A donation of hosting and suitable bandwidth to handle the FGCom server has been agreed and we will be working on this tonight. This is a medium term deal until a permanent solution and the financial resources to cover it are available. That's a debate for later but it needs folk to start thinking about it now. We will be sucking it to see how it works out for bandwidth. If it becomes too heavy and impacts on normal business operations then we will need to look into putting a cap on users and/or tower freqs. I am assuming (always dangerous) that we have never had >50 FGCom users at any one time on <10 freqs. The proposed solution should be able to handle several times those numbers but until we get it up and running and do some stress testing we will not know for certain.
We will get the DNS records transferred so everything should Just Work as before. Stand by for announcements of testing and hopefully service restoration over the next couple of days. I would be really grateful if we could get some folks who are willing to help us test this as we fumble our way towards an optimal set-up. Basically we'd like you to log on and keep talking when we announce testing and not be too disappointed when the service suddenly dies for any reason. No music please, if there is any music or similar abuse then the deal will be terminated without notice. We need stress testing but please leave music out. So please keep monitoring this list, the FGCom topic on the multiplayer section of the forum and #flightgear on irc.flightgear.org for announcements of testers required. Thanks :-) -- Best Regards Willie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
