Server restart idea

Devrah Liioness · Post by **Devrah Liioness** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:15 pm

Well, everyone gets frustrated with the server crashing, here is my idea:

The server keeps a list on the web of who's 'currently online'. What if the people in that list were able to log into a sort of vote on the Illa website, and if everyone listed as being on the server voted to restart, a command could be sent out to the server to restart? It could only work if everyone agreed to do it, that way when there are no technical GM's around, people could still play after the server goes down.

I don't know, just a thought.

Post by **Nitram** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:56 pm

Such a system sounds nice. But there are some problems.

1.: This system will never be safe. There could be a evil person who use it, on any way we couldn't imagine now, to restart the server again and again.
2.: It the server crashes, the webside didn't notice it. So the server could be restarted, always.

Durin Silberbart · Post by **Durin Silberbart** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:39 am

3. Martin will not share his power. Me is wondering why he say nothing to this idea...aah..its not from Durin....

Hermie · Post by **Hermie** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:41 am

Maybe martin should leave his phone number on this thread. That way we can call him up at 3 in the morning asking him to reset the server. I'm sure he'd understand.

Garett Gwenour · Post by **Garett Gwenour** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:44 am

Oh he was on theforum earlier with the server down. I suppose he left it down for some reason, but I must admit I am going insane without my illarion fix.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:47 am

Uhm, I think they usually have to fix something, therefore restarting the server in the exact same state they left the game would ultimately re-crash it infinately. Yeah I don't deal with it, but this is the way it seems.

martin · Post by **martin** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:11 am

I cannot restart the real server, so my phone number won't help much.
The only one who can is Shivoc.

The idea is not bad but has a maior flaw: When the server crashes, shivoc wants to examine the reasons for that crash with a debugger. So, until we have nearly no critical bugs anymore, it will remain as it is.

Martin

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:11 pm

idea...

Have a sort of 'ping' command which yr char can send to the server... not to restart it, but sometimes the character freezes and you are not sure whether you are lagged, the server is saving.. or has crashed...