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Migrating to a new cluster architecture
Dear citizens,
As you've probably read in one of the previous Insiders, the technical team here at eRepublik has been working hard to keep the game up and running. In fact, we're sure you've noticed some speed improvements in the past month or so. Ever since January this year, we've been continuously trying out some new things (and learned from our mistakes) thus at this point, we would like to tie up some loose ends and move to a new clustering architecture.
In spite of our best efforts to make this transition as painless as possible for everybody, some downtime will be needed in order to complete our setup. Therefore, on Wednesday, day 687 of the New World, the game will be offline for scheduled maintenance for about 4 hours starting 02:00 eRepublik time.
During this time, our team of engineers will rush to reinstall everything from load balancers, reverse proxies, web nodes, cache and database servers to accommodate the new setup.
The finished cluster will essentially mean better performance as new features and modules are coming online and more and more people are joining the New World.
In case you wonder what the new cluster looks like, here and here are some smug shots of 384GB RAM and 120CPU Cores Nehalem Xeons all ready to tackle the game
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Regards,
The Tech Team
Update: Starting Monday, day 685 of the New World, by eating food citizens will no longer receive 1 XP. Instead, they'll receive 2 XP by "training," hence the total amount of received XP remains the same.
As you've probably read in one of the previous Insiders, the technical team here at eRepublik has been working hard to keep the game up and running. In fact, we're sure you've noticed some speed improvements in the past month or so. Ever since January this year, we've been continuously trying out some new things (and learned from our mistakes) thus at this point, we would like to tie up some loose ends and move to a new clustering architecture.
In spite of our best efforts to make this transition as painless as possible for everybody, some downtime will be needed in order to complete our setup. Therefore, on Wednesday, day 687 of the New World, the game will be offline for scheduled maintenance for about 4 hours starting 02:00 eRepublik time.
During this time, our team of engineers will rush to reinstall everything from load balancers, reverse proxies, web nodes, cache and database servers to accommodate the new setup.
The finished cluster will essentially mean better performance as new features and modules are coming online and more and more people are joining the New World.
In case you wonder what the new cluster looks like, here and here are some smug shots of 384GB RAM and 120CPU Cores Nehalem Xeons all ready to tackle the game
.Regards,
The Tech Team
Update: Starting Monday, day 685 of the New World, by eating food citizens will no longer receive 1 XP. Instead, they'll receive 2 XP by "training," hence the total amount of received XP remains the same.
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nice to hear
When will we see the battle history again?
Awesome!
booo i don't like maintenance
I'd like to see a prewiew of these improvements...
Way to go
keep it up
Indeed. Hail eRepublik, Portugal & PEACE.
That is some serious piece of hardware
Nice rack O_O
Only 3.2GB RAM per CPU doesnt seem optimal to me.
wow nice hardware
when we will have pvp stuff?
just make backups plz,
thanks
before doing anything
w00t those are great news .. upgrades are always nice
/salute
Thank you tech team
As von Moltke says, "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." The phenomenological world may be Newtonian, and hence in principle calculable, but thousands of men in desperate struggle is a messy, incalculable situation. "For want of a nail, a kingdom was lost".
Expect turbulences.
God damn it! (pardon my language sir)
I want that kinda hardware too!
V O T E D!
4 hours, wow, nice thing.
I have hope, this is not end of world. Good luck.
''by eating food citizens will no longer receive 1 XP''
Why?
what are those pictures??????
It's gotta be some big maintance. I'm looking forward to see the result.
No more feeding the invites for gold
Congrats eRep team. The new equipment looks nice. I'm envious. But please do me (and the rest of the eRep players) a favor: DO NOT RUSH. Take all the time you need, because we don't want to come back to any sort of bug-fest. Take your time, make sure everything's in order, and then release it for play again.
looks like feeding inactive players will no longer be possible.
hahaha
No EP for food?
Oh no.
"looks like feeding inactive players will no longer be possible."
@Megakorporacija Indeed! Isn`t that a good news ?
OH GOD how can we feed our thousand-babies now !???
Uhh, i was just about to get rich !!!
I liked getting health from food better...
Nice with some upgrades!
Leoa the big project of Turkey failed now
you guys are genius! That last liner there... Haha that effectively kills feeding babies and getting Society Builders!! Way to go!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
eating will not increase experience, i can't believe
i'll shoot my self
why now????
delay it for few days pleaseeeeeeeee ((( my referrals are almost level 6
That's some serious stuff to be installed...
I want 10% of the value to make a nice holiday again...
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/new-module-j-modul-965200/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/new-[..]1/20</a>
this is stupid idea...why somebody can earn money on inactive invites, and somebody will be stopped in the middle of job... let us just more 30days...that what are you doing is unfair...
quite an impressive cluster, color me jealous
no more feeding to get 5 gold
damn guys and i tought comps with 6 gb ram are awesome !!!
*no more feeding to get 5 gold *
yeah
tq
nice tnx
DON'T DO THAT! I believe I am not the only one to say that many people you invite leave the game, and you invested your money to get them to lvl 6. You just cost me 10 gold. And who knows how much money you cost other players!!!
yeah and i got only 2 more guys (
that are almost lvl 6 and i think they will need 2 exp on monday -_-Q!!!!!
kosovo je srbija
thank admin team! keep up the good work!
lol
some players took a lot of money on inactive players, and we can`t earn anything...you should say 35 days ago that you do this...
you should get exp when working, not training and based on your wellness -
2 exp for 95,00-100;
1,9 exp for wellness 90.0-94,99;
1,8 for 85,00-89.99
etc.
35 more days pls...we have invites that are waiting to be cashed in. pls implement later...this is not fair...((
Update: Starting Monday, day 685 of the New World, BY EATING FOOD CITIZEN WILL NO LONGER RECIEVE 1XP. Instead, they'll receive 2 XP by "training," hence the total amount of received XP remains the same.
How am I going to earn some XP if I need to go to holiday?
...and one more thing...
Nice moves dear admins ((((
You just show to all of us that all you care about IS D**N MONEY!!!!!
Now you can frilly increase price for wellness pack, gold packages, etc. and all other things you always wanted to because why hiding anymore? You show us your true face.
This guy is a true prophet check it out:
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/erepublik-in-next-5-years-admin-match-dady-jabery17--965067/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/erep[..]1/20</a>
Donate him some money, he have a talent, he deserve it!
By the way I have no referrals.
@eRedbeard, the real reason food will no longer give exp, is because people were cheating. They would create multi-accounts, but never use them (oppose their will on them), instead they would just feed them up to level 6 to receive their gold.
Update: Starting Monday, day 685 of the New World, by eating food citizens will no longer receive 1 XP. Instead, they'll receive 2 XP by "training," hence the total amount of received XP remains the same.
whether it means that there is no easy profit with social bilder
I have invested a lot of rl money into running ads :S
At least give 35+ days before pulling the rug beneath us!
nice improve admin....!!
stop this madness
some countries depend on this type of earnings
i buy food only for exp points...
u should close all grain,food companys !!!
I owned this hardware at home, but now it's absolete for me. I used to play Mario with that hardware.
@macoute: "Only 3.2GB RAM per CPU doesnt seem optimal to me." This is the maximum amount for 32bit operating systems.
(Generic inane comment congratulating the admin team for doing the obvious)
then close all grain and food companys becouse it will be usless to buy any food when it will not give exp, better to just fight and heal every day
how many feed-inactives are crying... good job eRep team.
can sombody with a lot of sub write an article wot protests that decision
this will kill a lot of young players
stop this madness
Let us lift up around the world at his feet
stop this madness
@Joey Jackson, ok but its insane that majority should suffer because of few
only 4 hours:))?????
i have some doubts.
voted
"Update: Starting Monday, day 685 of the New World, by eating food citizens will no longer receive 1 XP. Instead, they'll receive 2 XP by "training," hence the total amount of received XP remains the same."
Just my luck! I had a paid advertisement for eRepublik, which brought in quite a few people. Obviously only a fraction of the people reach level 6, so now I can't even feed them up.
Cost me a couple of hundred gold and obviously the money spent in advertising. Great
Teaches me never to do that again.
keep up the good work ..
make some backups... we dont want a 'rollback' to happen
@tisha@
this is not good idea
ah nuts.
disaster food industry will fall
admin plz stop this madness
or at least create a poll
Its not not a good idea, its a terrible idea
Admins, give me my 30golds and then you can forbide exp points for food ;-((
tutto facile, quando si prendono i finanziamenti dalla comunità europea...
it should be better to create a "feed" button than don't give 1xp for eating. this way, the newborns can't be automatically fed and we continue to buy food every day.
"Update: Starting Monday, day 685 of the New World, by eating food citizens will no longer receive 1 XP. Instead, they'll receive 2 XP by "training," hence the total amount of received XP remains the same."
Great job Admins!
Nice move:)
not a good idea at all :__(
in my opinion, it was a fair trade,
the one who paid for gold had time to play the game while other of us spent a lot of time promoting you around to get the gold.
now when we don't have that chance, we lack in resources.
by we, i mean less developed IRL countries. (e.g. 80 EUR package is 50% of average salary in Bosnia, while 80 EUR is 2% of average German salary) etc. etc.
Please consider this decision -it is our chance to dream high ~ we should have that right^^
You know, it's like this:
You get 5 gold as a reward because you made someone else to actually play until he/she reaches lvl 6.
If you feed a character who actually left the game in the second after registering, I can't see a moral point for you getting your 5 golds.
Yes, put FEED button IT will make good solution
but.......... can it play crysis? lol
aurelije the family guy:
Yes, if you keep inviting people, and they play, you still get your 5 golds in the same time. You claim your golds for promoting the game, and you still get it.
There is no bonus for unsuccessful promotion. I think it will be more of a fair trade now.
However, it may eventually turn true, that now less people will promote the game. But this will be a headache of the eRepublik staff. Maybe they will change it back after they see whether it was a good business decision or not.
this pics reminds me of old days wen i worked in pc hardware shop
great job and add eKosovo & Metohia to eSerbia!
I WANT 1 XP FROM EATING! AND I WANT IT NOW AND FOREVER AND FOREVER AND FOREVER.
perhaps, that would not be the best idea. we have spent a lot of time promoting erepublik on numerous forums and websites, and have invested a lot of our time and money into feeding babies, and i think that we deserve that 5 gold reward. would you please take some time to question your decision one more time, so that many players would be satisfied?
Ouch, quite some hardware.
These days it seems to be the solution to every problem... more hardware... more hardware... more hardware...
It's a pity, a temporary solution so expensive...
Changing rules has to be published & give some time so players can adjust to these. People actually spent their real money on promoting and expecting to have gold from that in erepublik game. They calculated it and said I'll spent some time in promoting for reward. & now in middle of the process rules are changed. You needed to give more time to adjust on new rules.
Not only it's not fair , you know about feeding for some time & still you made this decision suddenly. That's a big THANK YOU to all players who helped you grow this game. Which is what it is !
From this point, some players are privileged & some were cut out.
Solution : give more time for adjustment.
As you received positive critics till now , you could easily receive negative ones from now on.
This is not a good idea
NAW DUDE!!! NAW!!!
btw do want cluster :o
Good decision ! No more chance to feed baby's and on that way reach level 6 ! At last good decision !
No more babies feeding
Please, just give us another 35 days...
I miss the battle History
Good job.
The reward will now go to actual society builders, not only zombie feeders.
Great, marvelous, THE BEST idea by adding 1 EXP to training, NOT to food.
Finally, we'll see REAL Society Builders.
I hope you'll find a solution for Media Mogul medal as well; too much spam with hundreds of programs of Media Mogulism going around.