29-06-2001 21:51									#1
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Just an FYI - the server seems to be down again, just in time for the weekend.

Last edited by burbel on 02-07-2001 at 23:45

	30-06-2001 07:08									#2
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What's going on?

	30-06-2001 07:56									#3
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If I wasn't leaving town in a week I would register twgs and start running it on my webserver. Dan just doesn't seem to have the time to maintain it the way we would like to see it maintained. If nobody else picks up the ball, maybe I will do this later in august when I get back from Quebec.

	30-06-2001 16:45									#4
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I am curious to as why does the server crash so often. The box apparently is up as it's responding to pings.

	30-06-2001 20:20									#5
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Well, in talking to a few friends that play this game more often, it seems like the part that allows the game to have multiple players at once also makes it much less stable, and I think that is the cause it goes down so much.

I liked Dan's idea of having a cron job (or the NT equivalent) to restart the server regularly, just in case, but I guess that he didn't have time to do that.

Still, all things aside, I am still very grateful for Dan and all the time he has spent in helping us with this!

And I'm sure the makers of Swath don't mind the registration fees I paid, either.

	01-07-2001 12:43									#6
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Personally, I think Dan gets a kickback from the makers of SWATH and that's why he really offered to host the game. Now that so many of us have registered, there's no need to actually even bother running the game any more.

Let's hope that it's really just that they need all the processing power they can lay their hands on right now to compile the final version of Civ III.


EDIT:
BTW, the server is still down.

	01-07-2001 18:47									#7
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There's an AT command in NT that can execute batch jobs at intevals. Not sure if that would do anything though since he might have to kill the server first before bringing it up, or something.

	03-07-2001 01:59									#8
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You could do that. I think the reliability would be much better if he the cron job was such that

Every 3-4 hours it would kill the server and restart it regardless of anything. IT would be a bit inconvenient while playing but I doubt it takes hours for it to reload the service.

	03-07-2001 02:18									#9
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I would have to agree. Or maybe just once every 12 hours; yes, we would still be out for a good period, but it wouldn't be down for 4 days straight. Just my .02. And everyone knowing that at 6pm and 6am, for example, wouldn't be too bad.

	03-07-2001 07:35									#10
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Even once every 24 hours right after extern is okay.

The server is STILL down. I thought they would have found it out on Monday?

	04-07-2001 07:04									#11
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Still down and counting...

	04-07-2001 12:29									#12
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lets see... it will be only a day till we are all deleted... that will make for an interesting turn of events

	04-07-2001 13:13									#13
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perhaps we could find a server that will host a game for us at the tw forum? http://www.eisonline.com/TWForum/