No maintenance this Tuesday
by David Nelson 
Dec 22nd 2006 at 8:04AM
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There will be no regular Tuesday maintenance this week. That would be Tuesday, December 26th for you calendar impaired folks. Is this a late Christmas present from Blizzard? Well...sort of. According to Drysc, the retrofits they have been doing to server hardware over the past year have made it possible to go longer than one week in between maintenance periods. Good news! For those of you behind a firewall at work, here is Drysc's post in it's entirety:
"Since the game's release, one of our most important service goals has been to reduce the amount of time realms are down for weekly realm maintenance. The various hardware upgrades and retrofits we've done over the past year have put us in a position to begin testing the ability to go longer than a week between maintenance periods.
In the upcoming weeks, we will be testing the effect of a live maintenance, where regular maintenance tasks are run during off-peak with realms live. On Tuesday, December 26 there will be no scheduled downtime for weekly maintenance. We will perform all necessary maintenance tasks while the realms are live. We are anticipating the possibility that we may need to perform rolling restarts off-peak if we find that a realm restart is necessary; however the downtime for each realm would be less than 10 minutes if it was required."
It would be really nice if this holds and we can make the Tuesday downtime a thing of the past.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Shat Dec 22nd 2006 8:11AM
Ooh. This might not be such a good idea. I mean, it makes sense not to have maintainance the day after Christmas, because all the little newbies who got the game as a present will want to play, but this will stretch the servers to their maximum limit. We could see a couple crashes.
michel Dec 22nd 2006 8:32AM
yeah, it seems to be dangerous to do that just after christmas.
I hope everything will be fine
guest Dec 22nd 2006 8:41AM
Kids don't get WoW for Xmas. Honestly, that'd be like giving your child an addictive drug. :D
djr Dec 22nd 2006 9:49AM
Actually it's a lot more like giving them a computer game.
Wartoad Dec 22nd 2006 9:50AM
They should do a pre-emptive Christmas maintenance Saturday(early early) just to clean up the servers before the Christmas Zerg of new players and Holiday players.
So sorry Dec 22nd 2006 9:56AM
Let me translate this for you:
"None of us plan on being in the office the day after Christmas."
Kaziel Dec 22nd 2006 10:32AM
Read Drysc's post folks. He's not saying that they won't do maintenance right after christmas. Instead they will be doing it during off-peak hours (I would guess 2-8am), running in the background, with the possibility of rolling restarts. The intent is to stop the playerbase from having to not play for almost a day, once a week. If they can pull it off, more power to them!
Cheesehound Dec 22nd 2006 11:56AM
Well this is great news, again Blizzard goes out of its way to provide a good gaming experience for its clients. I remember the contempt SOE showed to European players of EQ2 by downing the servers each day from three to four in the afternoon. And look where it got them.