Major hardware upgrade coming + New realmlist!

[Croggeadmin]

You probably know that CroggesServer is using since years modern hardware to ensure a stable/lag free gaming environment which is since a few months also in use by Shadowburn. We have currently barely any load on the roots, but the current hardware has been years under heavy usage and the OS needs to be updated soon. So we thought it wouldn't hurt to get something "fresh", especially with the incoming update which will hopefully increase the size of the community again so the hardware won't be bored anymore.

The technical specifications are the following:

Intel® Xeon Processor E3-1245 (8x 3,7 GHz)
16GB ECC High Performance RAM
2x 3TB Enterprise Server HDDs
3ware Hardware Raid Controller (Set to Raid 1 ofc)
Intel Gbit Ethernet card

Here a small benchmark example to show how fast the machine is, the results are especially for the DB server interesting:

Timing cached reads: 27672 MB in 2.00 seconds = 13852.30 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 576 MB in 3.00 seconds = 191.94 MB/sec

The advantages of the hardware upgrade are the following:

• Lower costs to ensure also with less donations a long server lifetime
• A big performance increase so the server is able to hold more players at once
• Easier maintenance
• Higher security due to the OS update and related file / user permission changes
• Update can be installed in less time because the HW is able to compile the software faster

Please expect a small downtime of 2-6 hours tomorrow because we can't transfer the whole database while the server is running. Use the IP of the new server if you have any connection problems afterwards (IP will be announced later).

[Croggeadmin]

The server has been successfully ported to the new hardware, other services (e.g account manager) will be online later.

The old realmlist will work till tomorrow evening, the new realmlist is the following:

set realmlist logon.croggesserver.com

(Use "set realmlist 176.9.79.169" instead if you have problems with the realmlist above)

[Croggeadmin]

Also the extended services are online now, the following URLs are important for you:

http://account.croggesserver.com/ - Account manager
http://mantis.croggesserver.com/ - Mantis (Bug tracker)
teamspeak.croggesserver.com - New Teamspeak 2+3 URL