In the past few weeks, I have been (secretly) working on upgrading
the server infrastructure of PokéHeroes for the purpose of higher
performance/speed as well as improved server security.
PokéHeroes will now operate on three super-fast servers(faster CPU, 128GB RAM, 1GBit/s
internet speed, blah blah) - which should result in much
higher stability & also a faster page generation time (especially
during high activity spikes).
Most code is already transfered to our new servers - but the main
database is still on our old main server.
The database will be transfered on Wednesday, November 9th at
10AM Server Time. The transfer will approximatelly take 90
minutes and PokéHeroes will not be accessible during
this time. You can, however, access
the Palpad if you leave a tab open before the maintenance
starts. A reminder of this downtime will be sent out as a
global notification 30 minutes in advance.
After the transfer: Please note that, as I said, the new
servers use different hardware than we currently use. That means
that the server configurations may not be fully optimal yet
and it may happen that you encounter some errors (Bad
Gateway, Server down etc.) in the first few days after the server
move. Please be patient in these cases and simply make a short post
in this topic with details & the time of the error :)
I did my best to set up everything correctly in advance, but it's
impossible to test how the servers really behave when there
are ~500 users online at the same time. It's always a bit of a
trial & error.
Thank you for your understanding - and hopefully you will enjoy
these improvements! ^_^