Ok - Thanks for the update KLS :)

As KLS said, we are just waiting for old PEQ to come back up to get the data off. I don't have an ETA, and neither does FNW. It's completely and totally up to the host at this point.

Once the machine is back up, it'll no longer be used as our game or web server. Gaeorn and KLS helped me out a ton and worked out a plan where the web and game servers will be on two separate hosts. The game server will be hosted by Rogean (Many thanks to him!), and the rest will be hosted where we will be moving our entire operation once we get enough donations. (The current hardware is fine for a web server, but cannot handle a game server.) Geaorn and KLS already put a lot of the pieces into place, and were just waiting on me to finalize some minor stuff, and purchase the new domain. Once old PEQ is back up that's when my work starts. I'll grab all the data, and merge it into our new hosts. I'll probably do the web server first, then the game server as the game server has come to depend on some of the web functions we have.

The new website will be:

http://peqtgc.com

That domain is owned by me, so I have full control over it.

peqtgc.net and peqtgc.org also redirect to the peqtgc.com. (Thanks to Gaeorn for purchasing those two domains! Somebody send him a donation to cover that, please. I believe it should be around $40.) I'll see if I can get projecteq.net forwarded to peqtgc.com, but if not, I'll just replace the index.php on old PEQ with a redirect. The new login will probably be login.peqtgc.com, but that hasn't been setup yet, and won't be until we are ready to move forward with the game server (again, need old PEQ's data.)

As for the old PEQ, if it stays up it may get used as a secondary test server, where KLS can conduct inhumane experiments to see how much EQEmu can take. We may also use it for events and the like occasionally.

There will be no temporary server at this point. I don't see the point in wasting time working on a temporary solution, especially when that will just create more work when old PEQ comes back up and it's being split over the two hosts.

Sorry for the delay in the update, I got held up an extra day and spent the day yesterday getting caught up/working things out.

Ya know, this is the difference between PEQ and live: If this were live, people would be demanding a triple xp weekend once it was back up.

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Sounds like a winner, Cavedude. Looking forward to playing on the new setup.

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Thanks for the update cd. Hope your trip went well and welcome back :)

And a big Thank You to Rogean, KLS, and Gaeorn for their help with PEQ.

Thank you for the update and your work on this. It has saddened me to see some of the posts here. I hope you don't take it to heart. I have tried to read all (although some of it is drivel) but haven't seen anything about how close you are to reaching your donation goal. I will be doing so within the next week. All the Skj alts will be glad to be back home once things are up and running. Thanks again.

Sounds very good,

I'm excited about the server coming back up!

Long live PEQ and thanks to all those who are helping and working with it.

This is Cantdrop.

It was closer to $25 and there is no need to give me anything for it. If you were considering doing so, put that into the pot for the new servers for PEQ.

I got some time in on Titan testing out a couple different 6 man teams. think i'll be rolling a couple new guys to change my team once it's back up :)

Live also costs money...

did we lay off long enough reya?.........

well ez server has lost its shine lol, max aas, epic 3.0, uber facking gear.... 3 days clocked on toon.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility.

Cavedude is late.

This is the only explanation I can think of (substitute Cavedude in for Nino): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdklJDAzDKk

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It's the only logical explantion.

I wouldn't mind 3x EXP hehe... only problem is it would ruin my homework time ahhhh!!!!

Actually I think it was a gift from god that PEQ went down like the first week of school for me. Seriously... As much as I love it, I'm glad I was forced to study when I had nothing better to do :)

But if we get server up tonight... OMG I'm gonna stock up on caffiene drinks, order a pizza, and play all damn weekend.

skeet skeet

I'll be in the same boat. Grind, baby, grind! Here's to hoping that it will be up soon!

Thanks for all the hard work and for the updates on what is going on CD, Gaeorn, KLS, and any others I forget to mention. This is a great server, and I truly appreciate everything that you do for us consumers. I know that once I earn some spare cash, I'm going to donate to the fund. Hopefully it will be in time for Maladien to match me! Once again, thank you.

So it turns out this time the crash actually resulted a better server stability for PEQ at the end.... well hopefully anyway

so... did the server ever gets rebooted by the host at all in the past 7 days?

Does not appear it has. The co-lo has been informed but has not done anything yet as far as we can tell. It may very well be that employees would get into trouble for working on the PEQ server when they have other things to do. This could explain the delay.

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Didn't sound like that was possible from reading the update.

Sounded more like 4-8 hours uploading, configuring, and testing after FNW box comes up. Unless they wanna leave FNW box up till the server is ready to change over to new box.

thats lame.

*holding my breath*

I hope I don't die waiting :)

Oh well, I shouldn't be playing much right now anyways,

Gaeorn, thanks boss!

You know my heart is still in PEQ!

Cantdrop

That is the problem when a server company grandfathers in a free server slot for an old employee, those who actually Pay are taken care of first even if if is a minor problem. Not nice but the way the world runs, sadly enough.

And yes, thankee much from me anyway for not scrambling on their backs when they were just beginning to figure out the basic problem. You're not the worst by Far in giving them a raft.

just lookin for an eta a guesstimate will do. ;D

Unfortunately, we really have no idea when the co-lo will get to the server. If prior problems are used as a guide, it has taken them anywhere from a day to over a month to respond to a request to deal with the server. However, the majority of instances are dealt with within the first two weeks. So cross your fingers that this time isn't the rare extra long wait.

How come you have to reply to every other post on this thread? Spamming the forums with random comments isn't making things go any faster...

Thanks devs for all your work, much appreciated.

UK UofL getting ready to play ^^

how old are you fatboy?

Can we please stay on topic? Post elsewhere for rants and raves and trivial drivel not related to the status of the PEQ server please.

im old enough to be your great great grand father.

thats not on topic either. the only thing that will be on topic is gaeorn's or CD's post... so, should everyone stop posting?

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why cant we all just chat here because these are the people who really care about the server? instead of going and making a thread somehwere else that could be intruded on by p99 peeps or other server folk... everyone needs to chillax, the server will be up when the server will be up... in the meantime, sit down, have some coffee and shoot the breeze with your fellow PEQers.

Just got word that PEQ *may* be getting a reboot tomorrow. There goes my weekend if so :P *Fingers crossed*.

Correct, it isn't on topic, it was a polite request to stay on topic. This reply is not on topic either and I'd be perfectly fine with it being deleted, right along with every single post that is not related to the server being down atm.

If it's not directly related to the server being down, Yes.

Because thats not the "Topic" of this thread.

The only thing keeping folks from p99 or other servers from posting in here is them not having anything to say about the Topic of this thread. Go make a post titled "Shooting the breeze with my fellow PEQers"

Agreed.

I am having coffee atm, and if i'm interested in shooting the breeze with my fellow PEQers I'll be sure to hop over into your new thread where the topic is 'Shooting the breeze with my fellow PEQers' or whatever you choose to title it. (while that may sound sarcastic, it's not intended as such, it is to be taken literally)

Thanks for the update CD.

well the topic of the thread is "PEQ is down again ??" so really the only post that would be on topic would be "yes." or any form of the word... that is, if you want to get literal.

status posts should be made in the threat PEQ status!....

and thanks CD for rockin my socks.

I forgot to mention earlier in the thread, a few hours before server went down (then failed to reboot), there were PoP zones crashing multiple times with only 30 people in them that usually hold 90 <free agents> with no problem.

Assuming it's not code/ISP related, box might have collected enough dust in the year it was on to start overheating the hard drives/CPU/Ram or something like that. It's happened to me a few times. Hopefully somebody will turn it off a while before rebooting if that's the case.

FA doesnt raid with 90, l2count

Reason for staying on topic is because anyone just coming into this situation now has to wade thru 16 pages of posts, about 1/3 of which are actually worth reading. I'm reading this thread to check for updates as to the status of the PEQ server, not whatever random crap happens to be running thru someones head at the moment, or about how people "cant wait to play again".

On that note, is there a way to ignore posts from annoying forum members?

So since there are other people on this forums that "annoy you" you are going to try and make an example of me? i think the community is well aware of the situation at hand..... its been down for 2 weeks.... and yes can we get an annoying forum member filter so i can stop quoting this guy and telling him the truth?

and for anyone checking this thread for server status.... im gonna let you in on a little secret.... check the old website and the new website.... when those are up the game server will be up asap. (asap doesnt mean right then and there it means as soon as possible.)

1) Click on their username in one of their posts
2) Select "View Public Profile"
3) Click "Add <handle> to Your Ignore List" above Contact Info (link is subtle)
4) Click "Save List"