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Announcements & Downtime
Update 2:
And back.
– Zag
Update:
We’ve fixed the issue with the forum, and also fixed what caused it.
We suggest you change your password for your own assurance of safety.
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Hello FFR,
Just a few things I thought you’d like to know!
- We will likely be experiencing some heavy downtime Sunday, while FFR is moved to another server and service provider.
- We are aware that the forum header is missing. It made us laugh, and we’re going to figure out the easiest way to fix it as soon as possible.
- There have been some big updates to the R^3 engine recently, go check it out!
Thanks,
Zageron
Maintenance Early Monday Morning
So I am going to take a fourth shot and completely switching out hardware this Monday. We are transitioning into more space and more resources which will allow for our dev team to create true isolate dev environments and much more. To you, it means more features faster, less disruption and faster page performance through better caching.
We are aiming for 1 hour of downtime between 7am-8am Monday morning CST.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Faster Better Stronger
Howdy!
While this should not affect your ability to play the game or browse the site in any way, we are experimenting this weekend with a multitude of different web servers to see just how much we can accelerate page loads for everyone. Let us know if you find any problem pages and we will address them asap. Personally I have seen an average improvement of around 0.4 seconds. Do things feel any faster for you?
Cheers,
Synthlight
Server Issues on Forum
Hey guys,
We’re aware of the forum issues going on intermittently. We should have everything fixed soon.
-Tass
edit: Should be fixed!
Forum Upgrades
I’m sure many of you guys noticed that the forum is down, and possibly one or two other small misalignments around the site. Fear not, we’re hard at work doing some maitanence and upgrades around the forum and the site. Hopefully will all be finished and back to normal by the time everyone is up for school tomorrow.
-Tass, Synth, and the MegaMechaMaitanenceMachine
edit: everything should be back up now.
Scheduled Maintenance Almost Complete
The good news is that our datacenter underwent some pretty massive upgrades starting around midnight last night. These upgrades will bring more bandwidth to our datacenter which basically translates into quicker loading of site pages and the game levels.
The bad news (not really bad.. just more like annoying news) is that during the maintenance, some people were blocked out on Time Warner cable, Comcast cable and a few others. Being on Comcast myself, this was irritating while it was going on but it seems that the routing has been corrected now.
Vidchat and multiplayer are being relaunched shortly. Let me know if you see any other problems.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Credits Maintenance
*Edit* – Credit gone Un-Wild. Maintenance is all finished for tonight.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Upgrades
We will be moving chat and multiplayer services onto a new server today. If you notice any downtime with those specific services, it is only temporary. The rest of the site will not be affected.
Btw, you all kick ass.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Upgrades
We are running a few upgrades over the next hour. If you experience any page/game loading difficulties during that time, now you know why. 
Cheers,
Synthlight
