[UO Herald] Hardware Upgrades 01/07/11 - Multiple Shards

[UO News]

Greetings!

On Friday, 01/07/11, starting at 9:00AM EST the following shards will experience rolling downtimes as we deploy new hardware (in this order):

• Pacific
• Baja
• Sonoma
• Lake Austin
• Napa Valley
• Oceania

Downtimes will vary depending on the population of the shard and therefore we cannot provide an ETA; however, higher populations should expect potential downtimes up to 8 hours.

We apologize for this inconvenience and will work to update you during this deployment, thank you.



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[GalenKnighthawke]

I wonder if every server is getting new hardware or just some of them?

Either way....It means money is being spent on UO. Which is interesting, to say the least.

-Galen's player

 

[Babble]

Yay we get new hamsters

 

[Mapper]

Nice to see upgrades.. Kinda means UO is worth it! Good to know.

 

[Apetul]

• Pacific
• Baja
• Sonoma
• Lake Austin
• Napa Valley
• Oceania

Downtimes will vary depending on the population of the shard and therefore we cannot provide an ETA; however, higher populations should expect potential downtimes up to 8 hours.

Then Oceania should expect potential downtimes up to... 5-10 minutes

jk

 

[Mapper]

Then Oceania should expect potential downtimes up to... 5-10 minutes

jk

I was going to post something similar..

 

[Nyses]

Nice to see upgrades.. Kinda means UO is worth it! Good to know.

Hey, just remember "new hardware" does not necessarily mean the Hardware is New. My little brother got "new" clothes as a kid, every time I outgrew mine, lol.

I had to.

 

[Beer_Cayse]

good point. <chuckles and walks off>

 

[Sevin0oo0]

Nice to see upgrades.. Kinda means UO is worth it! Good to know.

weren't we sharing resources with somebody? I forget the company/game name, it came up a couple months ago

 

[R Traveler]

Maybe they replace old Pentium-4 based XEONs to new low power Atoms to save on electricity bills?

 

[Supreem]

This new hardware is an amazing improvement from the previous generation. It makes us programmers so happy!

 

[Llewen]

Good to hear.

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

This new hardware is an amazing improvement from the previous generation. It makes us programmers so happy!

Out of curiosity, is this improvement going to be visible, in a direct and immediate sense, by the end user? For example, in better pings or less choppy movement or something?

Not that I'm knocking it if not; I'm just quite curious.

And from what you're saying it somehow sounds like all shards will be getting this sooner or later? Or were those shards just on really old machines?

-Galen's player

 

[R Traveler]

This new hardware is an amazing improvement from the previous generation. It makes us programmers so happy!

You upgrade old 286 to newer pentium-MMX to get 32-bit code advantage and multimedia code set?

 

[Trebr Drab]

This new hardware is an amazing improvement from the previous generation. It makes us programmers so happy!

You upgrade old 286 to newer pentium-MMX to get 32-bit code advantage and multimedia code set?

No, this hamster is corn fed.
Well, Cheetos anyways.

But what's important is that he can handle the influx of freeloaders coming soon.

 

[WildStar]

Out of curiosity, is this improvement going to be visible, in a direct and immediate sense, by the end user? For example, in better pings or less choppy movement or something?

Not that I'm knocking it if not; I'm just quite curious.

And from what you're saying it somehow sounds like all shards will be getting this sooner or later? Or were those shards just on really old machines?

-Galen's player

I play on dail-up and noticed that buildings that used to take 10 seconds before I could move, now take 5 seconds. Other players on Baja tested this on other deco intensive buildings and noticed the same thing.

WildStar

 

[Deb]

Hope after server up in the morning it is better, I ping 22 to Napa and
it feels like 300 now, but not all the time which is odd. And it does
not matter where I am.

 

[lucitus]

This new hardware is an amazing improvement from the previous generation. It makes us programmers so happy!

Maybe only one subserver per facet? No more serverlines, please!

 

[R Traveler]

Maybe only one subserver per facet? No more serverlines, please!

No way! keep serverlines for bugs