Server Status Thread

[noindyfikator]

down again?

Both as a simple player and a supporter of a f2p game I am a little bit annoyed by recent server crashes and lags. It would be nice to have something done it about, here are my ideas:
- Notifications about server status from devs
- Reserve server to switch while first one is down
- Notifications live to devs about server status, semi-live communication through Discord or other SM channel about server issues.
- Post some details of server's current hardware and investigate lags.

I will be honest - early game is most fun and being switched out of the loop for 2 days straight makes both me and my friends kinda "meh", thinking about dropping the game. There goes the premium, loyalty cascade etc etc.

Where is H&H hosted? Server is single-threaded I believe? Is it a self-hosted solution? Cant we just throw more daka-dakas at it in a typical H&H way? Open a crowd-funding campaign, tell us the exact price of that Intel Core i9 5.8HHz or Ryzen 9 5.6HHz, wont this solve lags?
More SSD, more RAM - what do we need for this game? Make a special premium hat+support package for this goal in the store and we ll get that upgrade in no time.

Dude, breathe

[TheServant]

You need a better alarm

Probably, but I think you do too. Previously, I've just been grepping the syslog over SSH, but now I wrote this which should hopefully be a bit more robust:

Code: Select all

#!/usr/bin/python3

import sys, os, urllib.request, time
url = "http://www.havenandhearth.com/mt/srv-mon"
spath = os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"), "audio/sounds/takeya.wav")

while True:
    try:
        with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as s:
            while ln := s.readline():
                words = ln.decode("ascii").split()
                if len(words) == 0:
                    sys.stderr.write("haven-alarm: connected\n")
                    continue
                if words[0] == "state" and words[1] == "crashed":
                    os.system("play -q " + spath)
    except urllib.error.URLError as exc:
        sys.stderr.write("haven-alarm: warning: could not connect: %s\n" % exc)
        time.sleep(60)
        sys.stderr.write("haven-alarm: reconnecting\n")
        continue

Using /mt/srv-mon is nicer, because it gives you the information both immediately, without having to do repetitive requests and without having to parse HTML.

Your code is not working, brother!!

[ClothGown]

they're looking for new rats to power the server, last ones got into a fight and died while he was asleep (again)

[HamsterBBT]

Again waste time, last time is 12 hours, and now how much ??

[Havenasket]

Again waste time, last time is 12 hours, and now how much ??

1 more hour of downtime and Imma gonna write a negative review on this game in Steam, I swear.

[renren2]

seems devs woke up

[Harunobu]

Again waste time, last time is 12 hours, and now how much ??

1 more hour of downtime and Imma gonna write a negative review on this game in Steam, I swear.

Don't you realize how annoying and pathetic you sound?

[Mr_Bober]

Again waste time, last time is 12 hours, and now how much ??

1 more hour of downtime and Imma gonna write a negative review on this game in Steam, I swear.

Don't you realize how annoying and pathetic you sound?

Pretty sure that was a joke, chill...

[WESKERBOY]

down again?

Both as a simple player and a supporter of a f2p game I am a little bit annoyed by recent server crashes and lags. It would be nice to have something done it about, here are my ideas:
- Notifications about server status from devs
- Reserve server to switch while first one is down
- Notifications live to devs about server status, semi-live communication through Discord or other SM channel about server issues.
- Post some details of server's current hardware and investigate lags.

I will be honest - early game is most fun and being switched out of the loop for 2 days straight makes both me and my friends kinda "meh", thinking about dropping the game. There goes the premium, loyalty cascade etc etc.

Where is H&H hosted? Server is single-threaded I believe? Is it a self-hosted solution? Cant we just throw more daka-dakas at it in a typical H&H way? Open a crowd-funding campaign, tell us the exact price of that Intel Core i9 5.8HHz or Ryzen 9 5.6HHz, wont this solve lags?
More SSD, more RAM - what do we need for this game? Make a special premium hat+support package for this goal in the store and we ll get that upgrade in no time.

I personally think that the devs has Made a amazing job bringing us haven, is still a beta and this problems won't stop, as players we should understand and wait, still there would be Nice to know server status in Game Window in that way we could know if server is up or not

[fulma]

did you already tried to put the whole server code inside a try catch?