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  • [COMPLETED] Scheduled Maintenance - April 24th

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    kairisoadori wrote: »
    You say its not a server merge but what els would take them 12 hours+ because long maintenance never end when they should if it isnt a server merge what could it be any ideas

    Data recovery on a failed storage array takes about that long. Given the current degraded performance, that'd be my first guess. RAID arrays start to get very complicated and time-consuming when they get large, and a 10 year old MMORPG is going to have an absolutely gigantic file size behind its working databases. Migrating all that data from a dying server to a new one takes a long time to do, and it is far simpler to make this migration while the database is not in use- such as the result of shutting the game down for an extended maintenance.

    The server merge is not going to happen. It would require major functional changes to the game in order to deal with the name conflicts that would result, and Nexon would have to implement a cash shop item that allows players to change their names to deal with these conflicts without being an absolutely staggering customer service burden.

    Besides, I'm pretty sure it was revealed years ago, circa 2014 or so, that the entire game is actually running on 1 physical machine to begin with. Hardware performance has improved relative to the game's needs to such an extent that where it used to be 1 server node per channel, now that 1 physical box can host multiple containers to maintain the same functional structure at a greatly reduced hosting cost to Nexon.
    Leinei wrote: »
    OAO TWELVE HOURS?! I haven't seen a maintenance that long since the origins of Iria! Please keep Ferghus and any kittens out of the server room!

    You've missed a lot since then. As I recall in the same circa 2014, when the golden age gave way to the dark times of black robing exploits, the game was down for more than 24 hours at one point due to the need of an immediate fix for the hacks that were taking place. And somehow we're still ahead of Mabinogi EU, which was completely destroyed by the same exploits. I'm glad that mess is over.
    Yoriden