Hogwarts Live BlogAll dwellings have been removed, and before you ask about getting your gold and gems back from your dwellings, I should point out that your gold in bank, gold in hand, gems, and clan vaults have all also been reset.
The Marriage system will be back here shortly (one of the first things I'll...
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Missing Modules - Update
Site Slowness
Believe it or not, the recent slowness this week is not related to any hardware or software problems on the server. From what I can tell the network block that the server is a part of has been under constant attack for the last several days. At this moment I do not believe that the HogwartsLive...
Belated Congratulations
I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas, or whatever other holiday you celebrate. A belated congratulations to Poizun Acerbity who won the Hill of Beans Candy raffle and won an amazing 23,685 bertie botts beans!
Hill of Beans Raffle!
Ok, sorry about the few hours of downtime today, you probably won't believe it, but it wasn't a database problem this time.
The server upgraded itself last night and for some reason when the normal cleanup scripts were run, php broke on re-entry!
The site is up now, and I've...
The Candy Raffles are back!
We are less than a month away from the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on DVD and HogwartsLive, Wizards.FM, and Wizards.Pro are giving away a copy of the two disk special edition. The Candy Raffle is open in Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, come trade in your Bertie Botts beans for...
Live Chat
Live Chat is now back, it was temporarily disabled as an exercise because some people were suggesting that the slowness of the site was a direct result of the live chat module, by disabling live chat, that theory was proven wrong (as I knew it would)
Also, a reminder of the way things have been...
Partial Data Reset and Last Call
Before we get a bunch of petitions complaining, we have partially reset the module_userprefs table again, this time on purpose and with some exceptions.
Your alignment, fairydragons, horcruxes, phoenixes, and bertie botts beans should be intact, other settings that use the module_userprefs table...
Voice your Opinion and be Heard!
Tomorrow the Wizards.FM panel will sit down and record a discussion about Deathly Hallows, what we liked, what we didn't like, what we are still confused about, a general conversation about Deathly Hallows and we want your help!
Email your opinions and reviews of Deathly Hallows to...
Preventative shutdown tonight
The worst crashes all appear to happen at night (I know the crashes during the day seem very bad, but the crashes at night usually require someone at the colocation facility to physically restart the machine, very bad), as such we will be shutting down the site tonight and leaving it off overnight....
Sometimes we have to slow down in order to speed up
I've removed all accelerator functionality from the php installation in hopes that if the server itself isn't running quite so fast it won't crash as often until I can fix a permanent solution. I shall be spending my birthday weekend (happy birthday to me) this weekend trying to...
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