THN offline - Back online

If any of you have followed updates on Twitter from @techhaven there was an incident at the data centre where the THN server is hosted. Something happened that caused the server to get very hot, and eventually one of the disks in the RAID1 array failed.

I wish I could tell you what happened exactly but the data centre hasn't given me many details - except that the air con went offline, and the emergency services were involved. You can speculate all you like what that means. What I do know is the disks reached temperatures of around 63C at one point.

So while a new replacement disk is obtained and fitted, the THN will remain offline. I will look at temporarily hosting the THN on a VPS solution in the next few days. If anyone knows of any decent UK/EU VPS providers please chuck a link in this thread.

Edit: P.S. Forgot to mention a important point. All data and files are all backed up and safe.

this site is a must, hope all gets well soon!

No THN, no NC..
Sad but probably true.. :p

Hi, we are passionated Neocoron gamers for almost one decade.
Since Techhaven is one of our most important sources for playing Neocron,
(Gaming without Rare Database is an horrortrip), we would like to offer you
Hosting of Techhaven without charging any fee.
This would be our expression of thanks for this awesome project.

P.S. We and our servers are located in Germany.

Feel free to contact us, if you are interested.

I've had to resort to Google cache to continue using the site.

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Originally Posted by Brammers

I will look at temporarily hosting the THN on a VPS solution in the next few days. If anyone knows of any decent UK/EU VPS providers please chuck a link in this thread.

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Just out of curiosity … what are the hosting requirements for the THN?

Ok first thing, sorry for the lack of updates.

However I have good news. The THN is back online. :D

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Originally Posted by aKe`cj

Just out of curiosity … what are the hosting requirements for the THN?

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The current server is a 4 core CPU with 8gigs of ram, running Debian Squeeze, with Apache, MySQL and PHP 5.5. The THN will run on less as the test server has less resource and it runs quite fine. The part of the THN that usually eats resources is the wiki.

So basically a good LAMP server with SSH access.

Now one thing I am looking at in the near future is a new home for the THN - I know a few of you have contacted me about hosting, but I'm not going to rush into changing hosts just yet. Also if you know of any decent VPS/Hosting suppliers available, let me know.

Edit: Could a mod add "Back online" to the thread title please?

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Originally Posted by Brammers

with Apache, MySQL and PHP 5.5. The THN will run on less as the test server has less resource and it runs quite fine. The part of the THN that usually eats resources is the wiki.

So basically a good LAMP server with SSH access.

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I bet you could do with a fairly small VPS if you throw Varnish in the mix, given that a vast majority of requests are likely anon and could be cached very effectively.

Phew!!!
I missed this page the last days. It was really hard to find important stuff with the wayback machine ;)
At this point big thanks for the THN.ORG-team. It's the number #1 resource for everthing about NC.

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Originally Posted by aKe`cj

I bet you could do with a fairly small VPS if you throw Varnish in the mix, given that a vast majority of requests are likely anon and could be cached very effectively.

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I don't have experience with Varnish myself, but what you say makes sense. I did have a quick read at lunchtime, and it seems the Stats DB and the upcoming Items DB V2 should talk very nicely to Varnish since Symfony 2 has good support for it. It get's interesting with the rest of the THN though.

I think Varnish will be a future THN project to think about. :)