[:confused:] Extended server maintenanceFollow

What is with the extended maintenance on brand new (so to speak) servers? What do they do when contemplating a new server, send someone down to a basement and see if there is any useful equipment under the dust that can be used to cobble together a system?

You are confusing a new server (the "realm" or whatever named copy of EQ you play, i.e. Tunare, Quarm, etc), and a computer server, that is, a literal CPU (or, these days, several connected CPUs, each of which has multiple cores) along with it's associated memory and other support electronics.

The extended maintenance on the "servers" could be anything. Could be updating the computers, the network which supports them all, or even the supporting s/w that controls all of this. And these days, most of the individual servers (the individual PCs) are instanced, as needed, from a pool, and could very well be virtualized (another level of abstraction).

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Radarx shed some light on why they are doing server maintenance. Here is a quote from him on the EQ forums.



It's probable that this has something to do with future server merges but he wouldn't leak that out of a reply to a post. That would be a big announcement from probably Holly.