For the last year, I've been working on an unannounced strategy MMO based on an IP I can't talk about.
But, that project ended today. Maybe I'll have time to finish more blog posts now ;-)
edited for... clarity.
Wednesday, October 14. 2009
the joys of managing your own web server
The data center my web server resides in moved recently; I - and everyone I share my rack with - had to move our equipment some time between the beginning and end of this month. So that happened today, and I'm sorry for the downtime (to anyone that noticed) but it's stuff like this that, honestly, keeps me wanting to run my own server.
I remember once at NCsoft something similar happened; I don't remember (and may not have ever known) the "why" but data centers changed; I just noticed because... wow, all those sysadmins and network admins and other operational staff sure seemed tired and cranky. But as I recall, it didn't actually translate to significant game down time - certainly not the 8 or so hours this site had today (to be clear, everything in the rack was being moved at once - I didn't do such a terrible job that it took me 8 hours to move one 2U system across town).
That's something I should keep in mind, in my opinion. Can the systems I develop be easily migrated if they have to be? Not just for the (generally rare) circumstance of the entire data center moving, or contracts changing, but even the day-to-day of machine failure.
At nearly midnight, having been home for about 15 minutes, I'm certainly not of the right mindset to make a list of proper steps or describe an architecture or any such thing; but I can at least try to remember this feeling later, because I don't really wish it on anyone. :-)
I remember once at NCsoft something similar happened; I don't remember (and may not have ever known) the "why" but data centers changed; I just noticed because... wow, all those sysadmins and network admins and other operational staff sure seemed tired and cranky. But as I recall, it didn't actually translate to significant game down time - certainly not the 8 or so hours this site had today (to be clear, everything in the rack was being moved at once - I didn't do such a terrible job that it took me 8 hours to move one 2U system across town).
That's something I should keep in mind, in my opinion. Can the systems I develop be easily migrated if they have to be? Not just for the (generally rare) circumstance of the entire data center moving, or contracts changing, but even the day-to-day of machine failure.
At nearly midnight, having been home for about 15 minutes, I'm certainly not of the right mindset to make a list of proper steps or describe an architecture or any such thing; but I can at least try to remember this feeling later, because I don't really wish it on anyone. :-)
Friday, October 2. 2009
After the conference
A web developer friend of mine is thinking about conference "back channels." Folks who attended AGDC this year (where the Twitter traffic was heavy and constant, and #agdc09 was everywhere) might want to participate in a brief survey he's conducting on, I guess, making it easier to find and participate in.
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