Server Move & Yesterday’s Crashes
We are moving to a new server mostly likely early tomorrow morning or the next. Jonquil will be updating the DNS so in theory no one should have any issues. Nonetheless, sh*t happens, so here is the IP address of the new server should you need it: 70.164.42.56. The port (4201) will not be changing. Jonquil tested migration of the game earlier today and it went fine, so this should be fairly painless. If you have any questions or concerns, leave us a comment.
Also, both of yesterday’s crashes coincided with a connection from a particular IP from which we’ve previously been getting routine connections. (Jonquil guesses it’s some sort of mud/mush checking bot for one of the MU info sites). He’s backed up both of the code changes he put in this afternoon. Should the next connection cause a crash he’ll take the further step of blocking the site, but he suspects we’ll be fine now.
Jonquil said,
January 22, 2010 at 3:52 am
DNS is updated and players this morning reported connecting with no error.
At some point I want to experiment to see which of the two changes I backed out is actually responsible for the crashes, if for no other reason to let the Rhost dev team fix it.