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ItsLawrence

Upcoming Scheduled Server Downtime
« on: 6 Sep 2016, 19:01:41 »
UPDATE: The server is now back online!


Just to inform you that starting from this Friday (9th) evening (UK time) until potentially late into the weekend the server (Noobstown.com) is likely to be down and as such unavailable.

The downtime is to facilitate the transfer of information and connections from the existing hardware to the new machine that we'll be using moving forward. We can't avoid downtime sadly, as to ensure that the new machine is showing the most up-to-date version of the worlds :); I'll try to work as fast as I can to get things all ready and moved over to the new hardware though.

As we have an enormous amount of data to transfer and many different connections, etc. to set up I really can't give a good estimate of how long this might actually take until it actually occurs, so be aware that it could potentially result in downtime for the whole weekend (but hopefully not :P). The downtime will begin from 6pm BST on Friday the 9th of September (what's that in my timezone?) though. I'll be sure to make a post here once the server is back up so keep checking back every so often :) you might also notice some changes to things on the site here once it's up again :D.

While we're down the TeamSpeak server (voice.noobstown.com) and this site should be up still, but they also both may experience minimal downtime as we have to adjust things to point at the new hardware. Nothing will be lost so don't worry about that, this is just to transfer everything over :).

I hope you'll all understand the need for this downtime. Once it's complete I'll also be making a post outlining what specifically are my plans for the server moving forward, it's a big move for Noobstown :D! Any questions, just ask.

- ItsLawrence


All of our other domains which point at Noobstown.com and the Noobstown game server (such as Noobs.town) will also be unavailable during this time. Any of you who use the direct server IP to connect to Noobstown.com too, that will cease to work after this downtime.
« Last Edit: 10 Sep 2016, 05:56:52 by ItsLawrence »

ItsLawrence

Re: Upcoming Scheduled Server Downtime
« Reply #1 on: 10 Sep 2016, 05:57:20 »
The server is now back online. You can read more at: https://www.noobscraft.com/server/we-re-back/.