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Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 2:58 pm
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...
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 6:03 pm
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.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 6:30 pm
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.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 9:24 pm
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.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 10:02 pm
by pkk
GoDaddy webhosting and 1+ GB mySQL database...
GoDaddy and 99.9% uptime guarantee, you get a cost compensation of 5% if they don't archive that uptime...
Here, you pay nothing and can complain all the time for free...
Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 6:27 am
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.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 8:46 pm
by Mastametz
Site just went down for another 10 hours or so
we're getting about 50% downtime over the last 3 days
Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 9:10 pm
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.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 9:47 pm
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.