Milambers

So yesterday it was announced that the merge between Nagafen and Venekor was being delayed due to an upgrade in the hardware and software of the Nagafen Server:


Rothgar wrote:

Just an FYI, we've been evaluating the DB upgrade for almost a year. This is not something to take lightly. We've had the new database version running in our QA environment for quite awhile. Deciding to push this new version to a live server in under one month's time has risks of its own, but we feel this choice is by far better than going forward with the merge on existing hardware and risking performance problems that make the game unplayable.

This is not only a move to new hardware and a new database version, but also a move from 32bit to 64bit. This will allow us to allocate a significantly larger amount of memory towards the database cache which translates to much better performance for you.

We know you want the merge to happen asap and postponing it was not something we did lightly. We looked at every other option for insuring a smooth transition and felt that the other options could pose bigger issues. It's difficult to gauge what impact the merge will have on the database hardware but we know that Nagafen is already under a bit of strain.

When the merge is behind us and we've had a chance to see the new DB hardware in action, we'll make a plan for migrating the rest of the servers.

According to the last line, sometime in the future (lol) all servers can expect this upgrade too. Now, I don't know much about servers, but this seems like it would have a noticable difference on server lag.

About fucking time imo!

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dakster

I expected this to happen, but theyre acting like venekor is the size of Nagafen, yeah not so much.

Drama queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.

Kendayar

Still have to keep up with all the old characters and other info on Venekor's DB

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Pudaan

I'll bet all my plat the upgrade doesnt effect anything but more downtime!

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Pink Poodle

Yeah but if Nagafen's server thing is shaky and all that, adding the handful of Venekor players would not help.

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Hoss

Ahh sweet, so SOE finally decided to use test servers?

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Flaming Homo

Does this mean they're upgrading to 80386 based servers running dBase III?

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Kampfer

Sweet, can't wait to see how it works. At least crushbone isn't going to be the guinea pig

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Hoss

It was either use PvP as a guinea pig or the European servers.

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