I'm sure many of you will be interested in the state of play regarding

Avalon's crash of two weeks ago, and any residual problems from it.

The crash was due to a total hardware failure of our servers in

DC. These servers are provided for us and managed by independent

net providers in the area. Backups of the system are performed by them,

as part of our contract with them. Reliability of the servers are

also supposedly guaranteed. Unfortunately their hardware proved

unreliable and the backups were somehow corrupted too. Avalon will be

taking up that with them, seeking compensation. To compond matters

when they did put our system back up again they placed us on a

vastly inferior backup machine. This will be the reason for increased

lag over the past week or two.

Today they upgraded us onto better but still inferior hardware. You should

notice a speed improvement. However, I am told by the people in DC that

this machine could be unreliable. We will hopefully be upgraded back to

a full machine within a week. Meantime, bear with it. I'm hoping there

won't be too much disruption and the current machine is twice as fast

as the one we've been running on since the crash.

Written by my hand on the 15th of Eleuthral, in the year 968.