Extended Downtime Notification - 21 October, 2026

EVE Information Portal Announcements
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Hello gamers!

On Wednesday, 21 October, we will be having an extended downtime for an estimated one hour, running from 11:00 UTC to 12:00 UTC.

For those, like me, who aren’t extremely technically savvy: some of our hamsters are being relocated, and we need time to settle them in and make sure they’re happy in their new homes.

For a deeper look, we’ll be moving some of our production databases to a new DB cluster running SQL 2025.

As a result, Tranquility will be down while we do the migration, with some VIP time for comprehensive validation to ensure everything is running smoothly. Web services, the EVE store, and ESI may be affected during this period as well.

We’ll have updates here and EVE Status on the day.

Thank you!

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comprehensive validation? oooh someone is using the BIG words

hope all goes well

set up a long skill queue

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Advance warning before the fact. How novel. Good to know. This will be pushed to the launcher as well when it takes place, right?

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…remembers when DT was always an hour…

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Yeah, it’ll appear at the top of a launcher as we usually do for extended downtimes with a reference to this very thread! (and hopefully we’ll be done sooner)

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Sometimes even deleting boot.ini!

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The good old times. :joy:

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WIll you set the db compatibility level to SQL Server 2025 too? :nerd_face:
…or leave it at 80? :clown_face:

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DB compatibility at 80
AD Functional level is set to Server 2000

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…remembers when a simple patch killed the boot.ini of EVERY pc involved…that was fun…

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t’was boot.ini… as has been pointed out earlier.

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And in what form does this make anything better? :slight_smile: But i changed it, just for your calmness…i just do not understand why you are even mentioning it…

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Don’t accidentally delete your db, brothers!

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Does “production” mean manufacturing, research or PI databases? Just asking so that we will know which areas of the game to check to make sure everything is working and all hamsters are happy afterwards. Or does it mean something else?

Moving 2025 SQueeLy hamsters… good luck! :laughing:

PS - Are you helping with the move @CCP_Swift ? If yes, then other devs please keep him away from the character names database… some “FC” names might change back to “CCP” :rofl: Just joking.

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“Production” in the context of servers, means the database we are all using with all the live data (i.e. not the test server or development server).

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Thank you for explaining. I learned something new and appreciate it. :+1: