Server downtime for world upgrade
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:53 pm
Originally we planned to do the world upgrade in the background, at all times. But as it turns out, the upgrader did not add a constant factor of lag, it caused occasional hickups in the server, so this plan did not work.
We've now been trying to do the upgrade only when nobody is online, but there have been almost no such times.
So we're now going to try the next solution, taking the server temporarily offline to do the upgrade at full speed. I estimate that this will take no more than 5-7 days.
The server will be taken down 1 week from now, on December 5th. It will remain down until the world upgrade is complete, unless progress is slower than expected, in which case we'll reopen the server and figure out our next step.
While the main server is down, a temporary server will be open in its place. This temporary server will be in a completely fresh world. Nothing from the temporary server will carry over to the main server. We've done these temporary servers before, and there's usually a lot of activity as everybody is near spawn and it's low consequences compared to the main server.
We've now been trying to do the upgrade only when nobody is online, but there have been almost no such times.
So we're now going to try the next solution, taking the server temporarily offline to do the upgrade at full speed. I estimate that this will take no more than 5-7 days.
The server will be taken down 1 week from now, on December 5th. It will remain down until the world upgrade is complete, unless progress is slower than expected, in which case we'll reopen the server and figure out our next step.
While the main server is down, a temporary server will be open in its place. This temporary server will be in a completely fresh world. Nothing from the temporary server will carry over to the main server. We've done these temporary servers before, and there's usually a lot of activity as everybody is near spawn and it's low consequences compared to the main server.