Steve Bird
Come On Williams!
I'm still unable to log in. Is it me or are the rest of you having the same issue?
They replace the whole backend...chezzzz power to them. I mean try to do it live. I would never do it. There is no way around it when you update live, to me it's better to have 2 farm, the old one and new one with database sync; and just do a switch over than to do the roll out on the same farm. That how I design my infrastructure I have a test / development / production & production 2. If it does not work, just flip back to the old one.
iRacing staff like to be under pressure, now it's a pressure cooker with that many people waiting for them. I see from Steve Myers twitter account they try to solve it live, rollback is not an option anymore. (at least to me, they tried new fix) I do appreciate their hard work, but there in a long night or day depend on your time zone.
It sucks but it's a pretty big update.
Update: Our team has been at it all day and night, working to get the servers and new build up and running. We don't have an eta at this point. Several people will continue to work overnight and the rest will come back early in the morning our time. We are really sorry for the extended down time and appreciate your patience while we get iRacing back up and running.
We hope to be able to report some progress in the morning. While you wait you can use this link to complete the new download:http://members.iracing.com/download
I'm always astonished over how game companies run their business.I would never do it
Steve Myers @iRacingMyers 6h6 hours ago
Handful of guys continuing to work to get new site going - rest will wake up early and start porting code back to old site to get it back
I'm always astonished over how game companies run their business.
QA seems to be quite loose, development plans seem to not be written out beforehand, backends running on machines not able to hold all players at once...
But guess there are just parts in the game development IT that don't get lots of love and budget.