⚙️ Host Maintenance Notice — Confirmed Downtime Expected (Nov 11–14)
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Our hosting provider has notified us of a scheduled physical migration of their Chicago data center, starting at 12:01 AM CST on Tuesday, November 11. This work is being performed entirely by our host — not by UORealms — and will cause downtime for our Ultima Online servers and BBS during the migration window.
Our website, Discord, and other games will remain online throughout.
Beginning Tuesday, November 11, our host will be migrating hardware each night through November 14 to new physical cabinets in a nearby CoreSite facility.
Both the old and new sites will operate on a shared network during the move, but each morning some servers will be taken offline while they are un-racked, transported, re-racked, re-cabled, and re-energized in the new building.
This means our downtime will occur once, on the morning when the equipment that hosts our UORealms services is physically moved — most likely the morning of November 12 or 13.
However, our host advises that brief outages may occur on other mornings due to power or network cables being adjusted. A final short connectivity blip is also expected on the last day (November 14) when the original site is fully decommissioned.
This migration is a host-side, highly scripted operation that their technicians have performed successfully at other locations. Once complete, the servers will be running from a newer, directly leased facility designed for greater stability and performance.
We will post an update as soon as our Ultima Online servers and BBS are confirmed back online.
Thank you for your patience while our provider completes this move.
Our website, Discord, and other games will remain online throughout.
What’s Happening
Beginning Tuesday, November 11, our host will be migrating hardware each night through November 14 to new physical cabinets in a nearby CoreSite facility.
Both the old and new sites will operate on a shared network during the move, but each morning some servers will be taken offline while they are un-racked, transported, re-racked, re-cabled, and re-energized in the new building.
This means our downtime will occur once, on the morning when the equipment that hosts our UORealms services is physically moved — most likely the morning of November 12 or 13.
However, our host advises that brief outages may occur on other mornings due to power or network cables being adjusted. A final short connectivity blip is also expected on the last day (November 14) when the original site is fully decommissioned.
What to Expect
Start: 12:01 AM CST Tuesday, Nov 11
Window: Early mornings, Nov 11 – Nov 14
Downtime Duration: Several hours on a single morning (most likely Nov 12 or 13)
Additional Risk: Short, unplanned interruptions possible on other early mornings
Recommendation: Avoid important in-game activity during these windows and back up any irreplaceable data.
This migration is a host-side, highly scripted operation that their technicians have performed successfully at other locations. Once complete, the servers will be running from a newer, directly leased facility designed for greater stability and performance.
We will post an update as soon as our Ultima Online servers and BBS are confirmed back online.
Thank you for your patience while our provider completes this move.