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Welcome to Aelyria |
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Aelyria is the original play by post creative experience on the Internet. Thousands of writers, artists, musicians, and gamers play by posting stories over our message forums and bulletin boards, immersing themselves in our unique fantasy world. Founded in 1989, Aelyria features collaborative storytelling where players assume the roles of heroes and villains as they explore, quest, and adventure in an epic faerie tale of magic, romance, mystery, and intrigue. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other, players form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with foes for power and glory across a vast landscape dotted by ruined castles and thriving cities, plagued by monsters and brigands, shaped by spellcraft and the gods, and plunged into political intrigue.
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 [Tech] System Maintenance on March 6, 2010 |
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Mar 04, 2010 - 8:40 PM - by Kaelon
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The Cloud's engineering team will be performing several upgrades to the Aelyria infrastructure in the Dallas / Fort Worth, TX ("DFW") data center to enhance stability and performance. The maintenance is scheduled to last two (2) hours, beginning on the morning of March 6 at 12:00 AM CST and ending at 2:00 AM CST. While connectivity to Aelyria during this window will be intermittent, at some times Aelyria may appear to be offline. As always, the Cloud will do everything to keep interruptions to an absolute minimum.
During this maintenance window, engineering will be performing a series of software upgrades and disk space additions to our storage array to increase capacity, stability, and scalability. These upgrades will also allow us to further optimize our storage array's performance, equating to faster data load times for Aelyria applications and better stability. During the maintenance period, users may be unable to access, upload, or make changes to... [Read More]
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 [Community] Help Haiti Now |
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Jan 20, 2010 - 1:55 PM - by Kaelon
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Seven days ago, a massive 7.1 earthquake struck a few miles away from Port-au-Prince, the capital of grief-stricken Haiti. Hundreds of thousands are feared dead, the entire capital city is in ruins, and Haiti has been destroyed. Since that terrible tragedy and yesterday's recurring 6-level tremor, so many of you have been sharing the generous and loving spirit that all Aelyrians share in common and asking for us to coordinate a way to get relief to the people of Haiti. After some research, I have decided to link prominently to the Network for Good, which offers a one-stop portal for reputable charities that are dealing with the crisis in Haiti.
There are very few places in our world that suffer as much as Haiti; as the poorest country in the western hemisphere who has seen civil war, dictatorship, famine, and extreme poverty, the current earthquake has killed more than an estimated 200,000 people and... [Read More]
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[Tech] Cloud Issues this Evening |
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Jan 16, 2010 - 9:56 PM - by Kaelon
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We have been made aware of some issues apparently affecting The Cloud, specifically, the Cloud's Database servers, and are currently investigating the issues with Cloud technical staff. We will provide updates as they become available.
Update: The Database Cluster used by Aelyria on The Cloud was corrupted by another customer at approximately 8:00 pm Eastern Time. Cloud technicians repaired the error caused at around 11:00 pm, and I performed a simple repair of our on-site database at approximately 11:10 pm. Users may notice inaccurate/incorrect "Last Post / Last Thread" information, but this information will slowly be brought back up-to-date as users resume posting. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
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 [Community] Happy New Year and Welcome 2010! |
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Dec 31, 2009 - 2:07 PM - by Kaelon
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On behalf of the Aelyria Community, I would like to wish all Aelyria members a safe and wonderful Happy New Year! Whether you are celebrating with friends and family tonight, going into town to watch fireworks, or attending a party, we hope that you will find happiness and comfort in the majesty of the passing of another glorious year. May 2010 bring new great opportunities and tremendous prosperity for all of us, and may it especially inspire and enlighten our creative energies and imaginative impulses to weave new fantastic stories and adventures in which we can all partake! Happy New Year!
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[Community] Happy Holidays from Aelyria! |
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Dec 25, 2009 - 12:38 PM - by Kaelon
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On behalf of Aelyria, I would like to wish all of our community members a safe and happy Holiday Season! For those who have finished celebrating a Happy Hanukkah, are enjoying a Merry Christmas, are looking forward to a Sacred Ashura or Happy Kwanzaa, or are just coming off of a most splendid Winter Solstice, I hope that your Holiday Season is filled with the joy and comfort of your loved ones. For those of you adventuring with us in Aelyria during these magical times, be certain to check out the Winter of Miracles and related festivities!
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 [Site] Aelyria Site Update 3.1.2 |
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Dec 18, 2009 - 7:53 PM - by Kaelon
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The Aelyria Web Site and our software has been steadily upgraded over the past few weeks since moving to The Cloud, and I am now thrilled to unveil Site Update 3.1.2. These enhancements to features and functionality on our web site continue to set the foundation for us to prepare a better organization of our materials to provide our end-users with a cleaner, more stream-lined experience. Some components, like our navigation buttons and iconography, will continue to undergo stylistic changes as we tinker with better and more proven methods of user experience improvements. However, you should consider this patch a first step for some solid improvements to the end-user experience.
New Front Page!
(Visit it Here.)
After moving to the Cloud, our old frontpage technology had a vulnerability which... [Read More]
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[Tech] Cloud Issues 4:45 pm ET |
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Dec 18, 2009 - 5:20 PM - by Kaelon
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The Cloud went offline at approximately 4:45 pm Eastern Time. Hundreds of thousands of websites across the Internet were pulled offline, including Aelyria. Network engineers from the Rackspace Cloud, which manages the Cloud's datacenter in Dallas Fort Worth, traced the problem to a networking/connectivity issue. Connectivity was restored within 20 minutes. We informed users via our Facebook page, which cross-posted to our Twitter page, and we were being given live blog updates from Mosso. All services should be functioning normally once more. Thanks for your understanding for these issues which were beyond our control and affected a huge segment of the Internet.
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[Site] Site Improvements |
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Dec 17, 2009 - 3:17 PM - by Kaelon
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Serale, Aelyrians,
I will be temporarily disabling access to Aelyria in about fifteen minutes to perform a brief (about 5-10 minute) upgrade on some of our software. This is designed to implement technology to launch our new front-page. Total downtime should be no more than ten minutes. I just wanted to let you know. If you are posting, this is a good opportunity to save your work using an external text editor or word processor.
Thanks for your patience and understanding!
Juan
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 [Community] Charlie Wallace returns as Leader |
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Nov 23, 2009 - 9:08 AM - by Kaelon
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Serale, Aelyrians,
Before the site-crash on Friday, I had posted this announcement, so I am delighted to re-post it again.
After consulting with the Directors and our Leaders, I am pleased to announce that long-time Aelyrian Charlie Wallace has offered to return to assist the Leadership Team and serve as a Leader for our community! As many of you know, Charlie has been helping run Aelyria in one form or another since before 1999, and his return will enable the Leadership Team to continue focusing on growing our userbase, making Aelyria more fun and accessible to larger audiences, and leading us past our Twentieth Anniversary into the next phase of our future. Since taking a hiatus from serving as Leader earlier this year, Charlie has been focused on reconnecting with our players as a determined and focused Game Master, something which he will continue to focus on. We are excited to have him back as a Leader!
Please join me in welcoming back... [Read More]
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[Tech] The Crash of 2009 |
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Nov 22, 2009 - 9:28 PM - by Kaelon
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Serale, Aelyrians,
On Friday afternoon, November 20, 2009, at approximately 6:30 pm Eastern Time, the Aelyria Server began to exhibit strange a significant slow-down. The site had to be rebooted several times by our data center engineers, until it was discovered that a firewall problem was initially preventing a number of our users from connecting. The problems continued to escalate until at about 8:45 pm Eastern Time, the Aelyria Server's database crashed. One of the engineers had attempted to perform an optimization of our database while it was still live and dozens of users were connected and posting; this caused a corruption in the database that led to a general system crash.
My immediate concern was repairing our database and recovering all lost data. At that time, I disabled public access to Aelyria (such as it was) in order to perform a repair and optimization of our 5 Gb database; this process lasted over 12 hours, and was ultimately unsuccessful... [Read More]
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