happened to the PS1 database. Usual maintenance takes less than an hour.

So either a database hardware failure or some type of data corruption due to today's event. Most likely due to data corruption they are doing a database restore from earlier today, which could take the 10 or so hours given.

It must have been a great Old Oshur event! Too bad I missed it ;(

Wings · 2012-07-08, 10:58 AM

SOE planetside forums are down now, says server outage.