Future of RogueBasin

[george]

Not sure, but it seems like this might be the best way to catch a Roguebasin admin's attention, let me know if there's something better...

A few of us at the Doryen forums are working on a libtcod + Python tutorial at Roguebasin, and we'd really like the code colorizer GeSHi extension added if that's possible:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

[Slash]

I will install it next weekend..

[george]

Just checking in since we noticed it wasn't up -- any problems with installation?

[jaydg]

If your free time is limited, Slash, my offer to aid you on maintaining RogueBasin is still valid.

The performance of the site has become very bad recently. Sometimes it refuses to answer.. Perhaps Björn should give the hoster a call?

[george]

Agreed -- Slash, you've been busy lately with dev work, maybe others could help with Roguebasin? We'd still like that code highlighter extension.

[Slash]

This is done.

Thanks for the offer, I will have it in mind!

For now, these are the pending issues (from http://slashie.net/mantis/ )

          0000685Two pages cannot be displayed and searching on them causes a crash.
          0000686 Non Ascii characters turn into gibberish

[george]

thanks!

[Slash]

np, sorry for the time it took

I also contacted Björn about the performance problem, but he seems to be away... let's wait for his reply.

[jaydg]

Another issue with the hosting shows up from time to time recently:

RogueBasin has a problem

Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Can't contact the database server: User rogueliked_db3 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections (mysql1.scorpionshops.com))

[jaydg]

Yet another issue - the infamous error 500:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@roguelikedevelopment.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g Server at roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org Port 80

[Slash]

I will let Björn know about it... I can't contact the hosting crew

[Ex]

Roguebasin has been slow for a while now for me, almost like it's undergoing a DDoS attack. Hasn't affected me much though, I'll just wait a half an hour for pages to load

[Z]

I also could not reach Roguebasin recently... good that IRLDb survived

[Slash]

I also could not reach Roguebasin recently... good that IRLDb survived

We should really automatize a backup process, since it gets overwritten everytime...

Probably something that sends an email with the DB once a week to us both, or posts it somewhere...

[Z]

I think we could make a copy of the result HTML file sometimes (e.g. each week). And even make these backup files available, e.g. at http://www.roguetemple.com/irldb/backup/2010-01-21.html

I think this would be safe (and possibly also have other uses?) unless the entire Roguetemple breaks down.