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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: June 10, 2012

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THE CLOUD MOVE: UPDATE

by Hazed

And so to the main news of the week. Alan spent his five-day break slaving away setting up the new, virtual server in the cloud and by the end of the long weekend he had a version of the game running with real data taken from the live game. Contrary to our expectations, he didn’t need to take the game down in order to make the backups.

However, when I told you in a previous edition of the Star that the switchover would happen last weekend, I should have known things would take longer than anticipated. Alan decided to delay the final change to the new cloud version until he had sorted out moving the website across. He’s getting someone who is an expert in Apache (that’s the website server software) because it’s important that all the security settings for the website are correct - holes in the web server security are responsible for more security breaches than any other software.

So maybe the move will happen next weekend - no promises, though. Watch the board in the game for details, and I’ll have an update in next week’s Star.


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