Update on Outage

[WillyD]

I just wanted to post this recent update in case anyone hasn't seen this. It could be another week or two before we can get started playing games again.

-Bill


Admin's Outage Update:

I'd been posting updates on Facebook and neglected to post them here; my apologies.

So the physical server hosting our site has suffered a complete loss of the drive. How this has happened has not been explained, nor is it relevant. The point is that the server needs to be rebuilt.

Now, Sim Dynasty is close to 25 years old, and although that server is not its original server, it is still quite old. As mentioned before, it's been in the plan to upgrade and migrate the server over to a modern cloud, where a lot of the issues we run into would be less impactful. Rather than rebuild and restore the old server, we are going to try to push through and get the new cloud host up and running, considering the host has not even been able to get the drive replaced yet.

I don't have an ETA. I have been working day and night rebuilding the server configuration, but I am having some challenges getting the security right so it can talk to the existing database. Meanwhile, Tyson is working on the back end of things, working on getting the database itself onto a new host as well (I am sure you can imagine that a better hosting solution is at the top of our list). So, although progress is being made on recovery, I can't see anyone being able to log in for at least a week or two.

Once we get the security on the database straightened out, things should progress fairly quickly.

Thank you again for your patience! I'm looking forward to getting you all back in the game and, you know, sleeping again.

Chris

[WillyD]

Update:

The 24-team beta league is up and running. There are still some errors, but most of the important stuff is working correctly.

If anyone is interested in joining the 2TL (24 team beta league), let admin know. There are a couple of owners that have been AWOL, and there are a few dynastybot teams in Milwaukee, San Francisco and Texas. Admin will probably want to keep at least one as a dynastybot, but the other 2 should be available.

[WillyD]

We can get back into the site and look at our teams. I don't know when games can run again, but there's some progress!

[fredbirds]

Anyone else getting notices about needing to update subscriptions. I checked with PayPal and they were paid for Feb. but I am locked out of 4 speed leagues

[fredbirds]

It has fixed itself

[WillyD]

Everyone keep checking in on your teams on a daily basis. Games could start running again very soon. It sounds like most of the major issues have been resolved. Most of problems appear to be when accessing the site on a mobile device.

[Cheezweezel]

The message on the home page says games should start "this weekend".

I'm not sure if that means tomorrow, or if the message was posted prematurely, just wanted to point that out.

[WillyD]

The message on the home page says games should start "this weekend".

I'm not sure if that means tomorrow, or if the message was posted prematurely, just wanted to point that out.

Looks like we had 2 games played today.