UPDATE 11:25 UTC - Work was completed ahead of schedule and Tranquility is back online and accepting connections! Please enjoy your internet spaceships.
There will be an extended downtime on Thursday 21 October while we conduct some upgrades and testing on our database hardware. Downtime is expected to last until 11:45 UTC however we will be back up sooner if work is completed early.
We’ll keep you updated in this thread and on the EVE Status Twitter account.
I WANNA SEE THAT HARDWARE hows about some behind the scenes … what runs eve ? what kind of hardware was in there ? what are you installing ? we wanna know more
Well for those that are truly interested CCP has continued to upgrade the Hardware on Tranquility. (And no I do not work for CCP and I am not a CCP fan but I do like Eve and have seen many changes since 2003 when I first started playing). If you try and search online you will see some of these changes.
Here are a few links from different sources.
From Oct 2015-eveonline.c0m/news/view/tranquility-tech-3
From April 2016-evenews24.c0m/2016/04/02/tranquilities-many-upgrades/