Hogwarts Live Blog

One of the common questions about HogwartsLive is why it is so slow and why it costs so much to run. As a server administrator by trade I can tell you that most servers can handle a great number of sites without any problem. The "problem" is that HogwartsLive is just an incredibly popular site, with tons of you signing on every single day.

This is not a bad thing, we are very grateful that there are so many of you enjoying HogwartsLive, and look forward to growing even larger, and are constantly working to make HogwartsLive faster and more reliable so that we can handle the incredible growth rate.

This said I have an announcement to make, HogwartsLive has never ceased to amaze me in just how many pageviews it gets in an average month (last month in June we received an amazing 22,558,769 pageviews (that means that if you count the number of times a web page on Hogwartslive.com, not including wizards.pro or anything else in last month it was over 22 million times!). That said, the incredible growth of HogwartsLive has reached a new plateau, on July 11th, 2006, we received 1,332,402 pageviews in a single day, marking the first time in HogwartsLive history that we received over 1 million pageviews in a single day!

Thank you members of HogwartsLive for making this site as powerful, fun, and amazing as it is today, and I look forward to announcing the first 2 million pageview day.

My apologies for the excessive downtime on our Hogwarts Live wiki over at:
http://encyclopedia.wizards.pro

I was able to fix everything today, so have fun! Also, please notify me of any further errors regarding any Wizards.pro channel.

It has come to my attention that members of other Harry Potter roleplaying sites have been giving Hogwarts Live poor reviews on Alexa and other topsites due to typically extraneous features of the site such as layout, which in our particular case is optimized for performance (speed). Please do not engage in such juvenile activities with other Harry Potter sites as it is unbecoming of our users and reflects poorly on our community. We all love Harry Potter and should use that commonality to foster friendship rather than spiteful rivalry and discord. You may assist us in mitigating the sting of these biased ratings with your own subjective reviews of your experiences concerning this game. Thanks as always and sorry for the downtime today. I was on a road trip to Los Angeles, California; otherwise I would have caught it sooner.

You can review us on Amazon/Alexa via the link below:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=hogwartslive.com

This afternoon in a small but very lovely ceremony Barbara Garcia (SerenityRose) and Nicholas Moline (Edmund aka Me) were married. It was a very nice ceremony and we send sincere thanks to everyone who commented on molinefamily.info, we love receiving those wishes!

We are now about to go on our honeymoon, and as such both myself and her will not be around over the next several days.

Hey everyone, I'm happy to announce that I had a wonderful trip, and that I'm now back safe and sound at my parents house in New Mexico. Today, I have finished setting up of all our Network Sites and Wizards.pro channels. Unfortunately, because of this you may have experience a slight rollback of a few hours on your accounts. This means that all activity that transpired this morning is no more and you may start anew. Our other sites should be functional for everyone within the next 48 hours, depending on your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Greetings one and all, welcome to the new HogwartsLive server, this server has significantly more power but it is also running a different configuration, please be patient with any oddities you are experiencing today, I am working as best as I can to get the server fully operational and faster then ever.

First of all, I've just fixed the site as it seems that it was down for several hours today. I will be getting the new faster server operational this week, it should drastically reduce the liklihood of this happening again in the future.

In other, happier news, I wanted to take this opportunity to announce that I, Nicholas Moline (Edmund) will be marrying Barbara Garcia (SerenityRose) in real life on July 2nd (2 weeks from today). I'm not sure if anyone else who has met on hogwartslive has made it to the point of getting married or not, but even if we aren't the first (which I think we are) I still wanted to share my joy with all of you. Hogwartslive has litterally changed my life, bringing the love of my life to me.

If you would like to follow the progress of Barbara and I's upcoming wedding, you can visit the website we've created for it http://www.molinefamily.info/

I will be offline from Saturday, June 17th till Tuesday, June 29th due to longstanding plans to visit Haifa, Israel. Also, I will have limited access to the Internet from then till June 6th or 7th. This means I most presumably will not be able to answer your owls for that time period. Thank you for understanding. On a side note we will be transferring to a new, faster server in short time. We want you to know that we appreciate your contributions, either financial or creative, they all truly help to better this site.

Please remember to sign up and post on the suggestion forums:
http://harrypotter.wizards.pro/forums/roleplaying/suggestions

We will be resetting everyone's Hit Points next week, you will receive gems in exchange for them. Also, Edmund has implemented a cap on gym use after 10 Voldemort Encounters. This is in an effort to make the game more fair and overall more enjoyable. Thanks for understanding.

Some of you may of heard that we are preparing a German version of the game. Please owl me if you speak German and would like to help with the translating or testing of the new site.

http://de.hogwartslive.com