Skyrim

Cluster move complete, a few bugs to fix

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We successfully completed the move of our databases over to a new centralised cluster yesterday with the final site, Fallout 3 Nexus, moved in the afternoon. Moving the databases off the same servers that actually serve the site’s pages has freed up resources on the servers that can go towards handling more concurrent connections and as such I’m hoping you’re finding the browsing experience on the sites this weekend, especially on Skyrim Nexus, are much more satisfactory.

There are currently a few known bugs on the sites that we’ll be working on sorting over the next week. You do not need to report these errors to us as we already know about them:

  • Problems with people either being unable to login or being unable to stay logged in through page loads. Generally what happens is you enter your username and password, click the submit button, the main page loads but you’re still not logged in. No error messages are shown. We’re not sure why this isn’t working for some people while it’s working for the majority but we’ll look in to fixing that first.
  • People have reported the file servers sometimes report themselves as being overloaded or “struggling” despite other people downloading the same file perfectly fine. Assumed that any NMM downloading errors are of a similar ilk for the same people (e.g. if manually downloading fails so does downloading through NMM).
  • Issues with the Image Share not posting images and linking to the correct forum topics.


If you’re experiencing a problem that’s not on that list then by all means report it.

While I’m very pleased that the cluster has worked out well I’m still not happy. I want to be in a position where there’s not one single point of failure for the sites so if a server goes down the sites still run perfectly. I also want to be in a position where increasing capacity is as simple as buying new servers. The old system wasn’t that simple, and I want a system that is that simple. Right now we’re serving about 700 concurrent connections/second to the sites (not the file servers, they do loads more than that) and we’re hitting that limit regularly. I want to be able to serve twice that much. We’ve spent over £33,000 ($50,000) on the database cluster and I’ve now outlayed a further £18,000 ($28,000) on several static content servers that will serve all the images and static pages and a further £40,000 ($61,000) on moving all our page serving in to a specially developed cloud server system utilising 48 CPU cores and 192GB or RAM across 6 virtual servers, load balanced by two extra virtual servers to ensure redundancy. On top of that we’ve got to continue paying the billls on the old servers until everything is moved over, so we’re essentially paying double the amount it normally costs to keep things going from a hardware standpoint. Don’t get me started on bandwidth or the file servers where we’ve got another 3 file servers on order at the moment. When you wonder where the Premium Membership money goes; this is where it goes.

I’m happy with how things have gone so far and I’m looking forward to a point where we can stop dealing with making the sites run properly and get on with making the sites better and expanding the network. Frankly, if I were to have another year like this current one I’d seriously consider throwing in the towel. So fingers very much crossed.

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  1. Dark0ne
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    Locking this topic now to ensure that bug reports are placed in the proper forum. If you'd like to file a bug report from now on please use the bug reports section on the forums (top right) or the Feedback and Suggestions forum.
  2. DeltaEon
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    Can't download -any- mods. Getting an error: "No file exists for this ID."
    1. Talonflight
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      same thing here
    2. darknaga1
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      And myself.
    3. BioGasmRs
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      same here
    4. kadehos
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      +1
    5. IVmM7
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      yup
    6. Hevy
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      +1
    7. Akubunak
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      Add me to that list as well
    8. riaz050902
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      Same here.
    9. hayabusa1717
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      Tack on one more sufferer.
    10. chrisbenso
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      mmhm
    11. Pigbear
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      That is one the list.
    12. Doorhangler
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      Same.
    13. Furioushdchaos
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      Same here
    14. Samesies
    15. JoeyofSweden
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      Same thing here..
    16. edgarponce
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      Same
    17. dobmc
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      Getting digit errors and "file is not published" warnings...? I hope this is a solved issue in the near future.
  3. kleghmer
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    My NMM keeps crashing on startup "NMM Has stopped working Windows is looking for a solution" But
    But no solution and already reinstalled it.
  4. Ironman5000
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    @Everyone: You must understand that the site is going throuh some difficult growing pains right now and your patience would help a whole lot - the tech guys at the nexus have made a huge step to support the massive demand the sites have received through playing around with the servers and ultimately a few bugs have creeped through which have caused a significant disturbance with several features and ARE being fixed. I know that the team are working their fingers to the bone to get things back on track, and they are fully capable, so all we have to do is sit tight and give them a chance to get things running smoothly once again.

    And also as was stated in OP, keep your bug reports to the relevant forum here instead of flooding this thread with issues, simply because this isn't where they check to see what needs maintenance. Sure this thread started by Dark0ne but it was made JUST for YOUR information and any issues need to be submitted officially.
    1. Ajores
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      +1 to this. I get that people are having issues (I'm having them too) but it's kinda rude to harass Dark0ne's official post like this. Gotta go through the proper channels, and then this is what I would suggest: trust that they really mean it when they say they are working on the issues and wait.

      And I really mean it when I say: I'm really glad you haven't thrown the towel in Dark0ne! Love the Nexus, love the changes, can't wait to see where it's going
    2. ewi65
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      well said Ironman
    3. GardevoirPKMN
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      Three cheers for Nexus. Their job seems like one hell of an arduous task.
  5. flpsnk
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    I can't open Nexus Mod Manager Installer exe file when I download it. When I doubleclik it nothing happens, same with opening as admin. Zero respond. 0. Any1 knows how to solve this?
  6. hypno88
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    Unable to get past the first page when uploading a new file. Keep getting the error: "No ID was supplied for this action"

    - Hypno
  7. knightspk2
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    Downloads are working again!
  8. ah0v0
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    ...CANT DOWNLOAD ANYTHING...
  9. RolandRedJack
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    %2FError%2F%3Ferr%3Dfile_exist I am getting this on every file i download from both FO and FONV nexus.. help?
  10. SS2394161
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    Not sure if the servers are just busy or its a problem having to do with this major move, I know sometimes any of the nexus sites just have periods when to many people are downloading to many files but for the last 2 hours i've been trying to download mods for fallout 3 and I just keep getting the same message in the NMM that the file doesn't exist, same basic thing happens if i try a manual download too.
    I would chalk it up to busy servers but usually after about 10-20 minutes I was able to download the mods normally, as I said i've been trying for 2 hours now. I'm patient and can wait to get everything I just would like some insight as to what might be the problem. If thats not to much to ask of anyone.
    1. CrispyIV
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      You are not alone, I am having the same problem with NMM. This is likely because they're not be completely done moving/working on the servers. I've tested NMM with Skyrim mods and it worked fine but with Oblivion I get the error message you stated above. It only makes sense that they prioritize the Skyrim mod database to be online first because it is the most active at the moment. I would just wait until tomorrow and try again so they can sort out all of the remaining issue they may be having with their servers.