Server crash?

I'm at work and refreshing this thread is the only thing keeping my sanity as I compile three sets of notes to try and edit one document. So hamsters and raging paranoia, yay!

Share?

I am curious what happened. I guess we'll never know for sure. All this hacker talk is unsettling tho.

Well part of me is glad my copy of Dishonored arrived today. Get it together though please Bioware and a "free" compensation sub day for all current subbed account holders wouldn't go a miss to say sorry for the current server situation *hint hint*.

I was on one of these yesterday (tech bridge) for like 9hrs LOL.

Folks - sometimes things like this just happens....even IF properly tested in "the labs." Sometimes adding load generates problems not seen in labs due to a wide-array of issues. Yes, it indeed DOES suck that: you can't ding 50, do that planned Op, etc....but stuff happens. I'd be willing to bet my entire pension that they're sitting on conference calls between several different internal parties troubleshooting and discussing. There generally isn't just one team that's in charge of things. Usually you have a set up like: application admin team, db admin team, core admin team (hardware/os), etc. All parties have to triage the issue together. A lot of times, the company teams have to reach out to external vendors (Oracle/Sun, Cisco, whatever). Sometimes it's just complicated and not an easy fix.

I remember when a company I worked for lost the ability to process cellular data for ALL OF WALL STREET. That was a 39hr conference call before they got things fixed. Sometimes, outages simply suck for the company and customers alike.

Now I know what's up!

There is a minor misconfiguration with a router in the Irish datacenter for the EU servers, that could easily be fixed. However every single Irish admin is currently in their favourite pub, holding a a guiness in one hand and sings the Irish national anthem with passion, because the football match Ireland vs. Germany is about to commence. And with the noise in those pubs there is no way of hearing a cell phone, even if you weren't already drunk.

So they are sending an admin from Austin to Dublin to fix the problem.

You mean him.....and by him I mean the intern from India haha

I have no sympathy

force choke them option

I would guess if you're looking at multiple servers in multiple areas being down, the cause is not on the Bioware end. More likely a DoS attack, or some kind of network failure in the DNS realm.

for all you paranoid story lovers out there, here's my theory.

The Doctor (from Doctor Who) has accidentally travelled to the star wars galaxy and, mistaking the astromech responsible for storing the database for a daalek, destroyed it with his sonic screwdriver.

your lack of faith is disturbing....