Server problems

[Jos Elkink]

As you can see, the forum is back up. We moved the forum to a different server from the main game, however, which was the plan for a long time already, so the game server itself is still completely down. I'm expected to have it up and running sometime next week, when I have more time to carefully reconfigure it. It requires a complete reconfiguration from scratch, so bare with me. At least we have all backups secure.

I sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused because of the downtime!

It is a bit of an experiment to see if this is a good host for our forum - so we'll see how it goes in the near future.

[Sunni Daez]

Thanks Jos

[BarbaricAvatar]

Parts of the forum could always be removed that are unnecessary should performance be slower (for example non-cantr and games sections). It's not as if there aren't another billion forums on the internet to do it on.

[WojD]

Thank you Jos Life without Cantr is really sad...

People have problems to access forums, maybe you should make redirect from cantr.net/forum or - better - from main Cantr page?

[Jos Elkink]

maybe you should make redirect from cantr.net/forum or - better - from main Cantr page?

Yes, I will certainly do that, but can of course only do that when the cantr.net server is up and running again, which is not yet the case ... making progress, though.

[Idriveayugo]

Having the forum on the same server as the game probably slowed down the server significantly. We'll see if this helps any.

[BlueNine]

Yaay...now we can come on here and complain if/when the game crashes on the new server (always thought it was a cunning plan to make them cut out at the same time )

[Illidan]

Hail CANTR II

Long live to (king?) CANTR II

Lets pray to we never have a crash anymore =D

This is TIME for call new players, gogogo

[schroederjj2003]

Jos, thanks for all the hard work.

[Taralyn]

After a couple of months with my own computer out of action I returned to CANTR only to get an error message! I was horrified and tried to google what was going on. After no luck I assumed that the unthinkable had happened and the CANTR world wa no longer!
I am much relieved to find that this is only a temporary sleep for all the charries in the CANTR world.

[Jos Elkink]

Yes, this was the most frustrating part - at some point I did not even know how to warn people.

And then when I finally did, I forgot to add a date, so you could not determine how long it had been offline ...

[Dee]

The same thing happened to me! After a year without Cantr, I returned yesterday and I thought it was closed down, but thankfully it wasn't. I'll wait till it gets up again, then I'll create a new account.

[chadpants]

Yaay Dee! We're very excited to have you back!

[FeetUp]

Thanks Jos and other people directly dealing with this problem!

BUT...

Every self-respected admin would never allow his system to be down as long as cantr server is down right now I understand - there were problems. At the same time there was no disaster recovery plan in place. Weird...

Ok. I understand, finance are involved here. But this is not an answer to problems.

Once you built a system and people use it, you have to make sure that if the system goes down it will be down not longer then XX hours/days. It is a bit ridiculous what is going on right now.

[Idriveayugo]

How about you come up with this disaster recovery plan feet?