Plans for the server

[Cannon]

I'm posting this to let the community know what we plan to do with the server hardware in the near future.

The server is being kindly hosted free of charge by a company in Denmark. The situation is somewhat like majkp's situation in that the company is not a server hosting company. The server host and the internet provider are aware of the DDOS attacks.

As has been noted elsewhere, the server itself is running on a temporary machine. This machine is a little limited for this task so the number of players we can support will be less than normal. We're not sure how many players.

In 7-10 days, a new server machine will be available and the server will be moved on it. This machine is much more capable and might be used as the permanent server. This was the machine we intended to bring the server up on but for various reasons it was not available immediately. We had a choice to wait 7-10 days or bring the server up on a more limited temporary machine and we chose to bring it up now.

Once we are happy with our new server host (and our server host remains happy with us), we'll ship the old server to Denmark and either make it the primary server or use it as a backup. If for some reason we have to change hosts again, a number of people contacted me with offers to host and I'll explore these. Alternatively we'll move to paid hosting and fund this through donations and the admin team will underwrite the cost.

The only other thing to note is that I'm now actively working on the server universe split software so that we can make better use of these multicore machines.

I'm wondering if the database restore missed some character files. I'll check this soon and ensure any of the missing characters are restored.

You are welcome to ask other questions in this thread.

EDIT: A few other things...
1. The server has a new IP. See the server status thread for the connection information.
2. I'll be publishing an update to the mod to include the new IP address (for us and other servers) in the next few days. I'll probably do this as soon as server is replaced with the faster one.

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