Argonath RPG - A World of its own

Community => News and Announcements => Topic started by: Gandalf on February 03, 2015, 07:58:49 pm

Title: Back!
Post by: Gandalf on February 03, 2015, 07:58:49 pm: Sorry for the unexpected lon downtime of the site. The provider of the VPS kept insisting all was fine, even though rarely anything was being displayed.
Any way, all is back up now so we can continue where we left off last week.
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Hevar. on February 03, 2015, 08:02:00 pm: ARA forum will be back too? =)

ara.argonathrpg.com
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Post by: Spike. on February 03, 2015, 08:02:39 pm: Any updates on the other forums ?
And a small curiosity what's happening with mtasa.argonathrpg.com?
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Gandalf on February 03, 2015, 08:20:17 pm: Quote from: Fernando_Tlinga123 on February 03, 2015, 08:02:39 pm
Any updates on the other forums ?
And a small curiosity what's happening with mtasa.argonathrpg.com?
Are there any other?
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Mikhail Zakhaev on February 03, 2015, 08:21:53 pm: Hallelujah!
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Post by: Khm on February 03, 2015, 08:22:04 pm: Quote from: Gandalf on February 03, 2015, 08:20:17 pm
Are there any other?
wat :dead:
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Post by: beLTa on February 03, 2015, 08:23:09 pm: Quote from: Gandalf on February 03, 2015, 08:20:17 pm
Are there any other?

He didn't mean it. He asked what about other forums i.e, CIA, ARA and CMB etc. When they're going to get opened?
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Spike. on February 03, 2015, 08:32:20 pm: Wiki is also down
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Post by: Archie on February 03, 2015, 09:16:19 pm: Quote from: Mikhail Zakhaev on February 03, 2015, 08:21:53 pm
Hallelujah!
Now I believe that MTA:SA is really coming back!
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Manoni on February 03, 2015, 09:22:06 pm: Quote from: Sven_Clark on February 03, 2015, 09:16:19 pm
Now I believe that MTA:SA is really coming back!

forum was up for awhile now, lol.
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Archie on February 03, 2015, 09:35:55 pm: Quote from: Mustang on February 03, 2015, 09:22:06 pm
forum was up for awhile now, lol.
OMG :lol:
It seems that illness made me stay away from Argonath. I didn't know!
It's on maintenance mode, though. Grrrr!
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Spike. on February 03, 2015, 10:15:11 pm: Damn he's happy ^
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Post by: [NP]Monte Montague on February 04, 2015, 10:16:56 am: What about ParUni stuff?
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Post by: Teddy on February 04, 2015, 10:26:00 am: Quote from: [NP]Monte Montague on February 04, 2015, 10:16:56 am
What about ParUni stuff?

Paruni forums are up.
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: [NP]Monte Montague on February 04, 2015, 01:35:01 pm: Tell us the name of the host / provider.
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Post by: TiMoN on February 04, 2015, 01:52:20 pm: finally lel
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Post by: Marcel on February 04, 2015, 01:57:13 pm: Quote from: [NP]Monte Montague on February 04, 2015, 01:35:01 pm
Tell us the name of the host / provider.

argonathrpg.eu resolves to:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
argonathrpg.eu. 300 IN A 81.169.205.62

A WHOIS lookup for 81.169.205.62 tells us:

Germany Berlin Strato Ag
h2362279.stratoserver.net

Which tells us the server/VPS is hosted at Strato in Germany.
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Post by: [NP]Monte Montague on February 04, 2015, 03:39:15 pm: Quote from: SugarD on February 04, 2015, 03:12:59 pm
Which is also none of anyone's concern besides Gandalf's.
They are bad host.

Gandalf go to Godaddy they are ok
or this one
https://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/vps-classic.xml

only Â£15 a month men.
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: SugarD on February 04, 2015, 03:42:10 pm: Quote from: [NP]Monte Montague on February 04, 2015, 03:39:15 pm
Other than all the people who donated and would've thought a decent VPS was chosen.
Quote from: Argonath Club Fundraiser
This is moving our dedicated server to OVH, and creating a separate VPS with their own IP for each game server.

You are talking about a completely different host.
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Devin on February 04, 2015, 03:52:21 pm: Quote from: [NP]Monte Montague on February 04, 2015, 03:39:15 pm
They are bad host.

You do not even know who is hosting the forum at the moment.
The game servers and forums are in different locations on different servers for a reason.
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Chichibung0 on February 04, 2015, 04:22:26 pm: What about other websites like ara.argonathrpg.com, cia.argonathrpg.com, cmb.argonathrpg.com.
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Post by: Archie on February 04, 2015, 04:42:13 pm: Quote from: Chichibung0 on February 04, 2015, 04:22:26 pm
What about other websites like ara.argonathrpg.com, cia.argonathrpg.com, cmb.argonathrpg.com.
They are sub-domains so they are hosted on the same host with main forum.

Don't pick GoDaddy. It is slow as hell.
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Post by: Gandalf on February 04, 2015, 05:16:45 pm: Quote from: Sven_Clark on February 04, 2015, 04:42:13 pm
They are sub-domains so they are hosted on the same host with main forum.

Don't pick GoDaddy. It is slow as hell.
No they are not. We can put subdomains on another host as the main site, pretty simple if you know what you are doing.

For those who want to know, this is what we uese:

1. Aleph : US webhosting account.
While unlimited in domains and webspace, it is used for smaller subdomains due to the account not being fit to handle sites with a lot of traffic.
Sites like FBI, ARFD, ARA and clan sites are hosted there. It runs on a linux system at Dreamhost.

2. Beth : Webserver
Currently on a VPS in Germany, it has been there for over a year now so any complaints about the host are not fully true. We have recently upgraded to a larger VPS, and that one has been giving some trouble. For now it is ok, as it has been moved to another machine meaning it operates without problem. Currently the webserver has 8 cores, 16Gb RAM and 800Gb space, we have had dedicated servers with less.
On this one we host the main sites, ARPD and wiki.

3. Gimel : Game server
This one is the one which we recently moved to OVH. Currently it runs a number of VPS servers for our games, and it is getting busy.

4. Daleth : Currently not running, in the past we ran a separate server for Paruni. May come back if finances allow.

Why do we keep these things separate? Simply because if one part goes down, the rest stays up. We had expected a much shorter downtime, else we would have switched the main site to provide updates. In principle Argonath RPG will always stay online in some form.
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Dutchy on February 04, 2015, 06:12:55 pm: That's smart, not relying your entire capabilities on one entity.
It's like a 99.99% foolproof space engine, you'll always want exactly another one on standby just in case the 0.01% wins,
and then another just in case that one's 0.01% wins. :lol:
Title: Re: Back!
Post by: Chichibung0 on February 04, 2015, 08:34:11 pm: I meant when will we be expected when these sites will become online again... But it seems like a host issue that you can't resolve. I'm not good with high tech stuff.