Australian RTDM Server - {Back up - 03/05/16}

Well Exid, do you know how to run a KAG server? Do you know how to make Frinkweb work? Can you organise events for the Australian playerbase? Can you setup a mumble server for the Australian KAG players?

Not only do we do all of the above, we go beyond, in which we host multiple KAG servers; Australian CTF server, Australian RTDM Server, Australian Parkour server, co-run the Australian Zombie Fortress, and various others from time to time. We host multiple events, including but not limited to Admins Vs Pubs, Lavalord's Map Contest and we have some sekrit ones for the future :3 We screen our admins for top tier qualities, while assisting the devs by contributing to the KAG Scripting build. We also host a mumble server for you to use, be it for KAG or any other game. So as you can see the list is rather long, how do we manage to do all of this? It must take lots of time and effort to maintain these things, right? Well Lavalord and Myself try to make ourselves available to fix problems should they arise at all times of night or day! By idling on the #KAG.aus IRC Channel we run/manage. A lot of our free time goes to keeping things fresh/maintained for you and the Australian community.

So as you can see, there are many examples I can give you of things lavalord and myself work on, that do not break, crash or fail but alas, such is IT and life for that matter, there will always be problems and there will always things going wrong.

Now let me explain to you how frinkweb works (the rough gist of it)

First of all, a database is made (to hold all the data or kills) using Postgres/SQL. The data is pulled from the log files by a script called logparser.py - This script often breaks due to names with characters (letters/numbers and that sort) that can't be parsed (this happens at least 3 times a day) the script also misses kills/deaths, all in all it's quite tiresome to fix the script everyday, but that's no problem! We can parse the logs manually, we do this by using some commands in python, which goes through the logs and grabs the kills/deaths and puts them into our database.

SO sweet, that's all well and good, we have our database, but how do we display this? Well through the use of HTML, postgres, CSS and other such thangs that I have little understanding of, we build a website, and use the database to display our data.

Further to the previous post about what has happened:

Lavalord purged the database (removed the data in the database) last night as it hadn't been updating for a while. He then rebuilt the stats which can take quite a lot of time (manually parsed the logs using python), especially seeing as it was the WHOLE database. After the parsing ran, the Stats site STILL did not pick up all the kills/deaths, so Kaizokuroof re-ran the parsing of logs, which STILL didn't pick up all the kills, due to the logs being separated over nightly backups. We are now here at this current point in time. As you can see, neither of us directly made the stats site crash (it is an un-intended feature) it just happens to be like every other day, only I decided I'd bump the server thread, to show you we care.

Don't get my words twisted, we would continue to do this even without all the amazing praise we receive (we larva you guys <3) but there is a lot of time and effort that goes into this, even if it seems like something so little to you, it's quite a large task for us. >: )

Kind Regards,

Kaizokuroof & Lavalord