Page 1 of 1
Server restart idea
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:15 pm
by Devrah Liioness
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.
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:56 pm
by Nitram
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:39 am
by Durin Silberbart
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:41 am
by Hermie
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:44 am
by Garett Gwenour
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:47 am
by Gro'bul
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:11 am
by martin
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
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:11 pm
by Llama
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...
