Scheduled service maintenance - September 22, 7:00 am UTC

[HanziQ]

On September 22, starting at 7:00 am UTC (9:00 am CEST, 12:00 am PDT, 3:00 am EDT, http://everytimezone.com/#2016-9-21,1140,cn3), lasting approximately 30-60 minutes, we will be conducting a database maintenance, resulting in the outage of the following services:

• Main website - factorio.com
• Authentication services
• Mod portal
• Public server browser
• Standalone game updater

The following services will not be affected:

• Factorio Forums
• Factorio Wiki

Thank you for understanding

[henke37]

So the forum and wiki run on a separate database then? Well, I am mere programmer, not a system admin.

[iamwyza]

So the forum and wiki run on a separate database then? Well, I am mere programmer, not a system admin.

This is not uncommon. This forum runs on PHPBB, so it's entirely likely it runs on it's own DB. The wiki also probably runs MediaWiki, which again is going to have it's own DB. I imagine the main site/mod portal/game server stuff is all in house/custom which would allow for a nice integrated DB.

[vanatteveldt]

Anybody sane keeps things as separate as possible to avoid e.g. a security problem on the forum software from causing problems in the game server and to allow maximum flexibility in setting up the in-house configuration. Also, off-the-shelf software for wiki's and fora often are easiest to run with mysql, which is not always the DB for choice for more heavy production usage.

[HanziQ]

Maintenance is now over.