Sunday, September 24, 2006

Server changes

As many of you saw a few weeks ago, our europe side had been suffering some bad split issues.
Many fights with the host, and they finally state that we're behind in our bills. So, we look - sure enough, tehy claim as such. I check my paypal records, shows otherwise!

Said host continues to be an ass, and so since then (about 3 weeks ago) all europe servers have been connecting to the USA (and have been very stable doing so). Because the server is just temp, though, the network doesn't reconnect during any sort of split - hense what happened today. During a minor change, motoko ran away from the network, and due to their being no server connect notices, no one even noticed until freek pointed it out (an i then stabbed Mike todo it).

We've found a new host that we're looking at getting a hub with - they're pretty nice and cheap.
The current hub we had was costing 50 EUR/mo - costly over $75 CAD/mo after all taxes - yikes! For reference, our US hub, kamui, only costs $50 CAD/mo. Granted, it's "only" $25, but when there is $0/mo in donations coming in, $25 does make a difference :P The new hub is only 19 EUR/mo, which is quite a price drop.

We've also found a (possible) new shiyu in France as well. The current box is nice, stable network and all, but is costly at 49 EUR as well. The new host would be 19 EUR/mo, and would give us native ipv6 support, that many users (ok, fine, like 5 :-P) have asked for.

All hoping, we stand a chance of dropping our monthly costs by over $100/mo :-)

Currently waiting for Evan to get his ass back from work so we can go over the figures. If we decide to change out, it'll happen within the next couple days.

~Francisco