outage freeallegiance.org

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pkk
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Post by pkk »

During the past days/weeks you might have noticed the outage of freeallegiance.org.

I was told that the first outage on May 13th was caused by plugging in/out an USB device on the ESXi hypervisor.

I have no idea what the reason was for the other two outages on Monday and today, maybe they were caused by the same reason...
The Escapist (Justin Emerson) @ Dec 21 2010, 02:33 PM:
The history of open-source Allegiance is paved with the bodies of dead code branches, forum flame wars, and personal vendettas. But a community remains because people still love the game.
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Post by raumvogel »

Just out of curiosity,is there any way to re-direct traffic to a mirror site when this happens. It's going to look bad to any newbs who try to log in for the first time.
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Post by peet »

There are options, but costly, http://www.cloudflare.com/ for example.

I feel confident PKK has contacted the hyper provider to express his concern.
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Mastametz
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Post by Mastametz »

There is nothing whatsoever costly about hosting a website like this.
A few of us already have server resources available for a website.
A shared hosting package through godaddy...amazon..whatever is only like 3-4 dollars a month, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee and unlimited monthly bandwidth.
It's ridiculous that we're using the hardware of someone we don't even know who he is and doesn't play the game to host a site.
This isn't the year 2000. Web hosting is almost free, now. You don't have to pay for bandwidth anymore.
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pkk
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Post by pkk »

GoDaddy webhosting and 1+ GB mySQL database... :lol:

GoDaddy and 99.9% uptime guarantee, you get a cost compensation of 5% if they don't archive that uptime... :lol:

Here, you pay nothing and can complain all the time for free... :thumbsup:
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The Escapist (Justin Emerson) @ Dec 21 2010, 02:33 PM:
The history of open-source Allegiance is paved with the bodies of dead code branches, forum flame wars, and personal vendettas. But a community remains because people still love the game.
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Post by Mastametz »

I pay for a reseller package anyway. I have extra resources. AEM is already paying to host his website.
Money is not an issue in this, nor anything Allegiance-related, really.
The way things are set up just adds more problems for no good reason.
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Post by Mastametz »

Site just went down for another 10 hours or so


we're getting about 50% downtime over the last 3 days
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Post by factoid »

Hardware failure happen. Should be relatively smooth sailing now. What's the downtime been for the past 5 years? Not a good idea to cherry pick the window.
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Post by Mastametz »

It's not worth being dependent on this hardware - not so much for any reliability reason, but because nobody in the active game community or even forum community has access to it, as far as I know.
Not worth saving a few bucks a month to everyone who has their valuable time wasted by the delays caused by this arrangement.
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