Best-Ever public automated server host

[Qent]

So, as some people know by now (it's in IRC), BE will be down for a week or three. What happened, anyway?

[Deathisnear24]

Damn, that blows. I love best-ever servers, they are...the best ever...

[Marcaek]

Excuse me if I don't write the numbers but I fail to configure servers through the flags given when starting the server.

If you want the bitfields, just start a server using Doomseeker, select the flags you want to apply, and then copy the bitfields at the bottom into a text file or something. If you already have a server with the flags you want, just type dmflags\dmflags2\3 or compatflags\compatflags2 in the console and it should display the bitfield.

[Jenova]

Hey guys,

The servers are not going anywhere. They will be relocated to California in about two weeks (or sooner depending on productivity). We also plan to fix up a bunch of bugs before the bot goes live again.

With that said, users will have to re-register on the website to be able to host servers.

[-Jes-]

Cali? Damnit, that'll ramp up my ping to the 250s~ :|

[Bloax]

Well truth to be told that kind of sucks for anything east of there, since it's about three thousand kilometers further away.

Though what else can I say, it's still incredibly useful nonetheless.

[The Toxic Avenger]

70 ping is fine, and I'm on the east coast.

[Bloax]

Well I'll probably get something like +80 ping, which makes the ~120 I already have go up to around 200. Which isn't exactly good.

[Yellowtail]

Yeah, a lot of Euros are taking quite a large hit from this move.

However, I think I understand why this is happening: There's too few (if any) servers on the west coast.

[Jenova]

Actually, the move was because I was planning to migrate BE over to my current server in California which hosts a few others things. However, I've decided to instead migrate everything to one giant server on the east coast. Here are the specifications:

Intel Xeon E3 1245v2
32GB DDR3 RAM
2x 250GB Harddrives (for RAID 1)
10TB Bandwidth on a 100Mbit port

This should allow us to change our server limit from 60 to something around 150.

I'll provide a test IP once everything is set up.

[Torvald]

Excellent.

[Bloax]

... :O !

[Yellowtail]

Wow. 2.5 times the servers now. Interesting.

[Deathisnear24]

Sweet, can't wait for the servers to be back up!

[The Toxic Avenger]

*drools*

Looks like Zandro gets treated pretty well for this area, what with this, Spak City, and FC+ being crammed into around here

[Jenova]

Server is set up, you can ping 108.61.83.66 to test your ping.

Here's a picture of it for anyone who cares (nobody):



I'll probably be taking this time to fix up bugs and add a bunch of features, so expect it up sometime soon!

[Qent]

Aw man, poor Californians.

[Ruin]

Had me excited for some quality west coast servers. 83 ping isn't bad though :P

[piratefinn]

I got ~100 which is perfectly serviceable.

[Jenova]

Almost done!

I've also slightly changed how server hosting works. Here are the changes:

The mapwad option is the new wad option. Only use this if the wad you specify has maps in it. (wad= is now mapwad=)
The nwad option has now become the default wad option. This will not check for maps. (nwad= is now wad=)
The bot will not add default configuration files on a per gamemode, however, default configuration files will be added to the config repository (so you can do something like config=ctf.cfg).
You can add multiple configuration files.

All of the changes are reflected on the main website.