You can PM me now. Send me a copy/paste of your entire Paypal email receipt in a PM and I'll get you set up.

For anyone else with the same issue, if you are newly registered, you cannot PM anyone. This is to prevent spam bots from PM'ing everyone on the site. Once you've been registered for some time (I don't know the delay off hand), you will be allowed to PM. So if this happens to you, just post like this and we'll get to it. I don't know why some people are unable to automatically pay/register, most people have no problem with it.

No problem. Thanks for your patience. I'm guessing that it had to do with you paying so soon after you signing up for the site. You were still part of the "newly registered" group which does not have PM privileges (for spam botters).

Now try PM'ing.

I'm going to be doing some server maintenance over the next few days. I don't foresee needing to reboot the server, but I'm fairly sure that the performance will be far less than optimal. So if it's taking longer to start up Iocaine, or you get the occasional timeout error when starting it, this is probably why. I am still working on reducing the database size so that we can keep tracking statistics. To do this I will continue to archive the statistics tables (which I have been doing for several days now), but I will also be needing to rebuild the table indexes which will degrade performance. Short version, please be patient. And maybe try no...

Send me a PM with a copy/paste of your ENTIRE paypal email receipt (top to bottom, don't leave anything out) and I"ll get you set up.

During the FFXI server maintenance period today, I will be swapping out a sick hard drive and regenerating the RAID. I'm hoping to get this all done before the servers come back online, but just be aware that if Iocaine isn't able to contact the Iocaine server after the update, I'm probably still working on this. I'll post more as it moves along or after it's complete.

Edit: Finally all done with the HD swaps, server moves, and VM Ware upgrades (finally actually shelled out the $250 for VMWare Workstation). We should be good to go for a while now.

Windows update reboot.

Part 2 of the move is about to start. It shouldn't be down for more than about 30 minutes or so. I'll post again when it's back up.

Edit: Back up. One of the hard drives in the RAID is showing some SMART errors. So when Seagate sends me a replacement I'll have to bring the server back down for a little bit to replace the drive. Just a heads up.

I'm going to be moving the server again to speed things up, especially while backing up and purging the database. There will be a little down time this morning, probably half an hour or so. Then again once I get the hardware updated, most likely tomorrow. I'll post again before that happens. The first step will happen shortly, so please be patient.

I don't know what BOD is, but being the primary coder here these days, I doubt it would happen. Sorry.

Maintenance reboot.

Edit: Back up.

Alehldean wrote:Anyone else think this is a really random thread to ask for a RAR extracting program?

lol I didn't even notice, but it really is.

Yeah, what he said.
https://www.win-rar.com/download.html?&L=0

I'm running a scan on the server which is slowing it down. My network also seems to be super slow (my https://www.speedtest.net ping is like 500ms). Once the scan is done I'll reset all of my equipment to see if I can get it back to full speed. Hopefully it's not an AT&T problem...

Turns out my work laptop was backing up to the server while I'm VPN'd in from home which was blowing out all of my bandwidth. Hopefully it's working now. Let me know otherwise.

Maintenance reboot(s).