Launch Maintenance (9/7/2012)

Black Mesa Archive News & Developer Updates
#1

Hello Scientists!

We are just about a week away and I am sure many of you shipped away the girlfriend to a remote island, called out from work, moved into a man cave of some sort, or even teleported yourself to XEN in order to get ready for the big day. Well, now it’s our turn.

Over the next few days, we will be initiating our release plan to ensure that our web servers can handle all the expected load during the launch weekend. Part of this plan, is moving the forums off to a separate server and load balancing the release website between two. With that being said, access to both the website and forums over the weekend might be slightly interrupted during the move. However, we plan to do this all with little to no interruption.

At some point after we are finished building the new infrastructure, the forums will be taken temporary offline to allow your DNS to refresh and grab the new information for the server. We would hate to have your very important forum posts get lost.

See you all on the other side!

-Hubi

#2

See ya on the other side, Ray.

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…I mean, Hubi.

#3

Sounds great, I’m sure the release will go pretty smoothly, and if not, hey, what’s waiting a day or two compared to 7 years, right.
It wouldn’t be the end of the world… that’s for in 3 months :wink:

I don’t really get why you’d keep them for a week. I heard the forum threads and posts (not the users though) were being wiped with the release anyway, has that changed?

#4

Safe travels, everyone!

#5

Godspeed Hubi

#6

#7

LUNCH MAINTENANCE!

I AM HUNGRY!

#8

Will both the forum and release sites be available on both domains?

#9

I don’t think that servers will do great in the day of release. Just remember Diablo 3 launch, and that was Blizzard, with all their experience and power.

If servers go down, post mirror links on twitter, facebook.

#10

Safe travels!

#11

See ya there folks :wink:

#12

It’s time!

#13

But really though, sail majestically.

Be adequate.

#14
#15

Se ya when I see ya, folks!

#16

Their fan base is MUCH MUCH MUCH bigger then ours. They needed to support millions of people trying to play at once. We don’t. We will be fine.

#17

See you on the other side bros.

#18

#19

You might be surprised :wink:

All kidding aside…just a simple Thank You from a new Half-Life player.

#20

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