28-04-2005 13:14									#1
	Settler 3 Is Born - Forum Downtime April 29th Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

On April 29th (that's tomorrow), we will be upgrading to a new server.

The process will start aproximately at midnight Apolyton Time. The forums will be closed and will open again on the new server, Settler 3

If all go well we should be done in the afternoon

	28-04-2005 13:58									#2
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

Specs?

	28-04-2005 14:47									#3
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Settler 3 is a dual xeon 2.4ghz with 2g of ram and 2 scsi 70g drives

	28-04-2005 14:49									#4
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So I was right about my speculation about the PLUS money going towards a new server.

Yes, specs? Dual Intel Xeon? Maybe 2,8 or 3 GHz? A few RAID SATA or SCSI hard drives? 2 or 4 gigs of RAM? Or... even a dual Opteron? Wait, that would mean moving to different datacenter. Still going to be with EV1Servers?

	28-04-2005 14:50									#5
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Markos beat it to me. But my guess was quite right.

	28-04-2005 14:52									#6
	Increase the size of your Attachments

for comparison, settler 2 is a dual xeon 2ghz with 1.5g of ram and 1 60g ide drive

	28-04-2005 15:11									#7
	Got spare money?

quote: Originally posted by Rasbelin Markos beat it to me. But my guess was quite right.

Well, I'm sure few people would guessed it to be the following:

Celeron 1400, 128MB Ram and two USB2!! 512MB keys.

	28-04-2005 15:17									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

quote: Originally posted by Rasbelin So I was right about my speculation about the PLUS money going towards a new server.

partially true, i think it would be more accurate to say that plus money have went to reducing the overall amount of served ads

quote: Wait, that would mean moving to different datacenter. Still going to be with EV1Servers?

still on ev1, different datacenter. unfortunately for the Earthquake Disaster Plan this will mean that settler 3 will be on the same datacenter as our backup servers(from top40 and apogee). at least we have dsl lines.....

	28-04-2005 15:23									#9
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

None the less, great to see at least some of the cash going towards a good cause, ie. Settler III.

	28-04-2005 15:43									#10
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

less ads is not a good cause?

	28-04-2005 15:49									#11
	Inflate your Upload Space

Yes, but I don't mind a few ads versus having something like Settler III to improve performance. Never said removing ads isn't a good cause, if we get nitpicky.

	28-04-2005 18:19									#12
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

I like new server and no ads.
Hooray for the best of both worlds.

	28-04-2005 19:15									#13
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

to downtime(what will I do? )
to new server.

	28-04-2005 19:43									#14
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Yay for new server.

But... Settler 3? Isn't it time it got promoted to Chieftain at least?

	28-04-2005 19:52									#15
	Suffering from ads?

Settler, engineer... we might need a new favicon?

, or perhaps ?

	28-04-2005 20:28									#16
	Full PM-box? Change here!

so we're running three servers on 'poly now?

	28-04-2005 20:38									#17
	Increase the size of your Attachments

I think we have just one, but this one will be better than the old.

	29-04-2005 00:10									#18
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

what is Apolyton time?

	29-04-2005 00:15									#19
	Suffering from ads?

New Server.

	29-04-2005 00:28									#20
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

Self biased,

one.

Dissident,

EST.

	29-04-2005 00:59									#21
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

quote: Originally posted by Dissident what is Apolyton time?

Greek time I guess. Or Canadian, but that could mean almost anything really...

	29-04-2005 01:02									#22
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

quote: Originally posted by Rasbelin Dissident, EST.

Didn't see this one before now...
Eastern Standard Time, right? What is that in +/- GMT?

	29-04-2005 02:23									#23
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Actually, it's Eastern Daylight Time now... I believe that's GMT-4.

	29-04-2005 02:29									#24
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Good thing it is going to be a nice day here tomorrow. I would be sooo f***** otherwise.

Nikolai, you needs to go out too, methinks.

	29-04-2005 02:33									#25
	Inflate your Upload Space

quote: Originally posted by MarkG Settler 3 is a dual xeon 2.4ghz with 2g of ram and 2 scsi 70g drives

quote: Originally posted by MarkG for comparison, settler 2 is a dual xeon 2ghz with 1.5g of ram and 1 60g ide drive

So I guess the main bottelneck is the HDD.
Anyway if not for some other internal changes this looks more like a settler 2.5... you know civers have high expectations

	29-04-2005 02:45									#26
	Remove this text

Apolyton time shouldn't need DST, since it exists in a non seasonal reality. But EST is UT-5. EDT is UT-4, which is silly because not even Britain is using GMT at the moment, so EDT is BST-5, so AT should remain British time -5, or Central European time -6, or Polish Time -7.

Or just change to UT so that everyone knows what's happening.

	29-04-2005 04:31									#27
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

quote: Originally posted by Nikolai Greek time I guess. Or Canadian, but that could mean almost anything really...

Canada borders on three Oceans. Our navy rules the blue waves of the True North, Strong and Free.

	29-04-2005 04:53									#28
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

I guess I'll have to find something to do during this time . Like play computer games.

	29-04-2005 05:53									#29
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Cool! What will be the effects of this new hardware? Anything we will notice...or just better performance in general?

	29-04-2005 07:30									#30
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

We can only hope our money is going toward a good cause.