As we mentioned in the previous post, ever since the Steam launch we’ve been busy working on getting new hosting. Over the last week we’ve finally received all the paperwork and hardware accesses to start the process:

On June 16th (Monday), starting at 10:00 we’ll start the migration from our old servers in Budapest to a large datacenter in Amsterdam operated by Internap.

Internap certainly has a track record in gaming hosting, so this will hopefully lower the on-terrain latency – Amsterdam is one of the major hubs of Transatlantic networking, so players from Europe and America should notice a much more stable connection. Internap also cooked up various solutions to continually adapt networks, so in short we’re having high hopes for this.

Now, a few words about the migration itself: During the period of moving, which we estimate to be around 3-4 hours (but you know how it is), all services will be down – game, web, email, IRC, everything. Some of this delay is inevitable (DNS propagation) and services will come back asynchronously: we’ll try to get the game back up as fast as we can – most services are already running and working fine, we just need to synchronize some files and databases.

It’s probably your best bet to follow us on Twitter or Facebook to follow our migration progress.

Wish us luck.