sounds like a plan to me.

I will chuck something up later tonight.

You are correct in one sense alot of people do not bother reading stickies.. but just by having a sticky there makes it easier to act.

So please, if you have anything you think should be added to a FAQ / Forum Policies thread. add them here and i'll add them to a sticky.

Ok found it (sub-User).

The server is on the control panel. But it looks like the permission to access it via your sub-user account has been removed. The server owner will need to edit the subuser account to allow you access if indeed they want to give you access.

Ok, What is your CP Username? so i can check it out

Quote from three_jump :

/me cries for support

can you be more specific?

Quote from Mrwei :

Tyre Physics Progress Report & Sirocco discussion

Sirocco discussion

Whoops!

Hi Drift_King.

Yes this will affect your server too. But it will not be starting until (at the earliest) 12 Midnight my time (BST) which is plenty after your races finish tonight.

I may have been slightly optimistic!

The preperations are now fully done so tonight its now just a simple case of second backup (5 minutes before clearing everything out). Clear everything out (this will mean stopping and removing the servers) then spend the next 2 - 3 hours setting everybody back up.

Sorry for the actual server side stuff being pushed back all the time. Just want to make sure it goes right.

Yes. 100% so, Please check first post for details.

ticket or forum is prefered both just scares me into thinking theres multiple problems.

Anyhow thats fixed for ya.

quick FYI

3J's Bug repellent ran out and ran into a snag whilst doing preperation on the billing system, By the time i got everything sorted it was already 3am so the main work has been delayed till the same time tonight.

Please do not abuse the reports system, 1 report per thread is good enough thanks, the Moderators are not stupid and are perfectly able to read a thread of this size when a reported post has been made.

You are both arguing and provoking each other and can either both get an infraction or both not get an infraction. Dont go around reporting other people for saying things to you that you have also said to them (don't care who started it!)

As giving out the infractions means having to send a PM im going to take the easy option and give nobody an infraction.

Thread Closed

lol 3j.

Cheers

this won't affect the web hosting at all (thats been kept preety nicely)

both of those servers listed are fairly bad at this stage but the one ending in .205 is deffinately worse.

Theres alot of old services and insims on those machines and some are still running (when they should not be). Its just time to do it right basically, making it so that when things do need to be moved / removed its not going to do any harm.

As most people here know by now, 500servers have been around for 4 1/2 years.

I'll be honest, When i started all this up i was not expecting to actually last (at the time there was at least 2 server hosters who were out to dominate LFS). For some reason though, those companies folded. and i managed to survive that first year.

Since then things have obviously grown, Unfortunately whilst things have grown i have not been as tidy with the changes as i should have been, Now that bothers me and i feel its time to set things right, As it stands from my point of view i see 1 of the boxes as being overloaded and in a bit of a state. Those on the server (81.19.209.205) have probably noticed below-par performance.

Tonight i intend to put that right, Tonight i intend to re-organise the servers, Control panel and billing system.

so what is going to happen:

• 500Servers New (an updated version of current) billing system will be installed and all packages / billing details will be transfered over manually (old invoices / records will be available in an archive).
  

• TCAdmin Control Panel (500control.co.uk) is going to be re-installed with a new database (will be setting everything back up from scratch) and moved to a new machine, The database for the control panel will also be moved onto the same machine (currently its hosted remotely which makes no sense when the remote server is down and makes the control panel useless!)
  

• 81.19.209.205 server and 81.19.209.208 server will be wiped clean (don't worry all files / configs will be backed up remotely before hand). Once this is done the servers will be re-configured for use with LFS.
  

Once all of the above is done everybodys services will be re-installed using the fresh install of the control panel.

What this means?
For the most part you will not notice a difference in the way things look. However you should hopefully notice increased performance abd a tidier (for some at least) File manager

How will this affect me? what about my server IP / Port?
As we will be installing effectively new services and then copying over your configurations your server IP / Ports will be different. However all your server details (IP / Port / Host path / http path) will be available in a new link on your control panel that will have all those details available for you.


What will be backed up:
Server configs (setup.cfg + cfg.txt)
Layouts
Insim applications (all associated files)

What will not be backed up:
Replays
old backups.

when will this happen, how long will it take?

This is happening Tonight between 11PM - 4AM Actual server downtime will be between 10 minutes and 2 hours (effectively depending on wether your surname begins with an A or a Z)


Anymore questions: ask away.

Quote from J@tko :

It's the 31st May today. Not the 1st June

/me whistles innocently....

Nothing to see here! Move along!..

(fixed date for tonight :rolleyes

after midnight tonight it turns into 02/06 so thats tonight

Quote from franky500 :

Thats the webserver again.

The Techies said it might have an issue again. I have ordered a completely new machine and ill be setting it up as a Co-Located server on somebody elses network for redundancies.

Will see if the techies can get it back running properly again for the time being.

I will have the new machine with me on Tuesday, Will hopefully be able to do a simple switch over by Thursday / Friday.

Right, New machine arrived however as we have now found the cause of the issues with the webserver i have decided to send the new machine off to the alternate network (co-lo with racksrv) and am setting that up as an extra game server machine.

The issue with the webserver is the motherboard and that will be getting replaced between 00:01 BST and 03:00 BST on 1st June (so overnight tonight) Expect the webserver to be down for between 30 - 45 minutes whilst the motherboard is replaced.

goodbye thread

@AMB, Removed your Avatar, inappropriate for LFS Forums

Quote from Ziroh :

ahh, please ^^ Can't help me without reading all that shit ? xD

I think its more a case of. if you are not prepared to research it yourself.. don't expect others to do everything for you.

For dedicated servers, you cannot find a server through LFS that is hosted on the machine you are using. To connect to it yourself YOU will have to use the Local Network option for the multiplayer connection.

Other people (assuming router / firewalls are all ok) can connect by finding the server in the server list / using the specific name function.

If you just want to check if your server is online look for the name using LFS World.

anybody still playing RBR.

Got the RSRBR2010 mod on it so i can do online sessions (its against the clock but other people set times aswell)

I have installed the game no less than a dozen times in the past but have never got round to playing it.

i do not know why!.

if its on 500servers it could be the control panel reading the Airio as "crashed" and therefore restarts it on the CP. i would advise stopping it in the 500servers control panel.

2.4.2 (for Full versions) now on 500servers CP

was working before i went to bed (3:30 BST) and its working now, no events logged.. All good from this end Deko.

2.4.1 / 2.4.1a now available on 500servers control panel.