We apologize to the players for today's blackout, which lasted longer than usual. It was caused by the following sequence of events. The server already has automatic detection of the freeze and its situations, but I found that it needs tweaking. After the self-destruct function of the server after more than a minute of server freeze, sometimes not all instances of the server are terminated. The server will shut down, but only partially. It's her sister's turn to auto-restarter function. The function checks whether the server is running or not. As soon as it seems not, the server starts in a matter of seconds. Here, however, it encounters a problem, because the server in the previous termination was not terminated completely and so it reports the load on the port on which the server runs by default. That's why it goes round and round. This happened even today at dawn and the server was constantly running around, but it could not, because the port was already occupied. To all this, there was also an internet outage, players trying to connect and attacks on our server, which together launched another sister - protecting the function of the database for its temporary termination. The server was therefore unavailable for a few hours due to a disabled database, including pages. Then around 3:00 p.m. everything was all right without my intervention, I arrived just after all the events.
Our goal now will be to fine-tune unpleasant freezes and server crashes, further fine-tune all sister functions to communicate with each other immediately and in minutes in case of a similar situation, further fine-tune the security of our server and other things related directly to the server and its functions.
I would also like to point out that although our server successfully and seamlessly reflects all attacks on our server, without players registering it while playing, it is no fun. These attacks are very strong, persistent and are made up of the most experienced individuals who will stop at nothing, not even my personal life. Therefore, we pass on the whole situation, including offensive IP addresses, threats and others, to our protective authorities in the Czech Republic. Players do not have to worry, our server is now in maximum security, which we can not break even ourselves, although we know the access data, we have backups layered on several devices, GM accounts are now directly in the server core tied to the IP addresses of their owners and we will definitely not give up. This has never been and will never be in the policy of our server. We also thank all individuals for their written and financial support, they will certainly help in these situations and thanks to you we can provide the server with the best possible background and security.