Clucking Chicken Inn

 Hello, I wanted to update the membership on where we are at with the transition to the new infrastructure.  To say it was bumpy is an understatement.   I think we are on the other side.  I have been running issue free from Friday morning to Saturday night, which are our busiest times. I have been watching a lot of status graphs and error logs and everything is finally running at normal levels.  This is good news.  It was starting to get dis heartening and it didn't look like there was a solution.  Well thanks to google Foo I was able to source a different piece of software that was more suitable to the task. The membership also found some bugs and I was able to squash them. So to recap some changes. Backup file download. I had wanted to use a http download service to make it easier for people to download the backup zip file.  This proved to be problematic for very large files.  Some users had backup files over 20 gig in size!  To fix this, I decided to move the backup file into yo

 January 8th, Our database provider had an outage this evening.  The cascading effect is the website was not able process user requests and then crashed. I believe this lasted no more than 10 minutes. I have taken steps move our database requirements in house.  This should prevent further disruptions due to factors out of my control. I will be transitioning tomorrow. There may be a momentary interruption in service. May your games always be fun, Pencils forever sharp, and your rules books at the ready. G Pa Dax (Brad)

 That was a long two days I have to admit.  I worked on this migration for the last year and a bit.  I thought I had everything covered.  I was hoping to have it all done in about an hour.  As some of you noticed, it was more like 5 hours.  Here are some things I encountered and where they stand as far resolution. 1) There was an issue with an invalid SSL/TLS certificate.  This is the thing that puts the lock symbol in your browser.  I put the wrong certificate up and didn't realize it had expired. People reported it and I was able to fix right away.  Resolution: Bought a new certificate and put it up. 2) People were able to start their game server, however everything was slow as molasses. Very frustrating to say the least. Resolution:  The file server needed tunning.  It has lots of capacity, however, the network was choking off the connections.  Change some config values and viola! 3) Random in game "Server Disconnects" notices. Resolution: This one turned out to be tri