Regular Maintenance Survey

Last year we wrote a blog about major upgrades to our infrastructure, including the gradual move to cloud-based world hosting to improve performance and stability, and eventually help us add servers in new territories.

Also, in the fast-paced world of the internet, new threats arise constantly, so our engineers must keep our systems up to date and well maintained - installing firmware patches and kernel updates, etc.

Unfortunately, some kinds of maintenance work would be unfeasible or unsafe to do while everyone's playing. So we need to pick times when the games may be shut down for this maintenance to take place.

As Old School RuneScape players live all around the world in different time-zones, this will unfortunately coincide with the perfect playing time for some people. That's why we're asking you, the players, when you'd prefer us to do this work, since we can't slip it all out alongside the existing Wednesday game updates.

This survey will not lock in any results; it is purely to provide the team with useful information to help make our decision.

If maintenance slots are very frequent, our SysAdmins can keep most of them short, maybe 20 minutes for a simple job.
However, if maintenance slots occur less often, or if they coincide with the Wednesday game updates, there'll be more work to do during them, so the games will remain offline for longer.
Hours-long maintenance slots will sometimes be necessary regardless, sorry!