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First up we have finished the maintenance on Inca! We've restored all the data so data is now available once again as are all the other services.
Secondly this means that Inca is now running at gigabit speed (it was one of the few machines we have that wasn't yet) so you should see a slight improvement of speed.
Secondly, now that phrase one has been completed we can begin phase two - the work on Olmec. So although all the data on Inca is now available, you won't be able to access it via FTP as we're taking the FTP server offline :p.
Seriously, Olmec is being taken offline while we conduct some maintenance. We're making lots of hardware and software changes so it could be offline for an extended period of time. We'll keep you up to date.
We're finishing this maintenance window as we need some of the services back online. As usual there are a few complications though (would we really have it any other way with computers :p).
We're half way through getting everything set up. At the moment we have brought all the services up so all the communication services are back. The only thing we are missing is the data store due to the hard drive replacement (as I write the new one is formatting).
If all goes well we shouldn't actually require any more downtime as everything we need to do now can be done while the server is live. Watch this space for more updates.
Inca will be offline for the next hour as we carry out some maintenance. As well as bringing everything up to date on the system we are doing some hardware maintenance so there may be more downtime to come if things don't all go to plan.
We're increasing the network connectively by adding another network port and replacing one of the hard drives so it's no easy task. Once it is back online it will take us some time to restore the data. If everything goes to plan it will all be back by tomorrow morning. If not, we'll let you know :p.
Inca and Olmec will both be down for a short period this evening as maintenence work is carried out on them to bring them up to date. It should be finished by 21:00 GMT at the latest.
You may have noticed a lot of our sites have been online over the weekend. This is because of some security issues we ran into that were serious enough for us to pull the main web server until they had been resolved.
The aftermath of which is that we still have a lot of work to do in checking over our network to ensure everything is secure. This also leads onto the a wider problem which means we are going to have to make some changes.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there who are just simply bad people. This people thrive on other people's misery, hacking, destroying and spamming. They are the scum of the earth up, up there with pedophiles and people who talk at the theatre.
The Worfolk Online network as always had a philosophy of keeping our legacy sites online so people have access to as much content as possible and because the internet currently suffers from big problems in terms of content only being available for short periods. How many pages have existed for more than 18 months? Not many. This results in many dead links as pages appear and disappear while annoys and flustrates all of us.
Unfortunately we simply can't keep a network the size of ours secure and safe from from all the scum out there. So we're going to begin culling our network quite dramatically. Our important sites will be kept online of course and we hope to keep most of them online. But a lot will disappear. So enjoy them while you can.
Basically, everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong. We've had like the world's most unlucky day.
We've completed most of the software updates but the hardware installation has been delayed. We should be doing some of it later today and the rest at a later date.
We're about to undertake quite a bit of work at our Burchett Place datacenter which will affect quite a few of the servers. Full details are below.
Firstly we are upgrading the backup power supply systems of Zapotec, Aztec, Olmec and Nazca which will take them all offline for a brief period of time. Secondly we are installing new management systems on Inca and Zapotec which will then take them offline.
Finally we are installing some new hardware in Inca which will take it offline for a little longer period of time. We will also be installing some software updates while we are having some downtime to make sure that everything is up to date.
This maintenance will begin at approximately 14:30 GMT today.
I said I would post when Aztec came back online. And then forgot.
Sorry :D. Aztec was brought back online a few hours ago and is up and running as normal. We managed to carry out the maintenance without having to take Nazca offline at all so all is well there too.
Due to some hardware problems with a different server we are having to take Aztec offline for the indefinite future (on the same day we finally got it online and everything).
It might not take that long but I would imagine that it will be down for a good couple of hours and could well be down for a few days.
Nazca may go offline for short periods of time again while we are moving things around although if all goes well we will be able to keep it online.
A heads up on a few services. First of all, Aztec will be up and running on a regular basis within the hour. We're just sorting the final few things out now.
Secondly, Nazca will be offline for the next 15 minutes while we move a few things round.
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