Private Login Server

Sakrateri · #1 03-30-2009, 12:57 AM

This is Great Stuff guys ! thanks ALOT ! I do have just one question however.... If your website ever goes down does this stop working??

Thanks again !

**trevius** · #2 03-30-2009, 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sakrateri

This is Great Stuff guys ! thanks ALOT ! I do have just one question however.... If your website ever goes down does this stop working??

Thanks again !

It is my understanding that there is a fairly long grace period that their status server can be down before it would effect the private Login Servers (something like 6 hours I think). That should allow for any type of maintance with minimum to no impact to Private Login Servers. But, if their site was ever taken offline permanently, it would currently render all Private Login Servers using this software completely useless. That is the only negative thing about this atm, and is one thing I think should be an optional setting on the Private Login Servers for the admins to decide if they want to send statuses or not. I am sure some people don't want their server on any kind of list as many just want to use something like that for close friends and family only and don't want random people joining.

Though, after re-reading the initial post in this thread, it sounds like missing the 6 hour check-in might not render it completely unusable. It sounds like it might just go back to restricting how many users you can have on the server. Unclear on that atm.

Sakrateri · #3 03-30-2009, 01:36 AM

That's what I thought... Image is there a way to change this so we don't have to have our servers check in ?

I do not want to sound ungrateful but for some reason and I don't know why but for as long as this emulator has been around the people with the login server source has found it necessary to keep us all in binds to run things their way. I really do appreciate the Login but yet again feel I am being held captive if I use it.

I really do not think that everyone having a truly free loginserver for themselves is going to crash this community. Besides the login server there is TONS of work that needs to be done on the emulator itself and this is the ONLY place for people to come together and get that done..

**AndMetal** · #4 03-30-2009, 04:20 AM

1 recommendation from me: dynamically create an eqhost.txt file to make it easier to switch between servers:

PHP Code:


			
<?php



header('Content-Description: File Transfer');

header('Content-Type: text/plain');

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=eqhost.txt');

ob_clean();

flush();



echo "[LoginServer]\r\n";

echo "#" . $name . "\r\n";

echo "Host=" . $host . ":" . $port . "\r\n\r\n";



?>

Which could result in this:

Code:

[LoginServer]
#Cripps Nug Blazers
Host=68.4.48.127:5999

image · #5 03-30-2009, 07:03 AM

I am not going to restore the restrictions of user limits; the server would have to be down for 6 hours total after losing connection. This will be reconsidered later on but not right now.

image · #6 03-30-2009, 08:58 AM

If it ever came to me going poof I'd give it out, either way I want it the way it is now for testing reasons. If you really get bugged that much you can disassemble it. But in the end won't make much difference

Aldest · #7 04-03-2009, 10:07 AM

Thank you for putting this together! We've been using leaf and mini-login but it isn't a stellar solution.

I need to ask this though. I'm, we'll say, of average competency when it comes to this.

If I used PEQ installer and I'm running mini-login can I "upgrade" to this service or do I need to do a new install without the mini-login option and essentially "install" this fresh?