The Dark One is Touching this world too...

[Ireond]

  The Bonds holding together the forums seem to be fading more rapidly than usual.  Which Ajah is in charge of keeping them refreshed?

[Mirshann Uuranor]

You know, I was just ranting about that in the Kin. :P

If you find out, I would be interested in knowing too.

 

Darn bandwidth inadequacy! *shakes fist*

[claireducky]

Because of the amount of traffic that DM is getting right now because of the book release (both on and off the forums), the server is currently on a schedule to restart every 15 minutes of so. This helps throttle down the traffic on the boards and give it a chance to catch up.  So if you are having trouble accessing the boards in the mornings or early afternoon U.S. time, it is likely that you caught it during a reset.  Wait a couple of minutes then try again.  If you are trying to get on in the evening U.S. time, there might just be WAY too much traffic even with the server resets, and you'll get error messages like "SMF could not connect to the database".  This might take longer to clear up but thankfully it will all calm down in a month or so.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Claire

[Vanion]

This angers the Sock Puppet Reborn greatly!!

 

*Holds up the sock puppet and points to it with his other hand*

 

This is his angry face! FEAR HIS DISPLEASURE!

[Arie]

*ggls*

 

I want to snuggle the sock puppet, its so cute!! ^__^

*loves that comic btw*

 

Well, unless you want WoT to be less popular, we're kinda stuck.. :/

[Ireond]

everything she said, really

 

  That makes sense.  But I still like the idea of trying to rustle up some Ajah to strengthen the wards.  Why *innocent look* would it be an org builder, perchance?

 

  Just a mischevious thought, you know.

[Elgee]

It's the trollocs ... someone at SG let them loose again  >:(

[Arie]

Trollocs are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. 8)

 

- A Green Saying

[Ticondrius]

You are...RESTARTING THE SERVER ON A SCHEDULE to maintain bandwidth limits???  :o

 

Who's the server admin?  That's got to be the greatest traffic limiting hack I've ever heard of, and that's not a good thing.

[claireducky]

I'm not sure of the mechanics of how/why it is being restarted; email help@dragonmount.com for more details if you must.  The Server Admin is Jason, the owner of the site, who also owns the server.

[U4ea]

Translation for those less tech-savvy than the others...

 

Jason has had to start rotating the shifts of the rats who run the server on those big spinning wheels. The number of people visiting DM these days exhausts them every 15 minutes and he has to change them out for the next shift of rats to make sure we can have 14 of every 15 minutes with enough power for you to enjoy the addiction you so willingly plug in to.

 

*smiles* See? easy.

[Ireond]

And now there are RATS in the White Tower?  The bonds are definitely weakening

[Moghedian]

Are you trying to find out what 100 AS look like when they're hysterical, Ireond? :P :D

[Ireond]

If I wanted to do that, I'd have more fun at my Discussion thread of "How to Handle your Aes Sedai" which can be found here: http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50176.12.html

 

Least it's not spiders.  I think the Sisters own enough cats amongst them that they can handle the rats.

[Elgee]

Wards, not bonds *twaps the Pimpernel* ... our Bonds are just fine, thank you very much  :D