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Shard was up, but lost all internet so..... yeah...

I saved the shard and took it down to wait out the internet loss.
ISP reports that it is a city-wide service loss, so no ETA on a return.

L

Server is up!

Let me know if anything looks odd.

L

Server back up!

Let me know if anything looks odd.
The server was off when I got home. No clues as to what happened in the logs.
I'll monitor it closely over the next few days and see what happens.
I went ahead and did some quick software updating while it was down.

L

Real life kinda jumped up in my way and delayed me....
I will try to attempt this afternoon at some point of low online population

Greetings Sylanites,

I haven't heard much from anyone lately in terms of problems or errors, and it warms my heart to see that no downtime has been reported since March!
However it is once again that time of the year that I do my quarterly maintenance to make sure that everything continues to run in tip-top-shape.

I am hoping to begin this process tomorrow morning (depending on low online user-count) and I do not forsee this process taking more than 2-3 hours.

I will post in this thread when I start, Progress, and when I end.

Until then, Stay safe
Llewellyn

Greetings Sylvanites,

I just want to take a quick moment and advise that I am currently in the middle of a freezing rain storm.
My power just flickered for the 3rd time. Even though the UPS are holding steady; expect outages of the server.....
As I will have no power and will be slowly freezing.

Thanks for your attention.
Llewellyn

Getting some pretty severe lag at the moment. Going to do a router re-boot and see if that fixes things.

Ok,

Well after nearly an hour without internet, we are back online.
More work to be done on this tomorrow, but I need to get ready for work in the morning.
Things will remain bumpy for a little bit.
This kids, is why Monopoly's are bad.....

Malik,
I checked and you are just fine.


Llewelyn

Just a quick note....

I know that there has been some severe connection issues this weekend. I have been on the phone with ISP again, but they are as usual unhelpful.
It is almost as if these problems are caused by me hosting, or are aggravated by the shard.


I can only offer my sincerest apologies, and I am trying to work on it.

Llewellyn

Server has been migrated successfully.

No problems so far, but if anyone encounters one be sure to slay it.
And then report on the forums.

Llewellyn

I would also like to take a moment to thank my best buddy Knossos for his assistance during all of my ISP woes.

Everyone should take a moment to let him know how much they appreciated him being able to step in and keep the lights on while I was unable to.
Literally saved the shard...

L

Atlas is back in business!

After MUCH consternation with my Internet Service Provider (ISP) I think that the issues I was having over the past few months with the random disconnects and internet-drops has been fixed.
It took a total of:
> Escalation to Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 customer support (whatever that means aside from talking with different people when I call)
> 7 ISP Technician visits who ranged from completely clueless to half-way intelligent.
Telecom technician who came out and climbed the power pole next to my house and opened up the neighborhood distribution-header
> Plant technician who came out and traced the lines back to the city distribution-header.
> All-in-all I replaced (had replaced) all the Coaxial cable from my router to the house-box, Replaced all the barrels and the wall-socket, Replaced my router and modem, Replaced a barrel at the power-pole, replaced two signal filters at the pole and at the neighborhood distribution-header. Also the Plant Technicians replaced stuff but I never heard what it was.
> ~3 months, and a partridge in a pear tree. (getting in the season early)

tl;dr
Server Migration back to my house Tomorrow Night (Wednesday ~6:30 CST).
So expect the server to be down for at the most 4 hours.
I had to spend $128.43 of your donation money. Thanks again guys for the support!

Llewellyn

Server should be up.

Please let me know if you guys notice any issues with the server.
To include Lag, disconnects, cant connect

Llewellyn

Greeting Fellow Sylvanites.

I am going to take some time today to perform my routine server maintenance.
Additionally, there is a service tech from my ISP coming out today around the same time to try and figure out what is going on with my internet.
Finally, During this downtime I am transferring hosting of SH to a friend's server for the duration of Tropical Storm Karen (or whatever strength it is when it finally makes landfall)

Stay safe, try not to get bored, and I will have everything back up and running as soon as possible.

Llewellyn

Yes.

There have been a LOT of dropped connections to SH. There is some issue in the COAX line coming in.
I have technicians coming out tomorrow to try and trace the lines, see where the problems are.

Llewellyn