First, information on the outage for those who didn't see my blog post.
Due to a failure of our router that connects us to the Internet,
CSFBL is temporarily unavailable. A new router is expected to be
received from Verizon on May 2, and we hope to be back online by the
weekend.
To be specific, the router didn’t completely fail. The router’s
external interface (to the public Internet) works fine, as does its
wireless connectivity. What failed was the router’s four Ethernet
(wired network) interfaces.
[Read more at http://www.sidesofmarch.com/index.php/archive/2008/05/01/csfbl-serverconnectivity-issues/]
As you can tell, we're back now -- but due to the outage, I am not going to resume sims until Monday, May 5, 6:00 AM EST. This should give people time to catch up and word to get around that we're back online. The last sim to run was the noon sim on April 30.
I may take the CSFBL site and/or the forums down for periods over the weekend to do some continued maintenance -- trying to make the most out of this rare opportunity to clean house, so to speak.
We are looking in to new hosting solutions, which could bring some logistic changes to the game and the way some people play it. There's lots of options on the table, and we have to identify what's best for the continued success of the game.
- Brian
- Lead Developer/Designer
