JodianGaming

Just went down again, sorry to report.

I actually figured this one out on my own... 🤣 ...That said, someone with less computer knowledge might not be able to.

Yes, I posted the information here before I realized I could directly message you. My apologies for the double-post.

UPDATE Posting here, cause the server status post is currently locked. As I understand the current problem, part of the server seems to be crashing (login) and the main server isn't recovering it like it should? If that's the case I'd like to put forward a temporary fix (so to speak). I've hosted a ton of servers in my time and, on occasion, some of them haven't been what I'd call entirely stable. That said, some time ago I came across this freeware developer who had a pretty solid Server Monitor. He goes by the name Jimbob Slimbob. His server monitor is pretty powerful and offers a ton of configuration options to, basically, watch an executable to make sure it hasn't stalled, crashed, or shut down. If it does, it restarts it. I've had it work with Minecraft, 7Days, The Forest, and many other servers. Again, it's completely free with no ads or anything. The dude made it because, like me, he loves gaming and hosting servers. Only catch is it's Windows based, and I'm not sure what your E&B server operates on. Anyway, if you want to check it out, here's a link to his site; https://www.jimbobslimbob.com/ P.S. Just forwarded this info to Kyp

Indeed, as I figured. I had no doubt there was a well-written guide. That said, for new visitors, there's not really anything directing them to that guide. Maybe that should be an automatic stop-off point after or during the portal account creation process.

Going to open by saying that the overall Net7 web portal is actually pretty good. That said, I feel the sign-up process is a little confusing to newcomers. I recently returned to the Net7 community after several years of being away and I have to say that it wasn't a smooth return. When I arrived the system had me create an account, this I expected, but it gave me no indication that the account was ONLY for the website and forum. After I created my account I spent 3 days trying to get into the game, thinking that it was broken or offline, before I finally stumbled upon the solution. On the Net7 site under "Account" I had to "Create Game Account". This was a bit confusing because in my mind I already had an account, so I didn't realize creating a GAME account was a necessary step before I could actually play. Perhaps this was laid out somewhere in the forums, but I'm a typical user and just wanted to make an account and get into the game without going all willy-nilly through forum pages. My suggestion here is to somehow streamline the creation of the Game account to coincide with the creation of the Forum account. Perhaps linking the login information across the two databases. An easier solution would be, as a part of the sign-up process, automatically sending the user over to the Game Account Creation page right after they create their Forum account. It would make the process easier for newcomers to actually join the community.

Just going based on recent experience, and watching the server status topic, I'm wondering if it would make sense (or even be possible) for the various parts of the Net7 server to have some kind of active monitors to watch for halts or crashes, and perform auto-restarts when these occur. I've seen these functions built into other systems, such as the Ark Server Monitor and the Game Server Manager for Empyrion. Mind you those projects are open-source and have a large community of coders behind them and improving them. That said, most of them just watch the process activity for stalling or send a random query to the active ports to make sure they respond. It just seems to make sense for a system that's designed to be online all the time, like a server. It also frees up the hardware team because they don't have to constantly respond to every little server stoppage.

Shoot... I'm guessing the login server is down again. 🙁