18:00 Moving regions off of RS9 - COMPLETED
All the regions on RS9 were moved to other servers. Affected region owners, please check them. I did check that the prim counts were identical, script states were saved, and money systems tested OK.
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
15:19 Moving regions off of RS9
Ever since the fire at OVH, that destroyed two of their datacenters in Strasbourg FR, server RS9 located in Roubaix FR has experienced heavy network congestion that has been the root cause of problems in regions hosted in RS9. OVH recreated most of the servers destroyed in Strasbourg to Roubaix. People have complained about TP problems, packet loss related problems (changes to objects reverting, moved object reverting to previous postions, various texture reversions, etc.)
The OVH technical support wants me to reboot that server in rescue mode to let them run a bunch of diagnostics, and that in turn would cause disruption of service to the all the regions in that server. I will not tolerate that kind of disruption and I am not convinced they would take care to preserve any data on that server. So, I have started moving all regions in RS9 to other servers. The regions remaining to be moved are:
I should have them back up by this evening on other servers. I do not have confidence in the France datacenter, so I will release RS9 soonest. DG has plenty of room in the remaining servers. At some point when the network congestion problems in the Eurozone are resolved, I will look into a server there.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
