Utility: Official release of the unofficial Dominions 3 Wiki

[lch]

Thanks a lot for the very generous offer to host the Wiki, I would definitely have been glad about this when I no longer was able to use my office as server storage. But even though hosting it from home might be sub-optimal and the server might be sluggish or unresponsive at times, I don't have the time that it would take to transfer the Wiki and prepare the software and the databases someplace else right now. Another thing which has become quite important to me and which I don't want to lose anymore is to have physical access to the server in case something happens.

I apologize again about the Dom3Wiki being unreachable over extended periods of time in the past. It turned out that the router that I had wasn't dying, in fact, but was configured to not hold and re-initiate the connection to the Internet in case it got lost, but to go to sleep in case there was no traffic for a while. Since my line was in use pretty much 24/7 before, this didn't become apparent before, but since I am now no longer using it during much of the day, the router would just shut down the Internet connection. I have since used a Host tracking software to keep track of my uptime, and I will share the findings that I got from it with you here:

Dom3 Wiki - August
    Total uptime:84.69% Downtime:2 day(s) 15 hour(s)
        Monthly uptime:84.69% Downtime:2 day(s) 15 hour(s)
            Day 2011-08-31 Uptime:99.97% Downtime:22 sec(s)
            Day 2011-08-30 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-29 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-28 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-27 Uptime:99.91% Downtime:57 sec(s)
            Day 2011-08-26 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-25 Uptime:20.43% Downtime:11 hour(s) 48 min(s)
            Day 2011-08-24 Uptime:0.00% Downtime:13 hour(s) 35 min(s)
            Day 2011-08-23 Uptime:9.83% Downtime:16 hour(s) 10 min(s)
            Day 2011-08-22 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-21 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-20 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-19 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-18 Uptime:99.94% Downtime:55 sec(s)
            Day 2011-08-17 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-08-16 Uptime:55.83% Downtime:6 hour(s) 16 min(s)
            Day 2011-08-15 Uptime:90.82% Downtime:2 hour(s) 12 min(s)
            Day 2011-08-14 Uptime:78.65% Downtime:4 hour(s) 19 min(s)
            Day 2011-08-13 Uptime:60.75% Downtime:8 hour(s) 42 min(s)
            Day 2011-08-12 Uptime:97.57% Downtime:35 min(s) 2 sec(s

Dom3 Wiki - September
    Total uptime:91.78% Downtime:3 day(s) 16 hour(s)
        Monthly uptime:96.28% Downtime:1 day(s) 21 min(s)
            Day 2011-09-30 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-29 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-28 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-27 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-26 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-25 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-24 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-23 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-22 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-21 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-20 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-19 Uptime:97.82% Downtime:30 min(s) 50 sec(s)
            Day 2011-09-18 Uptime:57.69% Downtime:10 hour(s) 9 min(s)
            Day 2011-09-17 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-16 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-15 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-14 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-13 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-12 Uptime:50.58% Downtime:8 hour(s) 59 min(s)
            Day 2011-09-11 Uptime:86.71% Downtime:3 hour(s) 11 min(s)
            Day 2011-09-10 Uptime:97.65% Downtime:32 min(s) 11 sec(s)
            Day 2011-09-09 Uptime:99.93% Downtime:60 sec(s)
            Day 2011-09-08 Uptime:99.94% Downtime:50 sec(s)
            Day 2011-09-07 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-06 Uptime:96.50% Downtime:50 min(s) 20 sec(s)
            Day 2011-09-05 Uptime:99.97% Downtime:29 sec(s)
            Day 2011-09-04 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-03 Uptime:99.83% Downtime:2 min(s) 10 sec(s)
            Day 2011-09-02 Uptime:100.00%
            Day 2011-09-01 Uptime:99.81% Downtime:2 min(s) 47 sec(s

The downtime in August is mainly because of the misconfigration of the router that I wrote about before. The longer downtime in September is due to a power failure that we had. Apart from those two incidents, I think the uptime is not too bad and I hope that you can live with it, too.

Last but not least I want to give my sincere thanks to those folks that still update the Dom3Wiki these days, new users and old Wiki veterans alike. Although I'm mostly absent from the forums and from the games and I can't spend much time on improving the Wiki much further, I look over what's going on with the Wiki edits from time to time and enjoy seeing that you continue to use it that much. Although there definitely is a lot of room for improvements, I hope that the Wiki is of some help to you.