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Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« on: November 03, 2014, 12:08:47 pm »
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Who does maintenance at noon on a Monday?
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2014, 12:28:48 pm »
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2014, 01:14:37 pm »
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2014, 01:46:03 pm »
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Who does maintenance at noon on a Monday?
I doubt it's noon where they are. I'm guessing it's the start of their workday and they're not willing to pay somebody to restart the servers during off-hours.
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2014, 01:52:39 pm »
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Who does maintenance at noon on a Monday?

Blizzard has been doing WOW maintenance on Tuesday morning from 3 AM to 11 AM Pacific -- so, until 2 PM Eastern -- since 2004.

Not much difference between that and Monday.
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2014, 01:54:08 pm »
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Who does maintenance at noon on a Monday?
I doubt it's noon where they are. I'm guessing it's the start of their workday and they're not willing to pay somebody to restart the servers during off-hours.
Restarting servers isn't that hard a thing to automate.  I've done it, and I'll be the first to admit I'm far from an expert sysadmin.
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2014, 01:57:43 pm »
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Who does maintenance at noon on a Monday?
I doubt it's noon where they are. I'm guessing it's the start of their workday and they're not willing to pay somebody to restart the servers during off-hours.
Restarting servers isn't that hard a thing to automate.  I've done it, and I'll be the first to admit I'm far from an expert sysadmin.
But what if it goes wrong? They may not have anyone on call.
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2014, 02:01:40 pm »
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Who does maintenance at noon on a Monday?
I doubt it's noon where they are. I'm guessing it's the start of their workday and they're not willing to pay somebody to restart the servers during off-hours.
Restarting servers isn't that hard a thing to automate.  I've done it, and I'll be the first to admit I'm far from an expert sysadmin.

Noon on a Monday seems pretty reasonable. It's not ideal, but it's not terrible. I mean prime work time and prime game time are very different times of day. Right...?
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2014, 02:46:55 pm »
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I doubt it's noon where they are. I'm guessing it's the start of their workday and they're not willing to pay somebody to restart the servers during off-hours.

The official Making Funs forum says the maintenance is 9am pacific, so I guess they're in Western US, in which case it's a sensible time.
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2014, 02:48:46 pm »
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Just be glad they are doing maintenance at all.  The site was freakin' unusable in the months before they started doing this.
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2014, 02:54:51 pm »
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The site was freakin' unusable in the months before they started doing this.

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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2014, 03:08:18 pm »
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But what if it goes wrong? They may not have anyone on call.
Then you have an outage.  That's how I did.  Then again I was running a lab where everyone worked roughly the same hours I did.  For MF, I guess it depends on how reliable their startup process is... assess chance of outage against cost, etc.  But considering they have players in various time zones, 9 AM Pacific is fine anyway.  Midnight in any US time zone would likely affect European players, so unless they have a pool of servers that can do staggered restarts there isn't really an optimal solution. 
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Re: Maintenance? MAINTENANCE!?!??!?
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2014, 03:28:39 am »
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Isn't maintenance something you do to something that is working to prevent problems in the future?
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