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Is the server down, and has been down, for the entirety of the day? It seems like no one is talking about it on the forums, and as such, I wonder if I am the only one missing something or other.

Any help would be appreciated.

It's been down the whole day. Forums just came back up only a few minutes ago.

They are updating it but obviously something went wrong. It´s been down now for 14 hours. I wonder also, when it will be back up again

Eh, it will be back when it's back. Just sit in chat and abuse people, thats what we usually do.

It went down because Windows Update has a bug that shuts the server down instead of doing what the button says, ie, "install updates and restart computer".

Sounds like you should upgrade it to a computer with LOM. You could then power up the computer remotely, VPN, start the NWN server.

That's all Mags' business, his computer.

Mountain of Madness wrote:

Sounds like you should upgrade it to a computer with LOM. You could then power up the computer remotely, VPN, start the NWN server.

The downside. Downtime for the server would be longer while doing this. Unless it's prepared on an alternative harddrive, and then just hotswitch the HD.

Well, technically the problem comes from it being a windows server. But that was Mag's choice.

It could be worse though, it could be a Mac server.

As soon as Disco said ten minutes, my friends were betting how many hours it would be

Galenson wrote:

Well, technically the problem comes from it being a windows server. But that was Mag's choice.

It could be worse though, it could be a Mac server.

Don't say that! Oh gods I'll have nightmares for ages!

Also, server's back up. Wonder what was updated.

It was a regular, automatic Windows Update, as said. Nothing fancier.

Nekhy wrote:

It was a regular Windows Update, as said. Nothing fancier.

Well there was also an update earlier then. *Looks at the annoucement post for july 6th*

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Yurell wrote:

As soon as Disco said ten minutes, my friends were betting how many hours it would be

A marathon love machine and modest about it!

(Or just impotent.)

Selvec Darkon wrote:

Well there was also an update earlier then. *Looks at the annoucement post for july 6th*

Yups, but that has nothing to do with the server being down (except for the bug part).

Kjetta wrote:

Yurell wrote:

As soon as Disco said ten minutes, my friends were betting how many hours it would be

A marathon love machine and modest about it!

(Or just impotent.)

I knew about this little bug, in fact. I once shut down the server the same way myself, it's easy to be fooled by it (remember that it really says "update and restart", not "update and shut down"). But alas, I was in the kitchen getting a drink and didn't make it in time to stop him from pressing the nasty little button...

Still, blame MicroSoft. For once they truly deserve it.

Nekhy wrote:

Still, blame MicroSoft. For once they truly deserve it.

They don't normally?

Kjetta wrote:

Yurell wrote:

As soon as Disco said ten minutes, my friends were betting how many hours it would be

A marathon love machine and modest about it!

(Or just impotent.)

I'll check my watch the next 10 times and give you an average.

Anyway, when the server shuts down it kinda ...shuts down, which means we can't reach it because it doesn't do a lot.

Any statistical data yet?

Also ... is it just me, or is the forum really slow sometimes, especially in the last 2 weeks or so?

Regards, Ts

Ts_ wrote:

Any statistical data yet?

Also ... is it just me, or is the forum really slow sometimes, especially in the last 2 weeks or so?

Regards, Ts

I think it's just you ... the forums are as fast as the rest of my internet for me (or that may be just me

).

To clarify:
The forum usually loads very (!) fast. Once in a while, requests take forever (10-20s?) with nothing happening and then the page loads as quickly as usual. This occurs for a few pages, then it's back to normal again. I experienced this on different ISPs, systems, browsers ... Might still be me, dunno.

Regards, Ts

It's really flaky for me.

Been that way for quite a long while now, many months.

Not this bad. I remember Mags setting the NWN servers to max priority which kinda strangled the forums. Perhaps the reboot returned it to those settings again.

Ts_ wrote:

The forum usually loads very (!) fast. Once in a while, requests take forever (10-20s?) with nothing happening and then the page loads as quickly as usual. This occurs for a few pages, then it's back to normal again.

Me too. I had thought it was just my ISP or my computer, but I guess not.

I've had no issues. Seem's fine to me.

Galenson wrote:

It could be worse though, it could be a Mac server.

Bioware pretty much put all their eggs into Windows. I'm not surprised if their Mac version is complete rubbish.

It also doesn't make any sense why'd they even bother. The Linux version runs on OS X anyway, or any POSIX UNIX/Linux OS.

Xaviera wrote:

Ts_ wrote:

The forum usually loads very (!) fast. Once in a while, requests take forever (10-20s?) with nothing happening and then the page loads as quickly as usual. This occurs for a few pages, then it's back to normal again.

Me too. I had thought it was just my ISP or my computer, but I guess not.

Me three. It's happened to me a few times now.

I think someone watched the wrong kind of internet video on the host computer.....*cough*.....windows is just an excuse, let's catch this conspiracy while we can...

o0GuNz_N_RoSeZ0o wrote:

Xaviera wrote:

Ts_ wrote:

The forum usually loads very (!) fast. Once in a while, requests take forever (10-20s?) with nothing happening and then the page loads as quickly as usual. This occurs for a few pages, then it's back to normal again.

Me too. I had thought it was just my ISP or my computer, but I guess not.

Me three. It's happened to me a few times now.

I've always had slow internet, and the access isn't any slower.
10s-20s is normal for me >.>

I never have any issues with the forums.

Regards,

Haven't had any forum issues here either, and I'd likely notice, because my wireless internet IS having issues (constantly losing the connection), so any flakiness unrelated to losing my connection would cause even more frustration than I'm already feeling.

*spends the next 20 minutes cursing about unreliable wireless routers*

Cori wrote:

Haven't had any forum issues here either, and I'd likely notice, because my wireless internet IS having issues (constantly losing the connection), so any flakiness unrelated to losing my connection would cause even more frustration than I'm already feeling.

*spends the next 20 minutes cursing about unreliable wireless routers*

I think they are all like that. When I had the wireless router did I get disconnects all the time, things would load, but playing online was impossible.

But yes, it was a few times quite slow for me too, no idea what it was though. And its gone by now.

Or maybe it's based on our geography and of the server?

true that. everything is nice and smooth for me, and i'm sure living in the same state as the host helps abit.

I don't think it'd be geography, otherwise there'd be a very noticeable difference between the US, Europe and here.

Most likely down to the service provider, or the quality of the router.

Xaviera wrote:

Ts_ wrote:

The forum usually loads very (!) fast. Once in a while, requests take forever (10-20s?) with nothing happening and then the page loads as quickly as usual. This occurs for a few pages, then it's back to normal again.

Me too. I had thought it was just my ISP or my computer, but I guess not.

Same here, doesn't happen often though.

Suffering from the same forum "lag" not even clearing the cookies or other stuff seems to help.

I have got a pretty high speed connection, and my speeds to almost every other website is excellent...except for Amia.

Its very very bad. I had to try 3 times just to open this page today, and twice more to actually post this message.

Really? I haven't had any problems with them.

fireprooftroll wrote:

I have got a pretty high speed connection, and my speeds to almost every other website is excellent...except for Amia.

Its very very bad. I had to try 3 times just to open this page today, and twice more to actually post this message.

I've never had any problem to that degree, that does sound like something wrong with the server though.
Although my connexion is really bad, it rarely fails to load a page.

Mountain of Madness wrote:

Sounds like you should upgrade it to a computer with LOM. You could then power up the computer remotely, VPN, start the NWN server.

The server they are running Amia from (DL145 G2) has Lights Out 100, since it, or iLO, was introduced to most every HP server around October 2002. Not nearly as easy to use as iLO2, but it gets the job done.

I get this problem occassionally as well. Pages just fail to load or take a painfully long time to do so. Nothing helps when that happens to me, just returning later.

It may just be me, but...

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