[23-NOV-2006] New powerful server

lackattack · Post by **lackattack** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:43 am

Hey Conkies!

Conquer Club has been growing quickly over the past couple months. We have close to 6,000 active members on our scoreboard, have served about 100,000 games and have seen almost 400 members online at a time :shock:

All this activity takes a toll on the server and at times the website performed really slowly. We were reaching full capacity and I had to take action...

Our new home is a powerful, fully managed dedicated server from Rackspace, one of the most reputable hosting companies out there. Obviously this would not have been possible without the financial support from Conquer Club members, so hats of to all of you premies =D>

Everything should be zippy now and we shouldn't have to upgrade the server for a long time. For the computer geeks out there, here are the specs:

Dual AMD Opteron Processors
2 GB Memory
120 GB IDE Drive
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
1 TB Monthly Bandwidth
"Fanatical" 24x7x365 Support and Service

In other news, we have some staffing changes: Scarus has decided to retire from the Mod Squad. A beacon of decency, Scarus's input and assistance was much appreciated. Fortunately he'll continue to play the role of honourable adversary in the games! We have appointed 3 new Multi Hunters: sully800, Master Bush and Fireside Poet. Zookeeper AndyDufresne will be training them in the black art of cheater-busting and eventually we'll see the trio investigating accusations in the Cheating & Abuse Reports forum. That should give us enough coverage to keep the games clean as our community grows.

Finally a word about New Recruit deadbeats - I recognize that this is an important problem and over the next few weeks we'll be taking steps to improve the indoctrination of new members of the club - which should reduce deadbeating. Further anti-deadbeat improvements will be included in the next update. The next update, by the way, should be ready for X-mas or New Years and will be chock-full of goodies :mrgreen:

dcowboys055 · Post by **dcowboys055** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:57 am

3 cheers for lack!

wicked · Post by **wicked** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:04 am

toots?

HELP how do I fix greasemonkey to work on the new server? :cry:

JerenYun · Post by **JerenYun** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:10 am

My Greasemonkey scripts are still working as they used to.

And... awesome news. At least this can only mean good news for CC. Does that make the next goal to get enough users to clog up this server?

Moonglum · Post by **Moonglum** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:13 am

wicked wrote:
HELP how do I fix greasemonkey to work on the new server?

Right click on the monkey head and choose "Manage User Scripts"
In the "included pages" section, hit "Add" and type http://*73.3.139.99/*
Click ok and it should work fine

Not sure if the * is needed, but I used them and it works fine for me.

wicked · Post by **wicked** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:16 am

thanks, I forgot the "/" working now!!

AK_iceman · Post by **AK_iceman** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:20 am

Good job!

My greasemonkey still works same as usual.

And congrats to the new multi hunters!

Mjolnirs · Post by **Mjolnirs** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:28 am

Moonglum wrote:http://*73.3.139.99/*

I did this and no joy. Then I noticed the url in my address bar was 72 not 73. Changed it in Grease Monkey and all is good.

Thanks.

B-Psych101 · Post by **B-Psych101** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:37 am

WOW,

Your dedication to this project is awesome. Thankyou and I will purchase premium from you soon

B

sully800 · Post by **sully800** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:44 am

WOW

Things are absolutely zippy around here now! I just lost men more quickly on my failed attacked than I ever have before

Glad to see the improvements (and discover who my fellow multi hunters are!)

AndrewB · Post by **AndrewB** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:57 am

the brasilian man is broken (i guess because of international symbols)

Telvannia · Post by **Telvannia** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:42 am

go fireside $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$

just never bust me

General Mayhem · Post by **General Mayhem** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:56 am

Grease monkey not workin for me? Even after doing the management add?

Im on Firefox Mac OSX

Ah yes! 72 not 73 at the beginning of the http address!!!!!!!!

qeee1 · Post by **qeee1** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:40 am

Huzzah, yesterday was painful slow. Today I'm happy.

socralynnek · Post by **socralynnek** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:36 am

thanks lack, works much much faster than in the last few days!

nyg5680 · Post by **nyg5680** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:51 am

thanks lack its workinn much faster

Twill · Post by **Twill** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:14 am

well that should be enough power to keep all these wars going for a fair while

not much more you could have given it there...1TB of monthly bandwidth? Bloogy hell that's a lot of armies on a board

WTG multi-hunters, have fun :twisted:

Scarus, take care mate, you did good in your short time as mod. I'll always appreciate it.

Lack, keep on truckin' eh!

Roger Dodger · Post by **Roger Dodger** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:15 am

man this is super fast. congrates. i like it

P Gizzle · Post by **P Gizzle** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:50 am

i think steve griffiths shoulda been multi hunter, don't you guys??? :lol:

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:52 am

wow thats fast i like it!

P Gizzle · Post by **P Gizzle** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:54 am

nice server btw, it's so fast it makes fast servers look not fast.

sorry, about my remake of the Longest Yard reference

obysan · Post by **obysan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:56 pm

Well done lack, that is excellent news $\:D/$ . It was very painful the last couple of days [-o<

but im glad =D>

you took action quickly to help us adictive members to enjoy our games again. Appriciate it mate. Obysan

Fireside, well done mate, does that mean i cant take any more points of you in the games cause you will be so busy with the cheating stuff!!! :lol:

Congrats mate

Fireside Poet · Post by **Fireside Poet** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:44 pm

Thanks for the warm invites. I'll do my utmost to sheriff the multis, round them up, and slaughter them with precision and the best judgment I can give.

I would like to thank lackattack and AndyDufresne for asking me to serve CC in a more proficient manner than just a temporary holding station for points.

I will still play in far too many games than I should, so this will not hamper my gaming recklessness at all and the points will flow freely as usual.

In commemoration of this event, I have adjusted my avatar accordingly. Yes, Longfellow will no longer be just a black and white figure, but now symbolically color has now been added as my CC experience is now in a heightened state. :roll:

I'll refrain from going into a long, drawn out, drivel laden speech where the tears would flow from sheer boredom and just end it by saying:

Thanks again.

Dlakavi · Post by **Dlakavi** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:51 pm

You deserve it FP.

@lack: well done

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:06 pm

I'm a multi hunter SCORE!

EDIT:mb here sorry didnt realize I posted that from my monkey.

[23-NOV-2006] New powerful server

[23-NOV-2006] New powerful server

Thanks Huge

Well done!!! Excellent news