Power Outages [Today: Update]

Maybe they've never shown a picture because it's all still running on those tapes and reels like in the bad guys lair from the old Bond flicks??

Maybe they've even got a pool with sharks in for devs who get the seal drop rate code wrong?

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Originally Posted by Xeth

Wow I'm intoxicated and I still understood what they said more than you did... lmao

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I'm surprised you spelled Intoxicated while intoxicated lol

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Originally Posted by Atomic646

I'm surprised you spelled Intoxicated while intoxicated lol

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spell check i bet LOL

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Originally Posted by Atomic646

I'm surprised you spelled Intoxicated while intoxicated lol

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Believe me, yesterday, I re-read it like 20 times before submitting, thinking it was spelled wrong the entire time lolol.

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Originally Posted by Xeth

Believe me, yesterday, I re-read it like 20 times before submitting, thinking it was spelled wrong the entire time lolol.

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hmmm is it weird typing while seeing everything 5+ times?

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Now the server move that they just did, was it actually moving them to a new location or just replacing some of the older ones & it was all done in house?

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They were just moving the POL database to a new server...just one database moved, in-house to new hardware. Didn't do anything with the 25 game worlds in production, or lobby servers, etc.

Raist

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Originally Posted by NightDagger

hmmm is it weird typing while seeing everything 5+ times?

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Well, I didn't mean "that" type of intoxication, I meant another "herbal" way, as my body cannot actually handle the beverage, goes right through me with no intoxication affect.

So, I didn't see anything 5 times, if anything, the TV was distracting me beyond belief and I couldn't type one word without getting distracted lol.

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Originally Posted by RAIST

They were just moving the POL database to a new server...just one database moved, in-house to new hardware. Didn't do anything with the 25 game worlds in production, or lobby servers, etc.

Raist

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aww now this makes more sense lol

It kinda nice to have a handful of people on here that are actually few knowledgeable about computers/electronics & understand the limitations that they have.

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Originally Posted by Xeth

Well, I didn't mean "that" type of intoxication, I meant another "herbal" way, as my body cannot actually handle the beverage, goes right through me with no intoxication affect.

So, I didn't see anything 5 times, if anything, the TV was distracting me beyond belief and I couldn't type one word without getting distracted lol.

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Yeah i quit drinking as soon as I had my first child. I use to pretty much live in a bar and would just pay my bill at the end of every week. normally cost me about 4-5 hundred a week. Then i just quit no problem. The herbal though always put me to sleep lol.

Well if they're not billing us for April, and they got the servers up after only a week after all, we're getting three free weeks. Even if it takes them a month, we're still breaking even on the deal. If it takes them longer than a month, they may skip the May billing cycle as well.

I freely admit that I'm antsy to play right now, but I have other things I can focus on as well.

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Originally Posted by NightDagger

Now picture something about 200 times the size of that piece of ram

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Originally Posted by NightDagger

Now if you touch the end of the ram at all you could pooch the ram, if you miscarry it, it will also fry.

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Originally Posted by RAIST

Also, bear in mind this pic doesn't show any of the beastly UPS solutions. If they don't use the humongous car battery sized units that WILL essentially cover a wall, the rack mounted ones can easly take up 3U's in a rack for each one, and you may need more than one per rack. You also have to provide 2 220v lines with a locking 3-prong plug to provide them power, which is a non-standard outlet.

In otherwords...setting up a large-scale datacenter takes a lot of planning, and not something you just pick up and move. I worked on a 5 server move across town 2 years ago for a small software firm (only 11 employees btw, some who worked remotely and didn't have a local office) and it took us a weekend to make the move.

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Just wow, stop watching movie >.>

There not much different from Home PC and server, outside the quality of the parts.... The ram (Physical Size) is the same... The hdd (Phisical size) is the same.

Ark 4U-500-CA Black 4U Rackmount Case

Spec:
ARK 4U-500-CA Black 4U Rackmount Case 3 External 5.25 inch Drive Bays ARK 4U-500-CA Black 4U Rackmount Case 3 External 5.25 inch Drive Bays Dimension DxWxH- 500mm x 483mm x 177mm Drive Bays-3xexternal 5.25 bay - 1xexternal 3.5 bay - 9xinternal 3.5 bay Motherboard- Micro ATX and ATX Power Supply- PS2 option.

Is just a compact storage.... You can put normal (home computer parts in it) Or commercial technology like SCSI HDD, and the only difference on SCSI and IDE are performance, which IDE lately get very close to SCSI on they performance and stability. (Raptor HDD to give and example 15,000 rpm 7yr warranty)

Of course Raptor is no match at all again all SCSI product since they more tolerant to HEAT/COLD/less error, data SEEK way faster and so on... I don't really need go all thru detail. For power they not require anything special like a 3-prong outlet ><

here a list of price/spec if you interest more...

Rack Mount PC - 4U

I saw your picture, and is nothing amazing compare bigger server room i saw in my life... I agree it can be complex to relocate them sometime due to many thing that i just don't wan go thru. But please don't make it sound like it would need a power generator that would take 10,000$ Gaz / day.... These PC take max 280~400 watt each, of course it add up fast since they have many, but not at the point you say.

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Maybe they've never shown a picture because it's all still running on those tapes and reels like in the bad guys lair from the old Bond flicks??

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I was starting to think the same..