Morrowind

Changes to the file servers

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Over the course of the next week the file servers across all the Nexus sites will be coming offline one at a time so upgrades can be made. The fundamental way in which the file servers operate will also be changing.

At the moment each Nexus site has its own file server(s); two for TESNexus, one for Fallout 3 Nexus and one for Dragon Age Nexus. Once the upgrades to the file servers have been made all four file servers will be used by all three Nexus sites, balancing out the bandwidth and load available across each site on four servers.

As each server is upgraded all the files will need to be restored from the backups on the other servers. About 400GB of files which takes about 24 hours. At this time file server #1 at TESNexus is down while the files are restored from all the other file servers. Once file server #1 is fully operational, file server #2 and the Fallout 3 Nexus file server will be taken offline while upgrades are performed and files are transferred and finally the Dragon Age Nexus file server will be upgraded after those two are finished. Naturally during this period the servers are going to be overloaded as users from both TESNexus and FO3Nexus are crammed on to one file server for a day so please bare with me while these changes are made.

As file downloads for premium members are now served directly from the webservers themselves premium members will not be affected by this change if they use the premium only server. Queue conspiracy theories!

Once these changes are made the speed cap for file downloads will be doubled from 150kb/sec to 300kb/sec.

Thank you for your patience during this period.

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  1. stevico
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    ..March now & I'm still having the same problem as imagelesskink & jeron12.. works fine in IE, download page not working in firefox though - white background, no link... I'll bet we're not the only ones having the same issue either - conspiracy no.1 accounted for...
  2. Thrallking
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    Dark0ne, I presume you've heard this, but good job with the pictures. I really like the new format, it is much better than the old one.

    Thank you for all you've done. My ONLY site for mods is Nexus.

    Rance


    Editted for spelling errors
  3. Jeron12
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    On tesnexus, every file. All of them, every single one I've tried.


    Seem to be having the same problem. Have not been able to download for the past 3 days, which is very frustrating. Help?
  4. JanesSignal
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    Have you guys considered using a Content Delivery Network?
  5. FelixG0D
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    Well nevermind, I left for work and here and now the site worked just fine. Downloaded what I needed... whatever you guys fixed it worked lol. Thankies. <3
  6. FelixG0D
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    Love the idea of an upgrade but I only get internet a very limited amount of time which is to say... now. Can't get to the site! Gonna die over here. x.x Lol Tried it in Firefox and it won't work, then tried IE and still no good. I can't even get to the main site, or typing in a download link, just nothing seems to work. Helppp! XD
  7. imagelesskink
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    Odd... It's only doing that to firefox. In firefox the downloads page renders with a white background and won't download, but when I tried in IETab it worked just fine.
  8. Dark0ne
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    Do you have javascript and/or cookies disabled in your browser, either through software or in the browser itself? You need both to download from the site. I can confirm the file downloads are working fine from here.
  9. imagelesskink
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    On tesnexus, every file. All of them, every single one I've tried.
  10. Dark0ne
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    For what site on what file(s)?