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Power's Edge Announcement: Migration to new servers
Date:Thu, 06 Nov 2003 18:43:41 +0000

Announcement from the Moderator to All Leaders:

We are still experiencing intermittent data-loss / file corruption
problems at the current ISP hosting Power's Edge. The problem is not
in any of the Power's Edge code; it may be in the Python language or
the Linux server at the ISP, but the problem is not reproducible and
we have not been able to track anything down. 

The latest corrupted file has been fixed, so inputs should go through
again now,
and we will still update on Saturday if there's no more trouble. 

Although there are some items left to be resolved, the server we are
using for the Development Zone appears to work just fine, so we are
going to proceed with moving all of Power's Edge over to the new
server.  Power's Edge will be reborn in a new home,
http://www.powersedge.net/ , and a few things will work a little
differently (mainly email sent out from the web server through the CGI
interface), but at least it shouldn't crash every week due to a data
loss crisis!

We will keep the old version afloat until the migration is ready to go
through.  As a bonus, we have a brand-new computer to do the turn
updates as well.  The added speed should allow us to support more
games with more nations, and also better maps.

Once we finish these migrations and have everything working reliably
again, we'll get back to the fun business of improving the game engine
and adding new features.

-- Power's Edge, http://www.heeter.net/pe/

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