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SimGames.net Network News
Earlier today at 7:30PM CDT, SimGames.net suffered a partial outage on our web server for a duration of approximately 4 hours. Sites utilizing static HTML pages were unaffected by this outage. Sites utilizing PHP file extensions, however, were affected by this outage.The outage knocked out our PHP processing ability and subsequent attempts to restart the PHP process were unsuccessful. The issue has since been resolved with the help of our parent company, Steadfast Networks.
We're looking into the matter in more depth to advert such an outage again. We hope this outage did not affect your members and we appreciate your patience while we attempted to resolve this matter.
If there are any questions, please feel free to open a support ticket or discuss this at our forums.
Over the previous two mornings we had scheduled network maintenance. The maintenance from Friday morning went through without a hitch and we have improved network capacity and reliability as well as general organization. The maintenance should not have caused any outages, as everything went through smoothly. We were unable to complete the Saturday morning maintenance though, as several of the involved parties were unable to participate due to flight delays (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89583845). This maintenance will be rescheduled this coming week and at least one week notice will be given of the new date. As the Saturday morning maintenance was not completed, no customers were affected.
On the morning of Friday April 11th, we will have a scheduled network maintenance from midnight to 4AM CDT. This maintenance will involve bringing down several carriers to update DDoS mitigation, re-adjust some network configurations, and to perform standard upgrades. This maintenance should not involve any downtime and should be relatively transparent as links being worked on will be taken down gracefully and only a single carrier at a time should be down.
There will then be a second maintenance on Saturday April 12th, from 2AM to 3AM CDT, which was scheduled over the weekend as it will definitely involve downtime for most of our customers. There will be upgrades made to a majority of our core routing equipment at this time. Total downtime should not exceed 30 minutes.
The official end of life for PHP 4 has been set for August 8th, 2008 by the PHP Group. As a result, this version will no longer receive bug fixes or security fixes after this date. At that this time, we will also discontinue support for PHP 4 completely on our hosting systems. As the date approaches, we will schedule a specific time to cut over all customers to PHP 5 and eliminate PHP 4 use entirely from our servers. If you are still using PHP scripts that require PHP 4, you should pursue upgrades to these scripts through their publishers or make the necessary modifications within the next several months.
If you have any questions or concerns about this change, please let us know by opening a support ticket or discussing the matter on our forums.
There will be network maintenance performed on Monday, February 11 at 9PM - 11PM Central. This is a scheduled maintenance period for a couple of our carriers, thus to consolidate the scheduled maintenance periods we will also be performing upgrades of our DDoS mitigation hardware at this time, as well us some other minor network configuration changes. There should be no complete network downtime, though various carriers will be going up and down during this time period which could result in some limited inaccessibility, packet loss, increased latency, etc. Also, with network maintenance periods, there is always a risk of a short complete outage.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we appreciate your cooperation.
I'm pleased to announce that on November 8th, we formally brought online our new 10GigE from XO. We are now pushing on average over 1Gbit/sec over the new link. This increases our current capacity to 31Gbit/sec. We still have plans to add additional capacity with a 2nd AT&T GigE and a PCCW 10GigE. This will finalize our network lineup to consist of Savvis, XO, PCCW Global, TeliaSonera, GameRail and local peering, giving us a network line up we feel rivals most other network's performance offering. If there are any negative routing changes caused by this, please do not hesitate to open a support ticket with a traceroute though for a vast majority of members and their viewers should feel the effects of better routes and greater route diversity.