Site Maintenance

During this period the website and forums will be unavailable.

Technical Difficulties

Apologies to all for the extended downtime these past couple of days. We (as you probably know) exceeded our monthly bandwidth quota and it ended up taking quite a while for our hosting providers to respond to my support request and top it back up. This event has highlighted two problems in my mind.

One, is that it has taken far too long for our current host to get this sorted out. I guess that perhaps they may have been extra busy these past few days, but even so, a simple email explaining that situation would have been helpful.

Two, and probably more importantly, it looks like we need more bandwidth to prevent this from happening again.

So I think the time has come for us to move on and upgrade to a bigger and better host. That will then allow us the freedom to use more bandwidth intensive features (such as a hosted gallery or a wiki if needs be) if we ever have the desire to do so. I’m still looking through options, but overall I think it is going to be a good move for the site.

Thanks again for persevering, and I’ll let you all know when it’s time to move!

Technical Difficulties

My hosting providers were unable to fix the problem directly so had to contact cPanel support to get the problem fixed, hence the delay in getting the site back up.

Apologies again for the downtime, however I will take this opportunity to remind everyone that in the event of our site being inaccessible, to keep an eye on our twitter account as it is used to post updates as they come to hand.

Birthday

It was about this time last year that I switched the forums on and told the FSF SotW crew that the forums were open for business.

The site was launched with the hope of giving SotW a place to call home once Hellgate: London was shut down. Thankfully a year later, SotW is still alive and strong and we haven’t let the guild die alongside the game that brought it together.

So thanks for the good times guys, and hopefully there will be many more years of gaming to come yet!

Site Maintenance

This now makes the forum a lot sparser but also reflects the fact that at the moment we don’t have a flagship game that the majority of the guild is playing.

However, there is another game that some members of the guild have recently started playing and so it has also been added to the Other Games section of the forums.

Requiem: Bloodymare is a free to play MMO, so why not download it and give it a test run. It is also celebrating it’s one year anniversary at the moment so there is increased experience, drops, and lant (gold) throughout this month.

If you do try out the game, be sure to post about it in the forums so your character can be added to the in game guild.

Site Maintenance

2 of our major servers, Sphinx & Mason are scheduled to be moved on the public holiday weekend of 11th and 12th of April, 2009

The server will be shut down and physically moved to the new location. We expect a downtime of roughly 10-15 minutes for the physical move.

It is likely that the servers will do a filesystem check when it is booted up. This may take anywhere between 15 minutes and a few hours depending on the size of the filesystem and it is almost impossible to gauge an actual timeframe on this process.

During this period the website and forums will be unavailable.

If I receive any additional information between now and then, I will update this post as well as the related thread on the forums.

Technical Difficulties

Well after a full day of downtime the home page is back in action. Apologies to all of those who did not see my Xfire or Twitter messages, and were wondering what was going on.

At 4:30am yesterday I received an email from my hosting provider informing me that one of their servers had suffered serious damage. This was unfortunately the server that hosted our humble website, and consequently our site was unavailable for the majority of the day.

Thankfully though the server has now been replaced and they are in the process of populating it with the data from their nightly backups. I just had a quick look at the forums, and thankfully it all looks up to date.

I just wanted to apologise for the inconvenience, and to say that if something like this happens again (hopefully it won’t!) that I will be posting server status updates on the SotW Twitter account. That way you can all follow the status of the server and get an idea of the ETA of it’s fix.