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General Discussion / Donator status
« Last post by Parthalox on April 12, 2021, 03:04:21 am »Is there donor status or no?
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--- 10th of march ---
7:40: contacted support and waiting for an answer:
8:01: data center is literally on fire (http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=49471) looking into data recovery and setting up a new server now
8:20: hiring new hardware and trying to get everything back up and running again. no ETA on this, hopefully today
9:30: new server hired in germanynow setting it up (no ETA when it will be finished, I hope today)
11:25: started importing backup from yesterday night. there will be a rollback until 9th of march 5am
12:30: new server partially up and running. might be ready in the evening today
13:25: few problems with database imports. some of you might already reach www.emps-world.net on the new server. nothing there works yet but the page should display
16:27: database import finished. testing homepage and bringing game server back online
16:47: game server successfully running and login worked with player data from yesterday. doing more investigating before it goes live
16:57: looking good! you will be able to reconnect whenever your computer decides to update DNS (takes up to 24h)
17:08: game server back online. working on web services now
18:00: I'll continue tomorrow. wiki, forum and recovery options still need to be done
--- 11th of march ---
6:45: fixed an issue with model loading (donator items, demon weapons, etc.)
7:45: gotta go to work today, will be back in the afternon (skipped office yesterday already)
12:30: continuing work - looking into missing models
16:00: few base homepage components have been fixed (hiscores, ge, logs, mod tools, etc.)
19:00: missing assets (models, icons, etc.) have been fixed. developed a new system for easier deployment and backups of assets
--- 12th of march ---
9:00: started to bring forum back
10:00: forum looking good. trying to recover some images from news posts
12:30: front page restored including images from patch notes
12:50: all forum avatars and some news post images have been lostthese image files weren't in the backup
14:38: working on updating wiki software. looks like a lot of image data has been lost
15:33: wiki is finally back up: https://emps-world.net/wiki/Main_Page a lot of images are missing though.