Calling windward server Admins; let's see your server setup.

[danskmacabre]

I've noticed quite a few windward servers out there, which is pretty cool.
I've been wondering what your servers are set up on hardware, software and internet conectivity wise.

Also if you have any interesting server tools such as monitoring, server restart automation running and so on.

For me, my set up is as follows:
I installed raspian on a raspberry pi, version 2. Running off a class 10, 8gb microsd card.

I also have a lamp stack on it which I use for some test websites.
However that's only running when I'm testing website stuff.

I have SSH enabled for remote command line access and vnc for remote desktop access.

I had to install mono, which you use to run Windows exes.

I currently run the wwserver.exe from shell and I check every now and then to see if it's running Ok.
So far it seems to be ok.

I'm going to transfer the os to an external Hdd this week sometime, which will give me lots more storage space and probably speed up the rpi a bit too.

I'm going to control to call to the server with some python scripts, so if the server exe does crash, it'll just restart the server exe.

My internet is a home adsl+ broadband service, which seems to be good enough so far.

The server itself is called "RasPirates" and I leave it running 24/7 and it's based in Brisbane, Australia.
I run an open server, which means you can use local characters.
I was going to make it serverside characters only, but I read here that serverside characters aren't saved properly. I'm not sure if this is still the case.

It'd be nice if there was a server control interface, so you could send server messages, and other functions.

Anyway. What have you got running?

[ArenMook]

For you being in Australia my ping to you is pretty solid. I'm getting 370 ms on average. Other Australian servers I've tried in the past were like 800.

[danskmacabre]

Nice it's a decent ping.
Whereabouts are you located? Is it Toronto?

[ArenMook]

Yup, other side of the globe.

[Hafenzoll]

Originally posted by ArenMook:

Yup, other side of the globe.

Seen from your left or right hand? :)

[Acoustic1974]

Sever: Sailing the seas of cheese...
Hardware: Dell D630 w/2gb ram
OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Connection: AT&T Uverse
Location: North Texas

I just installed Ubuntu last week which was really easy. I have a lot to learn though, and need to work on how to get all the cool remote tools setup to monitor it. I also had to install mono to run the WWServer.exe. It seems stable, so far I like it!

[danskmacabre]

Oh well bummer, I should have moved my OS to an external HDD sooner, the Microsd card died. grr.... So the server will be down for a bit until I can rebuild it ona new card and transfer it to an expternal H?DD straight away.
Annoying but hey..

[danskmacabre]

I've got a windows server up now with a new world as a temporary measure, which is server side only for characters, which I'll be using from now on, as allowing local characters unbalances play a lot if someone logs on with a very high level local character.
When I rebuild the Raspberry PI OS onto an external HDD, I'll port across this new world to it, which should be later this week I hope.

Either way, a new has been generated for serverside characters only.

Sorry for those who lost time spent on the Raspberry pi server, but it was an experiement and using an Raspberry Pi as a server kils the Microsd card fast as it has a limited amount of writes.
I was already using it as a webserver, which probably was the main contributor to killing it.

Next time don't run the OS off a microsd card for a server. :(
But it will return. :)

[danskmacabre]

I hadn't port forwarded the windows server properly, but it should be ok now

[danskmacabre]

Hi all, the Raspirates (Windward server on a Raspberrry Pi Version 2) server is back up again and running on an External HDD, rather thana MicroSD card. So it;s super stable and will be up 24/7 from now on.

No characters or server data was lost.

[danskmacabre]

I've created another world that allows local characters for people to use their own characters to play on.
So there's an option for local and server only characters now.

[dagon]

Hi,

I was thinking myself of setting server on RPi (to justify purchase of one :D), but instead went with utilizing old Asus eee pc netbook. I have there ubuntu in the text mode. I connect remotely via ssh. I have installed mono that is used to run WWServer.exe and wrote a bunch of scripts that monitor server, grab logs etc. Also I have setup site written in python+django that process logs (in the background) and shows stats: link[dagonden.ddns.net]
Website itself is running with uwsgi+nginx and both are 24/7 on at the same time. Everything is running smoothly, even when I happened to have players from America, Europe and even one fellow from Japan!
(I am in europe fyi)

[danskmacabre]

Hi Dagon, that server mod looks cool. I'll take a look soon.

I have a few PCs here I could have used, but I wanted to mess about with a Raspberry Pi and I have a spare Raspberry Pi v2, so I set it up on there.
So , yeah it was really just and excuse to mess with a Raspberry Pi ;)
Well, that and a Rpi is a lot less of a power draw.

[KineticEcho]

Too bad Dagon's webstie is not online anymore, i was curious to see it working!!!

[Pogz]

2019, restarted my sever (map saved and all, character data gone) bye 300 hours. Excuse me as I have to apologize for people playing in my server that the devs didnt had the right thinking to save it along with all the map .dat files.

[Permanent☠77]

Okay. Personally I know a lot about the game's flaws and keep pushing that in the front of the admins or developers eyes and I don't even care if they ban me again for that. But there is a stupid big mistake at your side. Backing up a server isn't copying one single file you call .dat. Even if you copy the correspoding config file that do nothing with the players.

This is a server we're talking about. You should copy the whole Windward folder in your My Documents or wherever it saves on the different operation systems. Steam servers save server files on the Steam cloud, personal servers save the file on the personal computer, this simple. I even disabled the Steam syncing because it mess with a lot of other programs too. Windward at least save everything locally too which can not be messed up.