NO more weekly downtimes

Brandonheat · Post by **Brandonheat** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:39 pm

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 5994&sid=1

Since the games release, one of our most important service goals has been to reduce the amount of time realms are down for weekly realm maintenance. The various hardware upgrades and retrofits weve done over the past year have put us in a position to begin testing the ability to go longer than a week between maintenance periods.

In the upcoming weeks, we will be testing the effect of a live maintenance, where regular maintenance tasks are run during off-peak with realms live. On Tuesday, December 26 there will be no scheduled downtime for weekly maintenance. We will perform all necessary maintenance tasks while the realms are live. We are anticipating the possibility that we may need to perform rolling restarts off-peak if we find that a realm restart is necessary; however the downtime for each realm would be less than 10 minutes if it was required.

nice

Zepol · Post by **Zepol** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:44 pm

ill believe it when i see it

Padishar · Post by **Padishar** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:49 pm

Zepol wrote:ill believe it when i see it

Same...

Though if they pull it off... its about $#%^& time

lili · Post by **lili** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:15 pm

Well they did pull it off yesterday without any major problems except for the honor being posted a little late. I don't even think they did a rolling restart. Babydolly was just sitting in IF afk the whole time and she was never kicked.

lili · Post by **lili** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:16 pm

I can't however imagine that they can pull this off if there was a big patch.

Padishar · Post by **Padishar** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:27 am

lili wrote:Babydolly was just sitting in IF afk the whole time and she was never kicked.

When then something HAD to have went wrong, as the first thing the patch (and all patches) should have done is kick Babydolly ^_^

QuantumDelta · Post by **QuantumDelta** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:22 am

Hmm extended uptimes will probably start leading to data degradation (or at least it did in older mmos...) either which way, if they can do it and keep to it I'll be a happy bunny.

lili · Post by **lili** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:38 am

Padishar wrote:
lili wrote:Babydolly was just sitting in IF afk the whole time and she was never kicked.
When then something HAD to have went wrong, as the first thing the patch (and all patches) should have done is kick Babydolly ^_^

awww *sniff sniff* Will hates me, my life as I know it is over.

JonisRahl · Post by **JonisRahl** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:12 pm

Now, Now it will be alright it is just one of the voices in his head that dislikes everyone.....we all try to ignore that one

lili · Post by **lili** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:11 pm

Can't the fun one come out and play instead?

lili · Post by **lili** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:06 pm

well this lasted a week

but i'm back on pathology tomorrow anyways so no biggie for me

Zepol · Post by **Zepol** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:44 am

btw just a fyi i have a note in my WOW logon screen that says that the realms will be down from 5am-11am tommorrow Jan2nd so yea another fairy tailed story by blizzard

lili · Post by **lili** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:34 am

lol yeah alan that's why I made that prior post...i was going to post the screen shot of that but figure why bother we all expect it from blizzard now.