Extended Maintenance - 07/27/11

[Henhouse]

I will be performing an extended maintenance tonight to implement new content updates as well as some minor character cleanups. Estimated no more than 10 minutes of downtime. The shutdown will begin around 12PM Eastern US Time. (06:00 server time).

- What is major in this new content release?
Alterac Valley re-implementation. It's now back in, but a different way this time, new and improved with dailies, it's part of the rotation system, etc. More information on set times for battlegrounds will come soon.

[Gabyerx]

Good to hear

[Scruffee]

Thanks for the hard work, Hen!

[Henhouse]

Why in the hell does it take a dedicated server 10 minutes to reboot? I honestly think someone is running around in the datacenter manually pushing a restart button or something because it's always like 3-15 minutes long and it's getting pretty scary. I want to just stop rebooting the entire server then. :/

Still waiting on it to come back online... O_o

[Henhouse]

Submitted a support request, this is not right.

[Henhouse]

Okay the guy fixed it and the server is back... I still wanted to run those character cleanups. About a little over a month back I was realizing that the feature we have that saves characters for 30 days after they are deleted before they are dropped was causing slow startup time, as well as freezes if the server was up for 24 hours and it decided to drop off the 30+ day old deleted characters during the server being online. So I simply disabled it so that they stayed in the database when they were deleted so I could clear them at maintenances.

So I'm doing that now... 17,574 characters were deleted in the past 30+ days since that, that are being removed now... That is going to take... a little while. O_o