It's been quite a while since you've heard from me, but it's time for an update... and some changes!
First and foremost - Thank you to all of you who continue to support our gaming community. I realize it's past it's ten minutes of fame but those of you who love it are what keep it running
Now, with that out of the way we're going to be making some pretty large scale changes to the RunUO and UOGamers world. As of the end of this month we will be decommissioning the bulk of our Cincinnati based Datacenter. Over the past few months I've been slowly migrating a lot of our websites or projects we host over to the Rackspace Cloud. RunUO.com and the rest of it's affiliate sites have yet to move but will some time before the end of this month.
That leaves us with the game servers... there has been a lot of debate about where we put them and how we handle them going forward but I figured we could actually let you as the players offer us some feedback. Through the years we've hosted the game servers and web servers at various different places... Washington DC, Texas (Houston), Texas (Dallas), Seattle and Cincinnati.
Given all of these different places we've typically gotten the best overall response from our users by being in Texas. That said I'm going to offer up a few IP's of places we're considering and let you, our users make the choice! I feel like putting this control back in your hands is the best choice given your support for our community! The choices are:
Texas: 64.39.8.163
Dallas: 74.86.116.210
Houston: 173.193.70.98
San Jose: 50.23.64.58
Washington DC: 208.43.102.250
Seattle: 67.228.112.250
Vote in the poll to express your choice... this will allow us to better understand what works for you.
One thing to keep in mind - it's not *just* about your ping latency... it's also about how many hops it takes, how much packet loss you experience and all of those other things. If you don't understand this or don't know what it means don't bother worrying about it... just ping it and make a vote.
Thank you all for your continued support!
Thanks,
Ryan
First and foremost - Thank you to all of you who continue to support our gaming community. I realize it's past it's ten minutes of fame but those of you who love it are what keep it running
Now, with that out of the way we're going to be making some pretty large scale changes to the RunUO and UOGamers world. As of the end of this month we will be decommissioning the bulk of our Cincinnati based Datacenter. Over the past few months I've been slowly migrating a lot of our websites or projects we host over to the Rackspace Cloud. RunUO.com and the rest of it's affiliate sites have yet to move but will some time before the end of this month.
That leaves us with the game servers... there has been a lot of debate about where we put them and how we handle them going forward but I figured we could actually let you as the players offer us some feedback. Through the years we've hosted the game servers and web servers at various different places... Washington DC, Texas (Houston), Texas (Dallas), Seattle and Cincinnati.
Given all of these different places we've typically gotten the best overall response from our users by being in Texas. That said I'm going to offer up a few IP's of places we're considering and let you, our users make the choice! I feel like putting this control back in your hands is the best choice given your support for our community! The choices are:
Texas: 64.39.8.163
Dallas: 74.86.116.210
Houston: 173.193.70.98
San Jose: 50.23.64.58
Washington DC: 208.43.102.250
Seattle: 67.228.112.250
Vote in the poll to express your choice... this will allow us to better understand what works for you.
One thing to keep in mind - it's not *just* about your ping latency... it's also about how many hops it takes, how much packet loss you experience and all of those other things. If you don't understand this or don't know what it means don't bother worrying about it... just ping it and make a vote.
Thank you all for your continued support!
Thanks,
Ryan