Too long waiting time after servercrash

[FarmerJoe]

When the server random crashs than you have to wait quite a long time until it's up again Isn't it possible to automate the restart-process?

[wickedgenius]

A page on the site with the server status would also be really helpful. The at least we know it's a crash and not something else.

Is this the real spec of the server:

It's running on an almost brand-new PC with a 450 MHz Pentium II and 384 MB of RAM.

[Delamore]

There are two reasons you'd wait after a crash.
A: Loftar is programming a fix, this is often the case when he is around. This prevents the crash from happening again.
B: It crashes while the devs are asleep, not much can be done in this case because depending on how severe the issue automatic restart might just cause more problems

[kobnach]

I am curious about why it's crashing so regularly recently. Have you (Delamore) found another bug that requires crashing the server to exploit?

[loftar]

Isn't it possible to automate the restart-process?

Well, it would be possible, but suboptimal. Using the current "system", I can manually inspect the cause of the crash, and, more times than not, save the maps and characters manually. If the server would be restarted manually, it would have to roll back to the latest save when it crashes. I think this system is, thus, preferable.

A page on the site with the server status would also be really helpful. The at least we know it's a crash and not something else.

Is this the real spec of the server:

It's running on an almost brand-new PC with a 450 MHz Pentium II and 384 MB of RAM.

Not anymore, actually. It was when we started getting users, but those 384 MBs of RAM didn't hold up to both the game and Apache once people started coming. The current server with 1 GB of RAM is hardly holding up anymore, actually, so I'm in the process of setting that old server back up just for running Apache (the forums are causing a heckload of CPU, memory and I/O usage, actually).

And yes, I agree that a status page would be useful. I'll probably fix one sooner or later.

[farmchamp]

1 gig ram? Get another gig. It will only cost like $20 from America, I don't know about Sweden though.

[Humps]

SEVEN MILLION SWEDISH FRANCS.

[Murpylawson]

Would it be terrible if J&L took on a few players from around the world as demi-devs so that the site always comes back up in due time?

[Laremere]

Yes

[Delamore]

Would it be terrible if J&L took on a few players from around the world as demi-devs so that the site always comes back up in due time?

For the reason Loftar stated, a "semi dev" would require access to the source to actually repair issues that come up.
And I doubt that they would ever give out that for many many reasons.