EZ Server

I will be bringing the server down at approx 3PM CST to move services over to the new hardware.

I will update when done.

She's up and a purrin!

• Running at 16 processor cores instead of 8 which should help the simultaneous zone thread load.
  
• 35GB of memory, committed quite a bit more than normal to database caching
• The database and server are running on 4 x 120GB Samsung 840 Pros in Raid5.
• Will finish up other things such as tieing in Character mover and such back in.

Seems a quite a bit snappier, at the software level we had things quite optimized in the last big code update so hard to notice much difference in somethings that were already tuned hardcore.

Did a test in Sanctus Seru, killed 800 NPC's simultaneously and the entire zone process finished all deaths within 1 second. The truth comes in the large population load, which I imagine we'll see with Double Loot being up until Saturday night.

Thanks again Crabthewall for your many hours taking care of the server, re-fitting it for server rack form factor. RMAing the hardware and upgrading all the firmware and sweating over the server bench for us for several dozen hours. Very much appreciated.

Thanks to Rogean for providing the rackspace that we currently use and our DC connection which provides us 2Gbps up/down internet backbone.

Thanks for patience all. Enjoy!



Thanks,
-Akka

Right now we're fitting the hardware with new bulgarian hamsters (4 of them, one for each processor core). Once we get them in the harnesses and get the food/water trickling, it should be working again.


-Hate

I am not sure what was wrong with the old hardware.. I thought the server was smoking....(not due to being overworked... but smoking fast). Guess I missed that thread...

Mix

We're moving back to the original hardware that EZ was on which has been thoroughly upgraded.

What has made the server 'smoking fast' was all of the software based optimizations, some of it was hardware.

One thing of note is that we'll be moving on an array of solid state drives.

Hardware is courtesy of Crabthewall and the EZ community.

http://ezserver.online/forums/index.php?topic=4248.msg54179#msg54179

Dont you mean adding the meth drip again Hate come on be honest we know you have all them hamsters on something and i dont think adderol will do it :P

LoL are you serious? Hamsters aren't as smart (or whiny) as we are. Throw some vegetable pellets in front of them and they'll run forever. Keep 4 running, 1 ready to replace the first dead.


-Hate

..no comment

Hate think fugi wants you to stop calling him a hamster

I thought hate was the hamster i mean we are making him run and all we dangle in front of him is more problems! lol

VM state transfers is taking longer than I wanted. I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting for progress bars. Sorry for the wait.

Its all good Akka we know how much work you guys are putting into the server lets just hope this drums up some of them ppl who need to be on the site to accuatly log and and see it!

Its a shame, the state of affairs the world is in, when we're forced to settle for Bulgarian hamsters. Ukrainian hamsters are sooooo much faster, and more durable!

And they work for peanuts!

After what Danish did to the last Ukrainian hamsters they refuse to work for us anymore....said it was inhamster treatment

EZ ZOMBIES UNITE!

now is DL being enforced, or just being flipped from 1 to 2?

are we talking akka with is nut kicking boot and bat or just akka whistling as he walks by flipping the switch?

what he forgot to tell you is its double loot but he is going to lock the server until tomorrow morning

Only friday night? Aww.. how about til Saturday night  for those who might only get a couple hours tonight after we're back up   ;)
Or midday if it's something that can be switched off without a restart.

Yea, how about enable tomorrow morning w/server reboot and take down sunday w/reboot? Its been a long week. PLEASE!!!!!!!!

A) This is to get you back the progression hours ya missed. :-)
B) You kids just came off of July 4th DL. Damn addicts, I tell ya h'wut.


-Hate

I had to work all of july 4th weekend  :-\

fricking pitch forks and torches!!!

DOUBBBBBLLEEEE OH YEAH LOOOT GET SOME WEEKEND!!!!


get the mt dew out bastards!!

taco hell all weekend long baby

me too bro, me too. but 8pm tomorrow night and I'm on vacation for a week! oh yeah

If this takes longer than 8:30 I might just push (enforce) DL until Saturday night.

I've been pissed.

Edit: It's better than being pissed on

Clicks the format button "Woops"

Has nothing to do with misconfiguration or formatting. The transfer of the VM files is taking a ridiculous amount of time since the initial transfer did not run correctly from server to server, (240GB of data). By correctly I mean a configuration issue, not a corruption issue.

And since we're currently running on Windows 08, I'll be ready to just flip (lots of work) all of the configurations over Windows 2012 while I wait. More performance increases etc.

All in all, not the end of the world.

They left the building for ninja training, those dr00ds are planning world domination.

This sucks by EZ being down you have made me pull out my RC Car (was still brand new) and play with it, in the zone "Real World"

I'm awaiting the purge... er.. enforcement of DL

essences or sls's essences or sls's!

SLS and t6

but im still stuck in t5 :P

Nooooo not the Qvics!!!!

Someone needs to defuse the bomb that is "Akkadius" I can hear the whistling coming from his ears from here!

You know, I missed like the last 500 double loots, so could you make it like 5000x loot cause I'll probably only play for half an hour or so.

im starting to feel bad about all the DL im going to miss tomorrow :(

I hate work bad

Cough Cough calls in sick for Rent

dude I can't call in sick cause I'm the boss LOL and it's the day before my vacation.  this blows

DL to celebrate Rents Vacation!!!!

It's only fair, my vacation was the first week of July.

=D

I know how you feel Rent, kinda wishing I hadn't decided to take today off. But what can ya do.

Hope Akka isn't banging his head against the wall too hard, we appreciate your hard work and dealing with this frustration.

Ahhh Man no Double loot love for the UK/Euro peeps... Show us some love Akk, It's almost 4am so it doesn't look like I'm going to get any time to play tonight so......

Cherries on top and all that..

Licra

Off to work, cya all tomorrow. GL with the lewtz and a hearty TY to Akk and Hate for the hard work. :)

Must of had a really bad spell hope everything ok Oo

im starting to itch and twitch and stuffs, ya know!

Thanks for all the frustration tho Akka and Hate, you guys are prolly pulling your hair out atm

How I imagine things are going:

(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/3311477/printer-smash-o.gif) (http://gifsoup.com/view/3311477/printer-smash.html)

Context video if you have never seen office space for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsBB93IqJkE

(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/52734515.jpg)

Funny - didn't realize the move was taking place. I wouldn't have minded checking in on the hardware after shipment/racking, but I'm sure all will be smooth. I'd schedule some raid verifies if they haven't taken place since I shipped out however.

Back up within about 15 minutes folks

I just passed out!

I came around and looked, server not up.....I passed out again..................

LOL

/revs computer....

I sees it on the server select screen YEAA!!!

She's up and a purrin!

• Running at 16 processor cores instead of 8 which should help the simultaneous zone thread load.
  
• 35GB of memory, committed quite a bit more than normal to database caching
• The database and server are running on 4 x 120GB Samsung 840 Pros in Raid5.
• Will finish up other things such as tieing in Character mover and such back in.

Seems a quite a bit snappier, at the software level we had things quite optimized in the last big code update so hard to notice much difference in somethings that were already tuned hardcore.

Did a test in Sanctus Seru, killed 800 NPC's simultaneously and the entire zone process finished all deaths within 1 second. The truth comes in the large population load, which I imagine we'll see with Double Loot being up until Saturday night.

Thanks again Crabthewall for your many hours taking care of the server, re-fitting it for server rack form factor. RMAing the hardware and upgrading all the firmware and sweating over the server bench for us for several dozen hours. Very much appreciated.

Thanks to Rogean for providing the rackspace that we currently use and our DC connection which provides us 2Gbps up/down internet backbone.

Thanks for patience all. Enjoy!



Thanks,
-Akka

(http://www.deathandglory.net/UserUploaded/mccoy.jpg)

No, he's very much alive but his loot is acting weird. Two items are dropping 2-5 times per kill but the rest of the server is fine.

Working as fast as I can!

-Hate

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EDIT: Brought server down, waiting for Akkadius to reply. Still blowing up his phone.


-Hate