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Wish list / More Scalable Server Query
« on: January 22, 2004, 10:09:20 am »
I notice that right now, the server status page uses PHP to perform a server query at port 13333. From previous experience I feel that using PHP to perform queries dynamically is not going to be a good idea in high-traffic scenarios.

What I suggest is that Port 13333 only listen to local queries, and that a script that generates a static HTML page concerning the server status of PlaneShift be done instead. The script could be run every minute, with the HTML file included in pages such as this forum, and on planeshift.fragnetics.com

I have a few reasons for this:
1) In high-traffic scenarios the web-server is not going to be able to handle requests efficiently. We noticed this during the times when we were Slashdotted in 2002 and 2003. We decided to make our webpages static as far as possible to prevent this from happening again in future.

2) This prevents possible DoS attacks on port 13333. I\'m not sure if the main PlaneShift port can be attacked easily, but limiting the queries to local users or a restricted list of remote users seems like an ok idea to me.

3) Overall decreased load on the PS Server, which listens to the query port at 13333 apart from running the main PlaneShift game itself. Our web server would also become slightly more responsive.

I see 3 simultaneous connections to the query port this moment.

Devs what do you think?

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / PlaneShift Server Settings
« on: December 18, 2003, 11:17:23 pm »
Over the next couple of days or so, you should connect to 203.81.47.74 to get to the PlaneShift server. The planeshift.fragnetics.com subdomain, and all other subdomains under fragnetics.com will be unavailable.

This also means that the planeshift.fragnetics.com website will *not* be available. You can however check whether the server is running at http://203.81.47.74/gaming

No prizes for anyone who guesses what went wrong  ;(

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Wish list / Forum Newsletter?
« on: August 11, 2003, 04:32:02 pm »
There are a lot of very informative and serious discussions that go on in the Planeshift forums everyday and I think it would be very useful if someone could step forward and gather useful links to forum posts. Currently I\'ve got this extremely short list of 3 links on the planeshift.fragnetics.com website... But a lot of very interesting discussion goes on and more could be done to produce some kind of weekly newsletter on the discussions between the players and developers.

You\'d notice that the PlaneShift website appears reasonably stagnant (well that\'s my impression anyway) but I think there is a place for a site that gets updated on a more frequent basis so that people can read really useful forum posts or discussions but not need to visit the forums on a daily basis.

I think that such a newsletter could be hosted on the Fragnetics Planeshift site or on another independent location. This is a void that I think could be filled up, and I won\'t mind hyperlinking to such a site if such a volunteer doesn\'t want to put it on our server pages.

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / planeshift.fragnetics.com subdomain problem rectified
« on: July 28, 2003, 11:31:53 am »
Thanks to the investigative work of a Planeshift player, we have identified the problem preventing players from connecting directly to planeshift.fragnetics.com

This was due to a configuration error on our secondary DNS server, which failed to return correct information for the Planeshift subdomain.

The problem has been fixed and we believe that there should be no further problems connecting directly to the planeshift.fragnetics.com domain.

Props go to elizabeth5yqp for pinpointing the problem that led to the fix.

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / Server Crash
« on: July 15, 2003, 01:29:58 am »
The server that hosts Planeshift has just crashed again. Our guy is on his way to reboot the system. The Planeshift server would be shifted to an adjacent system in the coming days. It seems that there has been an increasing amount of data corruption on the present server and our team will be taking it down once all services (including Planeshift) have been moved to the adjacent server.

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General Discussion / Fragnetics Planeshift Website Redesign
« on: May 28, 2003, 11:57:47 pm »
I\'ve spoken with acraig recently regarding the need for us to clearly differentiate the Fragnetics Planeshift server website from the rest of the Planeshift-related websites itself.

What we\'re short of is a nice design that looks different from the main Planeshift site and serves information specific to our server itself. It might be best then that we open up the design to interested members of the Planeshift community to propose some suggestions and take on this task itself.

I\'m not really sure what we can offer in return... Free Web Hosting? Errr, free e-mail addresses? Your name credited on the design? I\'m open to suggestions. If you\'re looking for crystals I\'ll have to talk to the Planeshift devs... Since it\'s not up to me to decide on something of that nature.

Right now Planeshift is concentrated on one server but from the way things are going I\'m not sure if there will be more around soon... Still, I think it\'s important that our server has its own unique identity and I\'m wondering if any of you web designer people are keen on taking up this challenge.

Due to some security considerations I can\'t give anybody direct FTP access to the Planeshift directories on the server as the Planeshift team might have sensitive data in them. What I can probably offer is a subdomain under Fragnetics, and if the design is approved we\'ll transfer it over to the Planeshift account on our server.

You can take advantage of PHP, and perhaps MySQL too if it\'s really that important. So what do you guys think?

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / Lagging? Maybe it's really us...
« on: May 11, 2003, 10:24:35 am »
I\'ve noticed that there are some parts of the day (typically about 1400hrs GMT) that the server seems to lag very heavily or appears to go offline. In fact, I\'ve noticed this 3 times this week alone.

I\'m thinking that perhaps this is why some people are complaining of lag, because the problem is sporadic, lasts for a short period of time (15min - 2hrs) and doesn\'t register on our server.

The Planeshift server is hosted in the Pacific Internet Data Centre here in Singapore, and is hooked up via a shared 10Mbps connection. We\'re not exactly clear who we\'re sharing this with, but because we have noticed that there are periods of extreme lag or packet loss we\'ve communicated this to our ISP and hope they will be able to work out what\'s wrong.

Unfortunately due to the problem not being one sticks out like a sore thumb all we have are clues as to what might be the cause. I\'ll keep you guys updated on this rest assured, since our entire website and all our services seem to go offline during these periods.

We\'re not the only guys affected it seems. You might want to check our neighbours out (203.81.47.28 - wireless-friends.com) and see how they suffer with us whenever we hit these rough patches in bandwidth.

 ;(

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Wish list / MOTD
« on: March 21, 2003, 11:44:57 am »
I\'m borrowing from the idea of in-game information actually. Anyway, considering the amount of time it takes for the game to Initialize World I was thinking that another box could contain an MOTD like what MUDs or IRCs do. It could even contain something like a random news bite or tip to keep the waiting fella occupied...

My suggestion for the first MOTD would be uhh \"Please wait while the world initializes... This could take several minutes\". Even a progress bar could be really useful here.

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General Discussion / MSVCP70.DLL
« on: March 21, 2003, 11:07:55 am »
Just wondering, are there any copyright issues over MSVCP70.DLL that prevent me from uploading a copy of this file to the Fragnetics server? Cuz I noticed that this file seems to be required for Planeshift to run stuff like its updater and OpenGL mode properly. So far I\'ve managed to grab a copy of this file off the net through the forums here, but are there any issues preventing me from putting it up for download on the Fragnetics server itself so players can grab a reliable working copy from our downloads section. It\'s not a huge file so I\'m ok with putting it up.
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Darn just noticed the link at the top of the forums... Any way I can delete this post???

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Guilds Forum / Webhosting for Guilds on Fragnetics
« on: March 21, 2003, 10:03:50 am »
Dear All,

I\'m representing Fragnetics, which is currently hosting the official Planeshift server based in Singapore (Asia). I\'ve noticed that some of you guys connecting to Planeshift may be looking for webspace, especially for upcoming guilds.

Because we\'ve still got quite a lot of capacity on our server and also do a little bit of webhosting I\'d like to offer a small discount for Planeshift members who\'d be interested in hosting their website on our server. This server you\'ll be hosted on is the same machine that the Planeshift server is currently running off.

We\'re currently charging S$100 (S$ = Singaporean Dollars) per year for a 50MB plan which includes a 1-yr domain name registration and unlimited e-mail addresses. This would translate to about US$57. We\'d like to offer a 20% discount on our current rate, which you can find out more details of at http://www.fragnetics.com/services.html - That means either S$80 or US$45. This 20% discount would apply to all our other plans as well. Overseas subscribers can pay through PayPal.

If you\'re interested do drop me a mail at chrischoo@fragnetics.com. I drop by occassionally on the Laanx server itself under the handle Avenger too.

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