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Recent Outage: An Explanation
...and a rant as to why if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

By News Staff, GamingExcellence
Posted June 11, 2006
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You probably noticed the outage we had starting late last night up until an hour or so ago. I thought I'd pass along a little explanation.

Our managed provider applied a bunch of upgrades to our server on the weekend. One of these upgrades was to the database software used on the server. Our internal database engine is starting to show it’s age (we've got big stuff on the horizon). Since our database was originally designed for an older version of the software, the upgrade made some changes to the way the queries are handled (which is a pretty major problem when nothing loads properly). Regardless, the many errors were quickly traced and corrected (after a whole day of downtime), and we hope to have squashed the last of them.

If you happen to find any lingering bugs, please drop our webmaster a line and we'll be sure to get them fixed.

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