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

Discussion in 'Server Directory' started by kaizokuroof, Nov 17, 2012.

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  1. Exid

    Exid Shark Slayer

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    Quick question have you guys (lava,kazio) ever made something that hasn't crashed, fail or destroyed just because one of you decided to change it a bit?
     
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  2. kaizokuroof

    kaizokuroof Agkubuk|'Kaizokuroof' Cilobakil, Roofpointy Global Moderator Forum Moderator Donator Tester
    1. PumpkinStars - [Pk#] - Inactive

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    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
     
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  3. Canadian98

    Canadian98 Haxor Tester

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    tel ma sekrit stuf noaw ploxxxx :)))
     
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  4. lavalord

    lavalord Haxor Staff Alumni Donator Tester

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    I have fixed the stat site!
     
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  5. -Tj-

    -Tj- Sicarii Donator
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    lololol, you know kaizo is curious likes to fuck with you ;)
     
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  6. Exid

    Exid Shark Slayer

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    Oh yeah can you ban me for a month, I know i will just go back to this annoying game after a week or so, hopefully a update will come in that amount of time. Edit : Did I just mess up the forums? I had another message that drafiks liked but now it's this one. Edit two :yes I did. Anyway it was about why you bothered doing that much effort in so many things.
     
  7. DeathArrow

    DeathArrow Catapult Fodder

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    Lol I wouldn't leave just because of updates anyway I saw today that we had a admins v Pubbies we should keep that a special day only SATURDAY
     
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  8. Guitarman

    Guitarman Haxor Tester Official Server Admin

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    As of now it is only on saturday
     
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  9. One

    One I got 99 problems and my name is One Donator Tester

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    Get on steam you lazy fuck, you have been offline for 16 days D:
     
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  10. DeathArrow

    DeathArrow Catapult Fodder

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    EPIC Win Form The Pubbies Today Smashed Admins I Had Awesome Game
     
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  11. Canadian98

    Canadian98 Haxor Tester

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    That wasn't the only game. It's still going.
     
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  12. DeathArrow

    DeathArrow Catapult Fodder

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    Yeah I think it was 2nd game Pubbies did well
     
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  13. Canadian98

    Canadian98 Haxor Tester

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    Kaizo, my old map, fixed the spawns :)

    Mountains3.png
     
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  14. Eden

    Eden Galen Slayer Donator

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    Brings back the memory's from the day's of Soulrealms server. And then when Cana's map came on "OMG DIS MAP IS LYK !!! OMG YAYAYAY".

    Please put this map in. Gobbie's included.
     
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  15. Canadian98

    Canadian98 Haxor Tester

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    It's in :)
     
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  16. Iamaclay

    Iamaclay Shark Slayer

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    Kaizo and Lava, Thanks for all your dedication and hard-work!
    I don't mind if the stat site has issues or if the server goes down because the fact that it is there in the first place is good enough!

    (moaar giev mi sekrits noaw!!!11!) :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

    EDIT: is it just me or do those faces look like they are sloping slightly?
     
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  17. Canadian98

    Canadian98 Haxor Tester

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    They are sloping :P
     
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  18. lavalord

    lavalord Haxor Staff Alumni Donator Tester

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    Da sekrits r mine. :p
     
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  19. The stats page is broken, can someone fix please.
     
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  20. lavalord

    lavalord Haxor Staff Alumni Donator Tester

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    le sigh, alright.
     
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