The New Sever

**booyah8876** · 09-02-2008, 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by lvramire

I guess it's a toss-up between a server company that lags like hell or one that doesn't tell you about maintenances?

/shrug

Originally Posted by SKiNG

To sum it up. Our server host decided to do their own maintenance without any notice to us and it screwed up certain parts of our game. Not just Fiesta, Solstice was also affected. Someone over there is in BIG trouble.

We're changing hosts this weekend.

You're the only person other than me that I've seen think of it that way.

I would rather have lag now, than risking my entire char being messed up because they decided to do some maintenance unannounced.

**Hessah** · 09-02-2008, 02:52 AM

But their maintenance only delayed our maintenance for a few hrs...

it just means we cant play for a night or w/e...

but now.. i had trouble just walking around... u hv no idea how many times i "ran into mobs" coz i keep getting zapped back and appear where i didnt think that I would appear..

I had to use twice the amount of stones on my mage.. coz my skill wouldnt cast at normal cool down times..

they can easily fix the maintenance time... people learn to notify others... but the entire server lagging is more of a permanent issue than a one off maintenace..

i mean it sounds right for outspark to change host coz the old server did something wrong.. but... switch for the worse? I rather have the old one back...

**Ivramire** · 09-02-2008, 04:55 AM

Noone knows what the lag will be like a little while from now with these servers, I'm sure they're doing everything they can to get servers that are quite a bit less laggy. I think it lagged like hell too the first time they changed, but like booyah said I'd prefer information integrity over lag.

I'm sure they can always change servers/reduce lag but a character once lost in a maintenance mix-up might never comne back =/

**Hessah** · 09-02-2008, 05:06 AM

i sure hope they have a backup server / database thingy for that...

I've never really heard of any host losing /messing up an entire database? o-o surely its common sense and knowledge that everything needs to be backed up?

or that i hvnt heard, doesnt mean it has never happened.... hmmmm

yeah well i'm pretty sure this lag is only temporary too... it just sounds like u guys prefer to have a server that keeps everything organised but lags permanently than hving a server that runs smoothly but gives unexpected maintenance..

i would actually prefer smooth run, and unexpected maintenace.. provided that outspark backs up their own database (which is wat i assume they do every monday night?)

**Loveless** · 09-02-2008, 05:09 AM

I think that even if a company did do regular back-ups an unnotified maintenance on the server side when they should've known Outspark was going to have a rather large update is not a very good thing. And y'never know maybe the old server providers decided to be a jerk about it too.

Destrus · 09-02-2008, 05:18 AM

what happened? don't think i was active around here during the update

**Ivramire** · 09-02-2008, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by Hessah

i sure hope they have a backup server / database thingy for that...

I've never really heard of any host losing /messing up an entire database? o-o surely its common sense and knowledge that everything needs to be backed up?

or that i hvnt heard, doesnt mean it has never happened.... hmmmm

The closest thing I know to that is 'White Wednesday' in KoL (Kingdom of Loathing) It wasn't the server-hosts who did it though.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

On Wednesday, October 26, 2005, Jick accidentally deleted several data tables during rollover, causing all users' alternate ascension inventories (at Hagnk's) to be reverted back to their previous state as of September 6. This accident has come to be known as "White Wednesday." It took more than 32 hours for Jick to bring the game back online because he had to use the full backup from September.

They turned it to their advantage.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

As an apology, all players received a special item called petrified time. The developers created new game content in the form of temporal rifts that sent players backwards and forwards in time and provided an in-storyline explanation for the accident, referred to as "The Great Time Catastrophe." In the following weeks, Jick and the Asymmetric Publications staff worked to restore valuable items to players who had lost them. By December 2005, most of the temporal rifts closed, although one remains as a permanent feature.

I wish Outspark could do things like that xD

**Hessah** · 09-02-2008, 05:23 AM

They better learn from history!!!!

zenna_yu · 09-02-2008, 05:27 AM

Well. All I can say is outspark has to know that their bread and butter is satsified players. All the money they make from the cash shop will begin to disappear if the players start dropping because of lag. I have a feeling the lag issues will be resolved eventually.