TOPIC: Server Happy End English

Sadly we have been affected on a Server outage. This wasn’t the fault of our Server Provider and we solved the problem together.

With the last Server reorganization last year we changed to a new and fast model. Together with that our new Page went online and i planned for the future. I rented two Failover-IP Addresses (81.30.148.29 and 81.30.148.30) on which the gameservers are running. These Failover IP-Addresses are the prerequisites for the next step we take now. Since the server downtime it is now time for make our plan come true. We have now a second root server on which the two failover IPs also take place. So the Services are now high available because we can dynamically route and load-balance the failover IPs to the root servers (Failover-Cluster with optional Load-Balancing).
It is also mentionable that our servers will be placed in different segments on the data centre.
After all these works are done, our reliability will increase to theoretical 100 %.
Now i want to give you additional infos about the Failover Cluster.

This picture shows the previous functionality of our two Failover-IP Addresses together with our Root server:



If all the work is done, we can dynamically switch the Failover-IPs between the two Root Servers and serve the identical services there. This is possible because the servers are mirrored.

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LilBenji, Uwe

We have since implemented many stages of the project and I would like to take this opportunity to thank LilBenji for his dedicated work.
So we could even share also handle many other tasks in parallel.
THX LilBenji!

Uwe

yes thx ben always the struggling with time

Thank's Lil'Ben ^^