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Part seven: Migrating MrWhite (2 of 2) 12 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
It took us a few months to find some time again in our busy schedules to continue the migration of MrWhite. Yesterday we finally managed to free up some time and continue to work on the migration. As...
Downtime announcement 7 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
Upcoming Sunday, 11th of August, we'll (finally :P) continue working on MrWhite's migration to the new SSD drive/ Virtual machine. As we need to copy over the current website content, databases etc. w...
Mumble 1.2.4 15 Jun 2013 | 08:20 pm
Today we've updated the Mumble server to release 1.2.4. For a full version of the changelog please visit the Mumble website. The mayor highlights of this update are: Opus is now the primary audio c...
Win a copy of Red Orchestra 2 Rising storm, play some MC 7 Jun 2013 | 05:02 pm
As announced on our forums, we'll be giving away 4 copies of Red Orchestra 2: Rising storm to the 4 winners of the Minecraft UHC competitions. UHC is a gamemode made popular my the mindcrack communit...
Part six: Migrating MrWhite (1 of 2) 3 Jun 2013 | 05:38 pm
Unfortunately we did not succeed yet in completing our migration of MrWhite. Primarily this is because the amount of work turned out to be more than we anticipated. We don’t want to rush things so we ...
Part five: Introducing the VM’s 31 May 2013 | 02:16 pm
When we created SpA we got ourselves 2 machines. As it’s a good tradition in the IT business to name your machines. We've chosen to name our machines after characters from the film “reservoir dogs”. ...
Part four: Why VMware? 30 May 2013 | 07:25 pm
As written earlier, one of the main reasons why we chose to use VMware to virtualize our machines is that we can give each game its own OS/platform which allows for easier access/privilege management ...
Part three: The datacenter trips (2 of 2) 29 May 2013 | 07:02 pm
The new SSD had arrived so it was time for our second trip to the datacenter. Armed with an external USB backup drive and the new SSD we went on our way. As we had setup the MrBlonde VM with so calle...
Part two: The datacenter trips (1 of 2) 28 May 2013 | 11:57 pm
We’ve split the upgrade process in 2 parts. The first time we went to the datacenter we installed a temporary 80GB Intel X25 SSD drive in MrWhite and installed VMware ESXi 5.1 on it. The previous nigh...
Part one: Rebuilding the servers 28 May 2013 | 12:54 am
The first part we’ve looked at to make our community future-proof was our server hardware and its setup. Previously we had 2 machines, MrWhite, running VMware 4 and MrBlonde running Linux Debian 6. On...
