Flav wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 12:03pm:


Well, yes my understanding of specific equipment is lacking, by T1 I just meant something directly on web of the ilk that you have mentioned, but the essence of the idea is correct.  Does Turdbine do anything hardware for any of their games?  I'm guessing it's all farmed out to subcontractors.  But in my defense, I do know of Rasteau which you mentioned in a post a while back, it's been a long time since I have had one, they've gotten a bit out of my price range, plus being in California, the selection of French and Italian wines is rather limited...
  I've had to do the Languedoc dance from the Rhone valley in search of the daily drinkable...  Last really good Rhone I had was a Santa Duc Gigondas a few years back, that was bottled as a "meritage" because the yield was well over the bottling allotment for Gigondas that year, .... good times!  T

eighnuss wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 12:11pm:


Well there's that IT company in New Orleans that managed to keep their servers up all the while the city was underwater from Katrina, they even made a blog about it.

Now, once again for the idiots that don't get it, and in simple terms :

Pando = bittorrent

Pando is not related to the game except that it's used by some to download the game.
Pando can be removed safely ( and it's best to do it ) once the game is installed.
Pando has absolutely no impact on the game

You cna play without Pando being installed ( like me, and I never installed it to be able to play, I recovered the installation files long ago  )

Flav wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 1:09pm:


How dare you try to infuse truth when so many are continuing to spout the Pando conspiracy all over the forums!   

Getting rid of Pando was one of the first things I did when I first installed DDO forever ago.

Starkjade wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 1:25pm:



No.
Yes the download server is separate... The fucking download server is not even in Turbines network.
Dig out some of my older posts here where I points to DDO talking to third party servers .
One of them is the download server.

Ok I'm an addict on withdrawal and I know that's part of the problem, yet I have to be mean and say: Why do this fat ass Jerry and the dyke not give out any information whether this will take 1 hour or 1 day?

'no ETA yet' - Those clowns usually give an ETA exactly 10 minutes after it's back online again. HELLO - it's too f***g late then for an ETA! I'm sitting here pushing the Login-button over and over and over again. What these community-guys are getting payed for? 

DDOcrackhead wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 1:52pm:


Because they are patsies who don't know shit except making/bringing coffee to the big guys and locking down/deleting threads when the criticism gets too much for Hendrik/Thrudh to contain on their own.

I guarantee they have a pretty good idea when they'll be back up. The problem is it's probably not going to be today and if they publicized that, not only would the DDO Forums be even more deeply in the land of Butt Hurtia, places like TenTonHammer and Massively would go stark raving banana noses and totally reem Turbine back into the King's Quest age.

Edited:

currently in game on the flagship ddo server of sarlona

eighnuss wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 2:15pm:


I am also on.

DDOcrackhead wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 1:52pm:


I can answer for him.
First I'm critical to Turbine when it's needed ( like now, but that's a manglement decision and the poor guys at the bottom are just there to take the flak ).

They can't give an ETA because they have no idea of the ETA.

See my previous post, when I was called at 10 AM on friday I  had no clue of the size of the failure.
The Fiber channel card was replaced at 4PM.
Then I spent from 4PM to 10 PM to try to get back the server working.
I raised the fucking Third Line ( going through the second line like lightning after explaining the problem at 10 PM. I left the site, a colleague joined me at midnight, at 3 AM on Saturday.
I went back on the site at 5PM on the Saturday, the system was not online yet, there was a few databases to restore.
That was already one day and a half of downtime and we fucking had no clue of the ETA when the system would be back online as we had 4 databases to recover from a 2 year old backup...
( and even if we could recover we didn't know if the data in the databases wasn't too obsolete )
After restoring all the databases it was 3AM Sunday, the system came online but with two years old data. ( it as a provisioning system for telco equipments, needless to say that we HAD TO recover the missing data one way or another before the customer could provision data again, it took us a month )

So all in all in my case, the downtime started at 10 AM on a Friday and lasted until 5AM on a Sunday... And we had no clue about the ETA or partial system recovery until 1 AM on Sunday.

This outage made history in Local Support, at the Global Support Level and at the Third Line ( Design ) level as one of the best (disaster) recovery ever made on that system, but I can tell you that when I was working on it it didn't feel like one of the best recovery, it was a pure and unbriddled nightmare.