Hogwarts Live Blog

The staff (Alchemists & Aurors alike) do a lot!

Edmund helps me tons with server configuration and he walked me through the whole transfer of the data from one server to another. The other staff members also help me a lot with answering petitions, moderating the chat rooms, mediating conflicts, and in some cases assisting me with my homework. So, please don't criticize people who do their best when they're not even getting paid. Happy gaming everyone, and a happy Staff Appreciation Week! :)

Welcome everyone to the new and improved server. HogwartsLive and usharrypotter.com has been successfully moved to it's new home. We may still have more upgrades to come in the upcoming weeks to get it fully functional, but the server transfer itself is now complete.

I just purchased the new server.
It currently has these specs:

AMD Anthlon Processor
80 GB Disk space
1 GB of RAM
2 TB Monthly Transfer (Bandwidth)

The transfer will be initiated later on today.

The T-shirt design contest is still going on, check out the forums. Please note that I will tell you if I don't like your design or if I have ideas for making it better. If I don't reply it probably means I deleted it.

Thanks. :)

The great war between Light and Dark has come to a close. Peace shall reign throughout the magical world, that is until the next war...

Light points: 93346
Dark points: 36591

Okay, I'm settled down now at my apartment in a suburb of San Francisco, California that shall remain unnamed. I still don't have a computer, Internet access (I'm at school), a cell phone, or a car for that matter so bare with me. I will try and get the new server by the second week of August, during the first week though the site might be down for a couple of hours (or even days) to allow me ample time to transfer all the data from this server.

I am moving to San Francisco on Thursday (July 7). I am returning my modem to Comcast later on today, so I will not have Internet access until I get to a computer in San Francisco. I will not be on very often until I get my new Apple PowerMac G5 in the mail, which might take anywhere from 1-3 weeks. Also my apartment does not have Broadband or DSL yet, so you might not be able to get a hold of me for awhile. Don't worry about the new server I'm going to start making arrangements tomorrow; we should have it within the month.

In case you haven't already noticed, yesterday, I updated the Deputy Nomination thread with the people who we've picked to have a chance to become a deputy. Now we have come to a decision, the new Deputies will be Barrister Titan and God Asmith.
Titan was nominated and Asmith was the secret number 5 that me and Danilo voted for. There names will be changed shortly(tonight or tomorrow).

Also we are considering two people for Junior Auror positons. These people are Barrister iamtheriddle and Gladiator Basset.

Sorry to anyone who didn't get the position they wanted, better luck next time.

We are going to be purchasing another dedicated server to speed up Hogwarts Live. Currently I am looking at two options. The first is to get a really powerful machine for a similar price as the current one. The second is to get another server similar to this one and use it to store the databases while this one stores the files.

Sites that I am currently looking at include:
https://order.1and1.com/xml/order/ServerRoot;jsessionid=C864BC385AA0DAADA23CBDC08BBAEB1B.TC62b?__frame=_top&__lf=Order-Tariff
and
http://www.serverbeach.com/catalog/powerline.php?os=debian

The current server is running on an Intel P3 Processor, 1 Gig of RAM, 40 GB IDE Hard Drive with 2 Terabytes of bandwidth and the latest stable version of Debian Linux installed.

I suppose this day is to celebrate our victory over Britain, right? I won't get into my idea that no one can "win" a war right now, but I wanted to add this is also the Independence Day for the Philippines (I am half Filipino). In 1946 on July 4th, after 381 years of colonial rule the Philippines was granted full independence by the United States, which I am sorry to say, is in my opinion a bad decision on the United State's part. The Philippines is now one of the poorest countries in the world, with a very corrupt government, and a lower average annual salary than China. If you want to see other events that occurred on this day, check out this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_4