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11th October 2019

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Thank you to everyone for their patience the past week or so. As you probably noticed, Marapets had over a week of loading problems, which caused a lot of weird glitches. Several of our hard disks broke at the same time and the disks they fail over to were not as fast as we're used to. To avoid any problems we've had in the past, we closed right away and tried our best to find the best long term solution and install/prepare everything in 48 hours. It took nearly 69 hours but I had to have some sleep ha!

We had plans to move away from all of our last remaining SATA disks (even at 15K RPM they are still so much slower and less reliable than SSD) but they were only here as back up.The plan was to move all of our servers from Canada to the UK in 2020 and replace it then once our Canada lease was up. Last week changed all of this, as we needed Marapets fixed ASAP. We've now extended the lease in Canada for another 24 months and completed all of the upgrades we had planned for 2020 in Canada. Marapets has been hosted in North America for the past 15 years because the majority of players are from there and it meant a faster site for those players. These days, with Cloudflare and fibre connections, it makes very little difference and is more of a hassle to have everything so far away from us.

Don't worry if that made no sense to you, all that matters is that a) we have new hardware and software now and hopefully we'll be good now for many years and b) it was a total success and we should be running the best we ever had.

We will start our Halloween events as planned shortly. Those who changed their pets to Midnight for free training should keep them midnight - midnight is a halloween theme costume and it will be included in Halloween free training.

The Basil, Paffuto, Reese and Tantua can now wear the Thunder Costume.



The Double or Nothing game has been updated with brand new artwork.


@Ian thank you so much for everything. ive been part of mara for more than 12 years. keep up the good work and congrats on a job well done.. im an adult player (lol.. nearly pensioner )
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Jigsaw75
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truly, thank you so much for everything you've done for mara and all the effort and long days you put into it. it'll be something i'll most likely enjoy until the end of my (or it's) days!
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@xixViperxix we had SSD before, for many years. back when they were VERY VERY expensive

the issue was that it died and mara didn't go down, it failed over to SATA disks we had as backup. hence the lag AND glitches haha

now they're much much cheaper and bigger, so we replaced everything, even the backup and failovers to them.

We had planned to do this in 2020, the reason we couldn't do it earlier was because "if it aint broke dont fix it" kind of thing and they literally don't even sell the original versions anymore, so it was a case of not being able to just change one or 2, would need to change all of them. and there was a lot to change haha

it really was just bad luck that it broke before we moved next year but its all good now :D
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yes that makes a lot of sense. So with the new lease in place then everything stays in Canada still. Will you be moving it all back to the UK when the lease runs out or just a wait and see.
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@ian serious about giving pro bono irl help if ever needed :D
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@xixViperxix a lot can change in 24 months but yeah lol
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you change the hardware/software every few months, even when you claim it'll "run for years".....your jargon may fool others but not me. I give it within 6 months when it'll change again
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Thank you soooo much Ian :)
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that was super quick, good work Ian and team you guys rock :)
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@Ian Thanks a ton Ian, you really are doing a great job
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Meggy75
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I may not understand all of the technical talk, but running a website is stressful. Thank you for your hard work. I know taking down Mara is probably one of the last things you want to do for any extended period of time, but no matter the downtime, I'll always be back... Especially when there's always such nice new content being released and updated. (I love the updated Double or Nothing artwork!)

I hope you're able to get at least some genuine rest between all of the unscheduled maintenance and the upcoming Maraween events. You deserve it!
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Ty Ian for the heads up .Enjoy,your well deserved sleep :like:
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Cygnet75
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Glad everything turned out well. Thank you for making Marapets the best pet-themed game online.
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