The Great Migration Of 2021

You will tell your children of this...

PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS

Seriously, the old box that had the IP 173.208.146.178 is now gone. I've had that box since January 2nd, 2015. But it was pricey and had older hardware. I replaced it with a box with a much beefier processor, 2x the ram, and half the cost.

In all the time that server was up, it was running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition. It was decent and served its purposes well, but Microsoft announced that it was EOL, and as such would no longer receive updates. So, we now are running a much newer version of the Windows OS across all of our server boxes (we have 3 now).

The old box used software call Knas Restarter to manage crashed games and other apps. Unfortunately, it does not work with higher versions of Windows. Likewise, fortunately, I have a new custom solution to take its place. Knas was a process monitor, the new solution is an application monitor. That means it works a bit different. Since it is new and untested (this is the test), there could be kinks. I will need to know of any problems when they occur. The good news is that the new restarter so far seems to be working great. As an added bonus, when a game crashes, unlike the old method, this will restart the server almost instantly. No waiting for the server to come back up. Just reconnect and you are there.

Please be patient as I get all of the servers back up. I will be migrating the gametracker stats for each of them as I do. I should have this mostly done tonight.

I will post updates in the appropriate areas as work is finished.

And again, please let me know of any problems.

Enjoy!!!

{DOU}Tommy