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Why did tonight's "Maintenance" take so long?
Well folks, as you might have noticed -- we took a planned downtime this afternoon for what we called "Maintenance". What we didn't tell you was that we were in the midst of an epic lag-fighting battle against all odds--lag demons had us cornered! Queue raging power metal here... (P.S., I recommend Hammerfall and Kamelot.)
Most of our previous trouble with the server has to do with the massive number of users that we have here on RolePlayGateway. As of this moment, we have over 25,000 registered accounts, over one million forum posts, and nearly one thousand roleplays registered in our latest hybrid play-by-post roleplaying system. We've been running a combination of three different servers for the larger portion of this year (Nginx, Apache, and MySQL, for you gearheads...)--which for the most part, kept things online, but they were slow at times, and even crashed entirely during others.
For the epic battlers of Sparta RolePlayGateway, this was madness. Something needed to be done to fight back the hordes of lag demons that constantly assailed the server room with wave after wave of laggertack--and it was with the force of a million suns that the RPG Staff fought valiantly to bring this war to a close.
a mysterious bard wrote:...It was the bloodiest battle the world ever saw,
With civilians looking on in total awe.
And the battle raged on for a century;
Many lives were claimed, but eventually...
The champion stood, the rest saw their better...
After the battle was waged, only one side could prevail. As the dust settled on the battlefield, the winner was clear.
Without further ado, we are proud to present das wünderserver 9001: the latest in anti-lag technology brought directly to you by the cloud. Lag times in chat should be next to nilch from this point forward, and the rest of RolePlayGateway will be in lock-step with the pace of the modern web.
We'll be spending the rest of this week tweaking and tuning the site to accommodate for this amazing new techology; so don't panic if there's something broke. Head straight over to the Help Forum and make yourself heard so our expert team of Coders can give that part of the site some extra training with this new comrade-in-arms.
Now, how's about that Valhalla-esque celebration? :)
Gaia Interactive, Inc. acquires RolePlayGateway
I am with mixed emotion announcing that after an intense series of negotiations, the online social gaming giant Gaia Interactive, Inc. (which runs Gaia Online) has purchased RolePlayGateway for an undisclosed sum. Effective immediately, I will be stepping down as owner of this site and will be handing the reins over to the new man in charge, Lanzer.
RolePlayGateway's innovative new method of organizing online roleplay was the deciding factor in Gaia Interactive Inc.'s decision. Gaia representatives stated;
We are extremely excited to have access to this new set of tools. We will begin deploying it immediately to Gaia Online to help our community find the vampire and high school roleplays as quickly as possible, and begin using the staff to write tutorials such as "How to roleplay as Edward Cullen" and "Becoming Emo: a Beginner's Guide".
All Gaia Online members will also be able to embed the RPG Chat in their forum topics, and participate and chat with the RolePlayGateway members using the new chat restrictions, where messages cannot be longer than 100 letters (we chose to do this to help prevent people from being too wordy!). Additionally, any and all roleplays on RolePlayGateway tagged with "Advanced", "Original", or "Epic" will be shut down to prevent them from overwhelming our 9 and 10 year old users.
Together with Gaia Interactive Inc., we can move forward into the future of online roleplay, where teenage emotion is king and vampire-werewolf-angel-demon hybrids are abundant!