NOTICE:: SITE DOWNTIME

cyberax · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:42 am

NB: Our service provider will be upgrading the server this website is on, starting on Wednesday 18 July, 8am CDT.

The changes include DNS changes, which means this website could be unavailable for a while.

I will be monitoring the upgrade and we will try to keep downtime to a minimum (if any), but as with all things computer based, things can go wrong, so please be patient

I will post any changes and progress in this thread.

Bjossi · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:09 pm

Will we benefit from the server upgrade in any way? Like speed increases?

cyberax · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:16 pm

This upgrade is a bit more complex than I originaly thought. We are moving to a whole new server, thus DNS changes.

For safety sake, I will be disabling this site about an hour before hand (7am CDT - which is 2pm GMT+2). You will get a "this site is currently unavailable" message whilst I have it switched off.

It will be down for at least a couple of hours, due to the DNS changes. This means it will be unavailable for most of the morning this comming Wednesday (afternoon/evening for us).

We appologise for the inconvience, but the site will benefit from running on newer and faster hardware

Bjossi · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:20 pm

I don't mind this myself, the upgrades do nothing but good. Hell, getting a vacation from this place does good for all of us.

cyberax · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:16 am

Please Note: This site is now available at http://www.runestorm.com

It is actually the same site, so don't get confused thinking it's two different sites!

We were saving the .com for some other future enhancements, but I've enabled it on this site in preperation for Wednesday's server upgrade.
For some technical reasons, the .com will be available a LOT faster than the .za.net so if you cannot browse to the site using www.runestorm.za.net on Wednesday, then rather use the www.runestorm.com

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:56 am

After wednesday i'm guessing the .com site will go down and we will contiuse use of the .za site?

Bjossi · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:04 pm

Wouldn't it be more common sense that we ditch the rare and less supported .za.net domain and pick up .com?

Captain Xavious · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:22 pm

I like the .za.net...

reaper900 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:42 pm

I like .za.net better too...it just sounds so unique

OCAdam · **Posted:** Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:48 pm

I like .za.net myself, since it sounds cooler than just.... dot com. But I guess you got the dot com for this event basically? Or was it because of the 2$ price it is now? I heard soemthing like that anyways.... the 2$ part that is.

cyberax · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:46 am

both the .za.net and the .com are here to stay!
I've had the .com for a while, was saving it for other events

The $2 sales always have a catch...like buying other products with them

Echo 419 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:55 pm

the za.net is wired into my brain now

reaper900 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:13 pm

I know the feeling,Runestrom.za.net has been my homepage for 1 year, 1 month, 1 week, 0 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes, 46 seconds and counting

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:23 pm

Nice count.

Bjossi · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:35 pm

.za.net is unique and looks badass, but I prefer .com because it gets more attention by server providers so we'd get better service from them.

Captain Xavious · **Posted:** Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:02 pm

Yeah, I'd have to say Bjossi said my exact words.

Kaboodles · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:48 am

za.net is also a pain in the ass to type down.

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:14 am

oh just use favorites for it. God, its quite simple.

OCAdam · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:06 am

Bjossi wrote:

.za.net is unique and looks badass, but I prefer .com because it gets more attention by server providers so we'd get better service from them.

And if we have both though..... so we get badass uniqueness and some better service still?

Edit: .za.net.com XD

Bjossi · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:40 am

Kaboodles wrote:

za.net is also a pain in the ass to type down.

Yeah, it takes whole 2 seconds to type it, twice longer than typing .com. %-6

cyberax · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:25 am

* reminder *

cyberax · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:21 pm

* reminder *

Kaboodles · **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:59 am

Bjossi wrote:

Kaboodles wrote:

za.net is also a pain in the ass to type down.

Yeah, it takes whole 2 seconds to type it, twice longer than typing .com. %-6

It's not how long it takes to type it. It's just that it's really really uncommon and weird. Easier to remember a .com or .net than a za.net. And it's not just for me. There's also the random boobs on the server who don't know how to use Google and ask for the url. Blargh.

ShadowBlade · **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:18 am

i really don't mind

it's cool to have both.. the .com just looks more pr-like.... good for when we real big..

cyberax · **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:12 am

* reminder *
This site is going down in approx. 30mins for a few hours....

cyberax · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:05 am

www.runestorm.com is back on-line.
there is a slow process for changing needed settings for www.runestorm.za.net so that will take a while.
I have posted a message there to tell people to come to www.runestorm.com

please report any problems you may find.

Mr.UglyPants · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:55 am

Okay, which site are we supposed to use, the .za or the .com?

cyberax · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:35 am

Mr.UglyPants wrote:

Okay, which site are we supposed to use, the .za or the .com?

Well you made it to the right place

The .za.net will simply tell you to go to the .com until the .za.net is online again!
So the .com

Sorry for all the confusion!

OCAdam · **Posted:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:21 pm

Looks like .za.net is up again.

cyberax · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:51 am

We had some DNS issues with the .za.net, so some people might have missed a few posts, but all seems to be ok now....

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