He's checking it when he gets home today.
He didn't last night because he was kept late and forgot before he passed out upon getting off work.
Timezone differences suck!

As for why we don't have the computer auto fix stuff like this, we do.
If the shard dies or its a software issue, it is setup to kill and recover.

For whatever reason, the entire server is offline/unconnectable, both the game server and various other things running on it. It could be an isp issue, it could be a hardware failure, but if it coulda been recovered via software, rest assured i've talked bb into usually having stuff setup to do just that.

Hence why we've had relatively little software-based downtime over the past few years, normally its connection related.

As for the phone alert approach, i am sorry for the delay on getting to this, my old script that is setup to do just that, didn't, due to me not having updated it when we switched over some of the nameserver stuff a few months ago. Normally i get a nice little message within an hour or few of any shard downtime.

tyvm for your update bob look forward to getting back too it!

Karin wrote:tyvm for your update bob look forward to getting back too it!

ditto

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Palameta wrote:EDIT: Read bobs post. it is not a software issue other wise it would have been reset. BB is looking into it but he is also extremely busy so please be patient.

what he said that i said tht was suppose to say instead of what i said prior * takes a deep breath woooo

Hes checking it today? it's 2 days from that post now..

Back online, but seems choppy/laggy on my end.

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Apocalypse wrote:like sending a text to your computer...im sure an intelligent programmer could design something to recieve texts and turn on his computer, or something of the sort!

That sounds decidedly James Bond

However, the best way to do what you're trying to achieve hardware-wise would probably be Wake On LAN via a VPN connection.

If it were a software issue, I expect you could pretty much go in via SSH and do whatever you want.

Hopefully BB will get to the bottom of whatver hardware/connectivity issue is to blame...

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