Weaponsmith Archive

Anyone know what's going on with this site? I have not been able to log in for days

http://www.swgcraft.com

I've been wondering that too. I checked their "whois" record and their domain hasn't expired. Maybe they forgot to pay their hosting bill?

In any case, this just reminds me how much I would rather have their service than run around surveying and sampling on all the planets.

u may want to try www.swgcenter.com for the time being!!!!

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=948632&page=1

Imagine what would happen if this site was really to go down for good. I wonder how many crafters would throw in the towel. I know a great many of the old masters certainly would.

This combined with the doubling of city numbers is going to turn a lot of players off crafting. Yeah, in case you haven't realized it yet, you will have to search a lot harder for harvester spots once every inch of flat ground becomes no build zones because of 50 player cities infesting the map. The chore of harvesters has to be the number one killer of crafters.

Overall these two things combined could drastically shorten the shelf-life of all crafters in general.

I just checked it again and got the following message:

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SWGCraft.com Temporarily Down - Last Updated 15th December 2003

As many of you have noticed SWGCraft.com has been out of action since Saturday 13th. Due to circumstances out of my control and without any prior warning the server that the site was hosted on has been taken offline. This now means that the site is homeless and currently seeking somewhere new to live.

I have already seen the massive response on the official forums to the site going down. Please be assured that the site is not dead. SOE did not ask me to shut the site down. It's not a finance problem. The server has not taken a nose dive. The dark side has not prevailed. Please do not put any weight behind the words spewed out by those who like to spread rumors when things like this happen.

Apologies for not filling you all in sooner but I am still not sure myself why this has happened.

I am currently looking at three options (in order of preference):

1. Rent a dedicated server myself. Unfortunately, I do not have extensive experience setting up and maintaining a secure and solid dedicated web server. I could probably Forrest Gump my way through it but there's a danger that my lack of experience will result in security and performance problems. If I go down this route I will need the assistance of an experienced community member who can spare some of their time to look after that side of things for me.
   
   
   
2. Find a community member who currently has spare bandwidth and CPU cycles on their dedicated server and is willing to host the site for a monthly fee that will go towards their hosting costs. This community member must have a good amount of experience configuring and maintaining a dedicated web server.
   
   
   
3. Approach the game networks and see about advertisement driven hosting. As much as I love the security of hosting on a games network, I'd prefer to stick with a non-advertisement driven site if possible.
   
   

Before the site went down it was running on the following kit:

• Intel Celeron 1.3GHz (the site was pushing this CPU to close to it's limits during peak hours)
  
• 512MB RAM
  
• 60GB (7200RPM) Hard Drive
  
• 700GB Monthly Transfer Allowance (the site was using ~5GB/day)
  
• Red Hat 7.2
  
• Latest PHP and MySQL
  
• Apache v1.3.27
  
• Shell access (very important)

If you are in the position to help me with any of these options then please get in touch. My old @swgcraft.com email address no longer works, for obvious reasons. You can get hold of me on a temporary email address I have setup: [email protected]

While this is a real pain in the ass, I am still in awe at the response I've seen in the official forums. Thanks for all the compliments - you guys rock!! :-)

Trokk

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