PBW Server Problems--Take 2

LazarusLong42 · #1 January 25th, 2002, 10:59 PM

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

The parts for the server have been ordered and should ship tomorrow--or Monday if they don't consider Saturday a business day. If all goes well, PBW may me back up within a month of going down.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

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Originally posted by georgig:
web hosting? 300 people can spend 30$/month i think

Um... not quite that simple. PBW has to be run on its own server because of its own little quirks and problems. Plus it needs to have quite a bit of bandwidth--at least 384K upload, we think, to keep it reasonable. That's at least $100/mo at most hosting places. Doug has been getting hosting free through his company, but that may be becoming less and less feasible.

Bman · #2 January 26th, 2002, 12:14 AM

quote:
Originally posted by LazarusLong42:
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

The parts for the server have been ordered and should ship tomorrow--or Monday if they don't consider Saturday a business day. If all goes well, PBW may me back up within a month of going down.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

YES YES YES!

quote:

Um... not quite that simple. PBW has to be run on its own server because of its own little quirks and problems. Plus it needs to have quite a bit of bandwidth--at least 384K upload, we think, to keep it reasonable. That's at least $100/mo at most hosting places. Doug has been getting hosting free through his company, but that may be becoming less and less feasible.

Ways to cut down on required bandwidth (if ever needed):

1) Move the forums to a different server if you can find someone else that could host them...
2) Move the shipset downloads to different servers as well.
3) Remove the option to attach the game turns to the emails that get sent out. (still allow Users to reply to the email with their turn attached though!). Email attachments suck up extra bandwidth since they are encoded. And some people (like me) will get the email at work sometimes and so when I get home I goto PBW and grab the turn file again.

I'm sure there are other ways of course...

rja61 · #3 January 26th, 2002, 05:59 PM

Just got my International Paypal account. I have to wait for my credit card bill to arrive to activate but will send some cash then. Unless you want some cheap Canadian $$ sooner <g>

geoschmo · #4 January 26th, 2002, 11:48 PM

rja61,

Are you Yohan from the tourney? If so I have been looking for you.

Geoschmo

LazarusLong42 · #5 January 29th, 2002, 02:41 AM

Puke · #6 January 29th, 2002, 05:01 AM

just because the parts have been ordered, does not mean that hosting costs are paid for (which wont be your $30/mo web hosting, the server will need space rented at a co-location facility and will need per-megabit bandwidth charges paid. very costly.)

so if you are a regular player and you can still contribute, im sure the PBW guys can still use the help. also, they have put alot of uncompensated labor into the project, software development time, and the guys that volunteer as tech-support/admins have been first-rate in their willingness to help out and solve other peoples problems.

therefore, i offer another resounding BUMP.

geoschmo · #7 January 30th, 2002, 02:27 AM

Thank you Puke. You are correct.

While the "pledge drive" to get the parts for the server is over, we are still accepting donations via the same paypal link.

Our immediate priority is to get the server repaired and back up and running. (This is in process) Down the road we are looking at finding a new site for the server which will allow us to respond more quickly to issues, and may give us some flexibilty to do a better job serving the community.

Geoschmo