Author Archives: Ryan

Database cleanup

February 7, 2012 – 19:41

Weewar is back online, but I need to take it down for a few minutes to backup the database and clear out old games that are clogging up the server and Zapp’s cycles. We’ll be back shortly. Game timers will be reset upon return. And we’re back. I deleted 24,000 games that were old and [...]

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Temporarily down again

January 9, 2012 – 19:24

Weewar is down again due to another database issue. We’re aware of the problem and are working to solve it. Please bear with us. 2:06pm EST: And we’re back!

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Outage Today

December 15, 2011 – 18:34

We are experiencing some database issues today and are working to resolve them. Please bear with us. Monday: We’re back online! Thanks to Aaron at EA for resolving the issue. I’ve reset all of the game timers.

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Downtime to fight spam

September 10, 2011 – 19:44

Weewar will be taken offline at 2pm EST (UTC-4) tomorrow (Sunday) for a spam-fighting update. See it in your time. Update 2:03pm: We’re back. Players who have not yet ended their turn in a game are no longer allowed to post in the forums. This should help reduce the wave of forum spam we have [...]

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New downtime

August 19, 2011 – 07:16

Weewar is experiencing some memory problems, causing the server to go down spontaneously over the last couple days. We’re looking into it. Update Aug. 21, 12:28am: We are still having server issues. Zapp will be turned off while we try to figure out the cause of the memory problems. Update Aug. 22, 2:51am UTC-4: Server [...]

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Downtime

July 12, 2011 – 01:13

Weewar is currently experiencing some issues with its Amazon servers. Please bear with us as we work to address the problems. Update (July 12, 20:16 EST): We are back up and running though Weewar is a bit slow. The Amazon server on which Weewar was hosted seemed to have stalled, so we had to start [...]

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Facebook Connect downtime

May 18, 2011 – 19:41

We have temporarily removed Facebook Connect from Weewar as we sort out some issues regarding it. If you normally log in using Facebook Connect and did not have a Weewar password set, please send us a message on the contact page and we will get back to you with a temporary Weewar password. We’re sorry [...]

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Maintenance

December 15, 2010 – 21:13

As some of you have noticed, Weewar is being a bit slow these past couple days. We’re looking into the cause and will be doing quick maintenance today at 4pm EST (UTC-5). See it in your time. Update 4:05pm: We’re back up and will be monitoring Weewar for slowness issues closely.

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Bug fix update

December 10, 2010 – 18:54

Weewar will go down briefly on Sunday, December 11, 2010 – at 8PM EST to fix a bug regarding invites to new players. See it in your time. This was originally for Saturday, December 10 at 10PM EST but has been rescheduled.

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Minor update

December 6, 2010 – 06:05

Weewar will go down for a few minutes at 10pm EST today for a security update. See it in your time zone. Update 10:15pm: And we’re back!

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