Chicago down tonight for re-installation

I need to reinstall this server with a more current OS and custom kernel, since the current OS (CentOS 5.6) doesn't support the new sandy bridge hardware which is causing performance and stability issues. The host now gave me KVM access so I'll do that tonight.

Expect 3 - 4 hours downtime starting at around 7 pm CET.

 

Yes you can replace it

I'm almost done btw, system is like three times more fast. So minimal the OS boots in less than 3 seconds

 

Allright

Anyway, servers are coming back one by one now. However L4D1 has an issue. If I load sourcebans plugin it crashes on startup. If I remove sourcebans, start the server and load it when it started everything goes fine. I still have to look into this but if it crashes now it won't come back without manual intervention.

I think it has something to do with the remote database connection but I'm not sure. If I can't fix this I might put L4D1 on the LA server.

 

All back online.

 

One small issue still to fix, we have packet drops on the network link. I need to update the ethernet driver tonight so there will be a little bit more downtime. Hopefully max 30 minutes.