Day: October 15, 2009

Lucan D’Lere is now back up on the previous hardware. Rothgar fills us in: Lucan up! Sorry again for the issues this morning and those of you that lost some progress during the maintenance.  We learned a lot from the migration.  You can’t imagine how big of a step this is behind the scenes.  Well, those of you in IT probably can.  We’ll let you know our plan for round 2 as soon as we have the migration process fixed. Commentary Believe me Rothgar, I do. 🙂 Having migrated FeldonCentral from shared hosting, to VPS, to a previous dedicated...

Butcherblock and Nagafen are currently unlocked. They are rolled back to their state at 5am. Any quests, progress, loot, etc. you acquired after this time has unfortunately been lost. Lucan D’Lere should be up shortly. Another attempt will be made to upgrade EQ2 servers to 64-bit platform in the next few days.

It turns out that those Database Upgrades announced for today for Butcherblock, Nagafen, and Lucan D’Lere were in fact complete replacements of the server hardware with 64-bit servers. This is very exciting news, as this has the potential to solve a lot of lag and performance problems. However all has not gone according to plan. Rothgar posted yesterday: All three (Butcherblock, Nagafen, Lucan D’Lere) are getting new hardware, latest DB version and upgrade from 32 to 64 bit. Rothgar reported early today that Nagafen was back in operation: The server is back up and you have new database hardware. ...