News Archive 2023

July 2023


2023-07-13 06:30 UTC - Dios

Yesterday (2023-07-12) around 19:50 UTC:
During server maintenance that ordinarily should not cause problems, the VM running VikingMUD froze completely and needed a reset. The MUD was back up at 19:56 UTC. Sorry for the problem!


2023-07-04 13:32 UTC - Dios

The MUD is back up. Some system services are not yet ready, I will look into those tomorrow.

2023-07-04 13:22 UTC - Dios

This is a completely new VM (but on the same hardware), and I am working to import the configuration from the old VM so that we can be back up as soon as possible.

2023-07-04 07:44 UTC - Dios

Things did not work out as planned, due to severe problems with the boot area of the virtual machine. Several hours of work remain.

2023-07-03 08:53 UTC - Dios

During today's regular reboot, I'll reboot the server as well. Please allow for some additional minutes of downtime.


May 2023


2023-05-07 19:21 UTC - Dios

The board of the VikingMUD organization has announced the annual members' meeting.


February 2023

2023-02-28 11:19 UTC - Dios

The move appears to have worked well. Thanks to Cryzeck for donating new server hardware!

2023-02-28 06:45 UTC - Dios

Today, we'll move VikingMUD to a new server.

This requires a longer downtime than usual, approximately 45-60 minutes.

The MUD will be shut down at 10:30 UTC (11:30 CET), and back up again between 11:15 and 11:30 UTC (12:15 and 12:30 CET) unless there are unforeseen problems.

2023-02-06 13:17 UTC - Dios

We had a short-notice reboot today to see if a newer Linux kernel might fix some in-MUD performance and lag issues. The MUD was down for longer than expected, from 12:45 UTC until 13:13 UTC.

2023-02-02 11:09 UTC - Dios

The reboot went fine and the MUD was quickly back up again, although with some in-MUD lag that clever people are investigating.

2023-02-02 08:19 UTC - Dios

The server will reboot for security upgrades during regular MUD reboot today. This adds 3-20 minutes downtime, the MUD is expected back up between 08:35 and 08:55 UTC.


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