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[Rentier]

ClaymoreReIIik, on 20 August 2015 - 11:53 AM, said:

Their hotfix died horribly and broke something....so they had to revert to a backup....which takes quite long....

seems so - some forum-members lost their faction

[ClaymoreReIIik]

sisu303, on 20 August 2015 - 11:55 AM, said:

Everyone who owns a computer should know that **** happens.

Everyone who professionally works in IT knows that you have a TESTING ENVIRONMENT so that crap does not happen on the end that is facing the customer.....

[Papio Giorgio]

Thanks for the update, for a moment there i thought you'd banned me for telling people that whine after they die to stfu

Or the few guys that whine before they die too.... I'll stop talking now

*Blames cat*

ClaymoreReIIik, on 20 August 2015 - 12:00 PM, said:

Everyone who professionally works in IT knows that you have a TESTING ENVIRONMENT so that crap does not happen on the end that is facing the customer.....

Ever hear of square chickens in a vacuum?

[sisu303]

ClaymoreReIIik, on 20 August 2015 - 12:00 PM, said:

Everyone who professionally works in IT knows that you have a TESTING ENVIRONMENT so that crap does not happen on the end that is facing the customer.....

Skit also includes spilled Coffey

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ClaymoreReIIik, on 20 August 2015 - 12:00 PM, said:

Everyone who professionally works in IT knows that you have a TESTING ENVIRONMENT so that crap does not happen on the end that is facing the customer.....

And everyone with a testing environment knows that you can't "test" the hot system with all users in it. Not that we got so far.


My guess would be that the server potato updated to windows 10 and that microsoft deleted all the pirated games on it

[Alexander Garden]

Game servers are back, all systems nominal. Apologies to all for the extended downtime!

[VXJaeger]

Alexander Garden, on 20 August 2015 - 12:12 PM, said:

Game servers are back, all systems nominal. Apologies to all for the extended downtime!

#BlameTheGarth

[w0lv3rin3]

#gotowned.

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ClaymoreReIIik, on 20 August 2015 - 12:00 PM, said:

Everyone who professionally works in IT knows that you have a TESTING ENVIRONMENT so that crap does not happen on the end that is facing the customer.....

They also know that no matter how much you test, something can still go wrong. That's why you have a plan for rollback or mitigation of potential problems, and have someone setting appropriate expectations to your customers by communicating with them and making sure they feel you understand their concerns. Oh wait... that's exactly what they did.

[Invidious Squid]

ClaymoreReIIik, on 20 August 2015 - 12:00 PM, said:

Everyone who professionally works in IT knows that you have a TESTING ENVIRONMENT so that crap does not happen on the end that is facing the customer.....

Absolutely. And nothing ever breaks between staging and production. Oh, no, not ever. In the vast history of mankind, no such tales have ever been told.

Can confirm; work in IT.

[Triordinant]

Alexander Garden, on 20 August 2015 - 12:12 PM, said:

Game servers are back, all systems nominal. Apologies to all for the extended downtime!

The matches are BS again. They were getting better over the past 2 days. Was the PSR system removed?

[VXJaeger]

ClaymoreReIIik, on 20 August 2015 - 12:00 PM, said:

Everyone who professionally works in IT knows that you have a TESTING ENVIRONMENT so that crap does not happen on the end that is facing the customer.....

Everyone who has professionally worked in IT for long time knows, that there is absolutely no matter how much you test, adjust and make system bombproof, it can somehow always go horribly wrong. It's like combination of wind changes direction is Island and simultaniously crow sings in Siberia equals that unicorns attack servers and you are totally ******

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Nam Neckcrit, on 20 August 2015 - 10:24 AM, said:

wait...who the hell plays cw?!

CWI does, just played a few matches. It can be fun at times, depending on the opposition.

[Bluttrunken]

VXJaeger, on 20 August 2015 - 11:25 PM, said:

Everyone who has professionally worked in IT for long time knows, that there is absolutely no matter how much you test, adjust and make system bombproof, it can somehow always go horribly wrong. It's like combination of wind changes direction is Island and simultaniously crow sings in Siberia equals that unicorns attack servers and you are totally ******

Murphy's Law as well.

[ClaymoreReIIik]

VXJaeger, on 20 August 2015 - 11:25 PM, said:

Everyone who has professionally worked in IT for long time knows, that there is absolutely no matter how much you test, adjust and make system bombproof, it can somehow always go horribly wrong. It's like combination of wind changes direction is Island and simultaniously crow sings in Siberia equals that unicorns attack servers and you are totally ******

No doubt about that. We could go into redundancy constructs and patching one side then switching and still having a running old system to switch over in case of boom and all that kinda crap, but let's not.

Let's just say PGI has an unnatural history (IMHO) of unforeseen differences between staging and production. Maybe tells you something about their staging system....or maybe I am just too negative. Anyway....happy it works again.

[MovinTarget]

Claymore, I would put it "everyone in IT knows that you try it our out on a test server first, THEN MAKE THE DOWNTIME WINDOW EXTRA LARGE SO THAT YOU LOOK LIKE A CHAMP WHEN YOU SUCCEED IN A FRACTION OF THE TIME AND NOT LIKE A CHUMP IF CRAP HAPPENS."

[ClaymoreReIIik]

MovinTarget, on 21 August 2015 - 04:12 AM, said:

Claymore, I would put it "everyone in IT knows that you try it our out on a test server first, THEN MAKE THE DOWNTIME WINDOW EXTRA LARGE SO THAT YOU LOOK LIKE A CHAMP WHEN YOU SUCCEED IN A FRACTION OF THE TIME AND NOT LIKE A CHUMP IF CRAP HAPPENS."

Then you would have to start it with "every professional in IT..." ;-) Thats pretty advanced project management stuff your talking about...

Really....who are we to talk. I am pretty sure they have reasons for doing things the way they do them and just because others do it differently to avoid embarrassing service outages does not mean they could employ similar techniques in their business case...

Edited by ClaymoreReIIik, 21 August 2015 - 05:10 AM.

[MovinTarget]

I work on systems where I have little control over the production environments (SQL2000 through SQL2014)... I factor a backup and a restore into the downtime even when it's a 10 seconds SQL script...

[Tom Sawyer]

Thanks for getting CW fixed.

I know its minor but can someone look into why the badges besides the names in the lobby are blinking.