Hogwarts Live Blog

Again, I'd like to apologize for the continued problems regarding accessing the game and loss of character data. I'll try to keep closer tabs on the site to make sure it doesn't go down for as long as it did the other day. Thanks for everyone's consideration, hopefully the server issues will be sorted out and we can all go back to enjoying the game, and maybe introduce some new fun stuff, instead of praying that the site doesn't crash.

The following people have each won 20,000 points via the Candy Raffle:

Fourthyeargirl Watsonne (Ticket 4484)
Goddess DarkFairyNenI (Ticket 3565)
!TehMostLurvely WitchyWoman (Ticket 131)
King Tom (Ticket 5288)
Archtitaness Sweetdemon (Ticket 6031)
Overlord LeoWyatt (Ticket 4838)
Isian Priestess Yaris (Ticket 2147)
KissMeQuick HazelnuttKookie (Ticket 2458)
Fourthyeargirl SHUTURFACEFOREVER (Ticket 7819)
Sorceror Shalak (Ticket 5219)

If your points were not properly added please let me know.

Thanks. ^^

I'd like to take this time to wish Alchemist Edmund (Nick) a very Happy Birthday! Please don't forget to thank him for all the hard work he does for the site (like keeping it alive, fixing it when it's dead, etc.). :)

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. We can keep a closer eye on the crashes during the day (when our eyes are open to keep on them).

I will be shutting hogwartslive down to prevent system failure tonight at 10:30 pacific time, and launch it back up tomorrow morning as early as possible.

I apologize for the inconvenience, but it is better then having more data loss.

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 reinstall everything and see if it solves the issue permanently, in the mean time, hopefully with the accelerators off the site may run slightly slower but may not crash, I hope.

I will restore what I can of deleted accounts on Sunday, so please bear with us until then. Thank you for your continued patience.

All User Preferences were reset again. This includes Friends, Squires, Pets, Alignment, Charm Display, Player Kills, the ability to reset PvP opt out option until after your next ve, Default Commentary Colors and possibly other assorted small things that I can't remember right now. EDIT: This also includes Special Skills, Lumberyard Stats and Quarry (stone) stats.

I do not know any other details at the moment but as soon as I find out, I will post another announcement.

Please do not petition asking for an stats to be restored as they won't be.

This is for the new players, for those of you who already know please bear with me. Someone with a & in front of their name is a moderator. Someone with a @ in front of their name is either a Senior Moderator or Junior Admin. Someone with a ! in front of their name is an Admin or higher. This site is ran by !Headmaster Danilo.

Donator Points!
Beans per Ticket: 20
A lot of people have lost things they have purchased with donator points in the recent server crashes, here is a way to get some donator points back, enter the latest donator points raffle. 10 lucky winners will each win donator points equal to 10 times the number of tickets purchased in this raffle up to a maximum of 20,000 donator points. If 1000 tickets are sold, each of the 10 winners will win 10,000 donator points. If 2000 or more tickets are sold, each lucky winner will win 20,000 donator points! So enter now, enter often, and win your donator points!
Raffle Runs From 2007-08-06 to 2007-08-13
There are 6 days, 23 hours, 3 minutes and 56 seconds left to purchase tickets in this raffle.

For those had a Black Cat or a Killer Bunny as pets, we have put them back in the pet shop for one (1) week. They will return to their Special Pet status on Monday, August 13 and will no longer be available for purchase.