watching....

 

So that's what you're going to do with the old servers!

 

i'm thinking halo3 is gonna need to have faster servers than that.

 

They were insufficient for 100k posts/month, but for a dozen or so gamers, they'd be plenty.

 

yeah, halo3 really wasn't advertised well. or that much. i'm surprised anyone brought it up on here.

 

lol funny you say that I just read an article saying how microsoft spent so much money advertising and some gamers were getting annoyed with all the hype.

 

i guess my sarcasm was lost in translation.

 

OK, looks like we will be postponing the downtime. I will update this thread when we have more info. We'll be doing the maintenance either tomorrow or early next week, depending on how things go.

 

awesome, now I have somethin to do during work..haha.

 

haha ditto

 

makes 3 lol

 

i will be passing the time on ScionSmoke.com all day tomorrow then, come join me

 

guess i'll have to bring my ds to work tomorrow and play tetris.

 

Ahh.. I was hoping on an upgrade to the search engine..

Sux having to search via Google to find something on SL.. + the ability to search within "my posts" only would be VERY helpful as well.

 

watching.

 

We're waiting for an upstream networking issue to get sorted out. No ETA. Once that's sorted out, we can proceed.

 

man, for all of you guys who say "what am i gonna do at work now when SL is down for a server upgrade??"

let me know what jobs you guys have.

i love to get paid for surfing SL, or watching movies, or playing my nintendo ds.

 

Why are you guys thinking you would have a considerable amount of downtime anyway? What type of servers are you putting the site on?

 

Most of the time will be occupied with dumping the database, copying the dump to the new machine, and loading it into the new database. This forum has millions of posts, and it takes awhile for a database server to bring in that kind of data. It also takes awhile to rebuild the indexes, which are optimizations that allow the database server to look things up very quickly. (Pretty important when you want to get one post out of a table containing millions.)

 

did you consider archive'ing some of the data since you know the site will always grow?