Scheduled downtime all day tomorrow, 29th May 2013

[Dark0ne]

It seems like an age ago that I was here writing about our plans for stability through server clustering. It was a long time ago, a much longer time than I was anticipating or hoping, but we’re as ready as we’ll ever be to roll it out.

 

As a part of the original announcement I did say that we’d probably have some substantial downtime as we moved the site databases over to our new architecture. That downtime (perhaps one of a few planned downtimes) will be tomorrow. All day tomorrow in fact.

 

All is not lost, however. It’s not going to be a total downtime of all the sites, but rather this downtime will simply be for the forums. You might now be saying “ooooh that’s fine, I don’t use the forums”. You probably do use the forums, you just don’t know it, as the forums are used for file commenting, new user registrations and uploading new mods to the site. So during this downtime not only will you not be able to use the forums themselves, but you won’t be able to post new comments/topics, add new mods to any Nexus site or create a new account. You will still be able to browse the Nexus sites for mods and download as normal.

 

We’re expecting this downtime to start around about 10am GMT tomorrow and last all day, and then we’ll likely be spending most of Friday fixing problems that might arise and tweaking everything for performance. So it could be a rocky few days coming up, but the long term benefits should outweigh the short-term inconveniences.

 

Once the forums are working on the cluster we’ll be moving the larger Nexus sites over. Our smaller sites are already using the cluster (anything with less files than Dragon Age/Fallout 3). These sites might require some downtime but we’ll inform you before any work is scheduled to start.

 

Fingers crossed.

[warlordodin]

Oh my xD A day without full nexus usage! What am I to do? D: Actually play Skyrim?

[FloofyMomo]

NUUUU HOW SHALL I FIND THE PERFECT MOD!!!!

[Halendia]

I almost had a heart attack.

[spartenkiller897]

In response to post #8157183.

I feel the same way...

[devil0929]

In response to post #8157183. #8157327 is also a reply to the same post.

so do I!

[daventry]

When you know Horror stares you in the face, you take an Arrow in the Knee. Ching Ching Ching Ching

[Darkrogue21]

In response to post #8157183. #8157327, #8157354 are all replies on the same post.

Same here!

[neyel8r]

In response to post #8157183. #8157327, #8157354, #8157384 are all replies on the same post.

lol, i've been modding & testing much more than playing l8ely Edited May 29, 2013 by neyel8r

[HurrlingMercator]

Well damn. I guess I'll have to go outside and face the cold bleak world, instead of downloading awesome mods and tweaking my load order. :[

 

Edit: Whoops, nevermind about downloading! Though, the lack of seeing any new mods being uploaded will be saddening, along with being unable to comment.

Edited May 29, 2013 by Dain145