Why is it taking so long, though? If all that's needed is for someone to push the restart button, how can the server be down for half a day or more at a time? Aren't there multiple developers with access? Maybe I've got it all wrong.

Its free lol look at all these poeple complaing about a free service, imo u all should just shut up and enjoy the services the team puts on for us, they have lives and familys too, they dont get paid for their services here, half the time I bet they pay out of there own pocket, so we can enjoy playing, they are in the middle of getting it fixed ( let me remind u guys again that this free and and the poeple who run it dont get paid ) Using their OWN time that they dont get PAID for to FIX the login server so we can play for FREE.

See trevious post
 

I could be wrong but I think trevious just said that they are in the middle of handing over the server. He said this just a copule of posts before yours in the very same thread. Does that answer the question?

I am using minilogin lol

and guess what since i started i havent had one second of downtime either. And yeah we are complaining because and hers the kicker we are basicly forced into using the public ls or minilogin which has user limits and authetication limits.

Since we are forced to use it we should atleast be able to log into our servers on it, there is no reason whatsoever that any server should be down for more then a couple hours, the server is professionally hosted and one would think that people would be able to get in touch with the person in charge of keeping it running and they could get it fixed with a simple call to tech support.

Couple that with the fact this is a daily recurring issue and yeah it gets really old really quickly to say not be able to test edits to your server because you cant log into it. Or for instance listen to all your players griping at you because the ls is down which you have no control over?

The fact is the LS is broken yeah the server it resides on is old but the server itself is broken its outdated apparently cause noone really maintains it and thus is wide open to attacks that if it was maintained properly wouldnt be an issue.

But instead we have the admin here asking us to foot the bill for a new server and why? a real private ls will never be released in binary or source form by them we will have no control over the server we are being asked to foot the bill for and ontop of that there is no guarentee whatsoever that getting new shiney hardware will fix the problem.

If its attacks its really simple go to your iptables file and BLOCK All the ips at the server level the attacks originate from not hard to do at all... or heres a thought FIX THE CODE So the attacks arent an issue anymore

guys, the fixes are already enroute. the best course of action is to just let them know when there's an issue, and be patient.

I don't know what more you could ask. Prior to lately this sort of talk used to be very hush hush or ban happy, they are being VERY open with us and letting us know exactly what's going on.

just show a little patience. thank you devs for all that you are dealing with.

I too am still having this problem, however when I created a new login server account I was able to login with no problems.

again?why does this always happen on weekend?

I don't think the problem gives a shit about which times we'd like to play at

I just logged out of the PEQ server .... cries, something told me not to do it.

Idea
 

Image / Devnoob has you proposed giving the LS code to the eqemu team and working with them in fixing your LS and developing a way of having a redundancy system for both LS? All administrative functions for the LS server are to my knowledge. Then if the main LS fails again, we can simply chance the LS code in eqhosts.txt?

How far is the Image /devnoob server from being complete?

Yes I have proposed providing it, I have not heard back about it.

Redundancy-like system we have been talking about but nothing really decided on that.

Since this is kinda a ranty thread, and "donations" are brought up - I will cast an opinion once again that Donations are evil. People who donate, normally do so thinking they now have an excuse to demand progress, because they cannot comprehend the donation is not for paying server devs to work harder, but for financing the hardware and web presence to support their addictions.

No devs get "paid" for this stuff. So saying "I donated, so I expect it to work" just shows immaturity and lack of common sense.

thats why there should be an anon donation

it still acts wired one minute i can get in and next it tells me my passwords and logins are incorrect. anways I am not complaining just curious when I should be able to play again but if no one knows right now that's fine.

As far as I know, the current 0.7.0 login server has always supported a slave login server option but that relies on connecting to the database remotely and getting additional hardware. The current operation is based on running the project with as little monetary cost as possible, which is going to change soon hopefully.