Scheduled Realm Maintenance - 03/16/2010

UPDATE:

Thank you for the replies. We are expecting all realms to become available shortly, as reflected in our Service Status forum here:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23766798312&postId=237647615336&sid=1#1

Q u o t e:

We are currently working to bring all realms online and make them available for play. Many realms are already available and we expect the entire list to be available here shortly.

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Realms should be available and log in should be possible. Please attempt to log into your realms now. If you are unable to log in, please feel free to submit a post here.

Thank you for your patience as this maintenance period concludes.

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Another Tuesday, another maintenance. Good morning, CSF!

From our Service Status Forum:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23766798312&sid=1

Q u o t e:
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, March 16th. Maintenance will begin at 05:00 AM PDT and conclude at approximately 11:00 AM PDT. During this time, all realms and many web services will be unavailable.

Thank you for your patience.

As always, realm maintenance is an excellent day to catch up on your own system maintenance. Update software, scanners—essentially tidy up :)

Tuesday Recommended Reading List:

Battle.net Account Security
http://us.battle.net/security/

Computer Security Recommendations
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778038509&sid=1

Why the Downtime Every Tuesday?
https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=89429867&sid=1

Just as a side-note...

I was watching the Science Channel yesterday afternoon, and they had an episode on computer security. According to this program, it's estimated that 1 in 4 computers worldwide have some sort of infection, be it trojans or viruses, or just spyware that collects information and email and sends it off. They also estimated that one-third of internet traffic is either spam, or other activities associated with spreading spam.


Something to think about.

Q u o t e:
*waves at Orlyia*

Morning Wufie, how is ya?

Realms are counting down.

Also, please remember that whenever realms are under maintenance, it's very common for web services that are supported by them to be unavailable as well.

Q u o t e:
Orly!

morning.

/hug


Realms are down already, aren't they? :(

Indeed they are, for roughly a half hour now.

UPDATE:

Realms should be available and log in should be possible. Please attempt to log into your realms now. If you are unable to log in, please feel free to submit a post here.

Thank you for your patience as this maintenance period concludes.

Thank you for the replies. We are expecting all realms to become available shortly, as reflected in our Service Status forum here:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23766798312&postId=237647615336&sid=1#1

Q u o t e:

We are currently working to bring all realms online and make them available for play. Many realms are already available and we expect the entire list to be available here shortly.