empiresmod.com redirects to forums e: and stuff like the manual and quick start guide are gone. whats up?
empiresmod.com had to be taken down right now as a precaution due to drupal sites everywhere getting hacked. I fixed the manual and quick start guide not appearing, apache wasn't set to recognise 'index.htm' as an index page. The quickstart guide doesn't work when you click on it in game, but the manual and quickstart guide can be found at these links: Manual Quick-start Guide
I am working on the wiki now, I also fixed the video id for youtube embedding not working sometimes due to some post formatting rules kicking in and messing it up.
It always was waiting for the first time to load, it just doesn't do it as often or for as long now. I suspect it's when no one has viewed the forum for too long.
it wasnt happening when it was on epic dns if you ping the forums.empiresmod.com it takes exactly 30 seconds, every time happens to me every time iam inactive for a bit it doesnt happen for empiresmod.com just the forums and its happening for about 1 year now for me didnt had this problem before that time
It did happen when it was on the epic-empires.co.uk domain. Also pinging different sub domains will make no difference as they all point to epic's box.
I did an experiment while the forum was on Krenzo's box: First connect to the forum from IP #1: The usual waiting time Further connections from IP #1: Smooth sailing Immediately after that, connecting with IP #2 (different provider): The waiting time is back So I suspect it is something IP based, maybe some spam/DDOS prevention thingy?
try doing what I did here I linked a page there http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=18653 didnt tryed it since that tho
I think I have isolated the cause of this slow down to a particular plugin on the forum, where basically the slow down would only occur once every 6 hours per client's ip address. EDIT: I think I fixed it, a forum plugin was trying to contact a DNSBL that didn't exist any more and was waiting for it to timeout. It feels like the forum goes even faster overall now too.
it just loaded fine for me good job if you really fixed it more time on my breaks EDIT: I agree that it seems faster overall but Iam not sure if I can agree with that 6 hours interval, I swear it many times happened in even 1 hour of inactivity EDIT2: here is the link I meant in above post http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/c79vHt/http://forums.empiresmod.com and yes I was only "pinging" it through this website, not over cmd or etc...
I think it was more a 6 hour interval per client ip address, so if your ip changed it would reset that.
any chance to fix this? http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=18975 should be related to that move
Regarding the recent server downtime: The power cord had worked loose from the back of the server. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL