Good Morning or Evening, wherever you are
(I don't know myself anymore)
Since not all visitors of the website ffxivhunt.com were able to see the update there, join the discord or follow me on Twitter @miingno, I though I will quickly make a post here as well.
Since last Sunday there is a sudden increase in traffic happening, as well as a high volume on requests on the server to calculate hunt maps. Due to that, the server is struggling with the load and constantly crashing, making the website currently unavailable.
There are a few possibilities why this is happening but none of them could be verified as the root cause yet:
1. There might be a 3rd party developer out there, trying to "use" the calculations for a different tool but ends up "abusing" the scrips due to wrong programming, which ends up in the constant crashing.
The amount of script usage has however slowed down significantly since Sunday and the server is still struggling which suggests, that it might not be this.
Whichever it ends up being (or a combination or something else), I am looking into any and all leads and am trying to get the service up and running again as quickly as possible.
I am sorry for the long downtime and really hope I can soon find a solution. If I need to buy another server, then so be it.
I will keep posting updates on the mentioned channels up there.
Miingno Star, Balmung
a.k.a. Andy
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(I don't know myself anymore)
Since not all visitors of the website ffxivhunt.com were able to see the update there, join the discord or follow me on Twitter @miingno, I though I will quickly make a post here as well.
Since last Sunday there is a sudden increase in traffic happening, as well as a high volume on requests on the server to calculate hunt maps. Due to that, the server is struggling with the load and constantly crashing, making the website currently unavailable.
There are a few possibilities why this is happening but none of them could be verified as the root cause yet:
1. There might be a 3rd party developer out there, trying to "use" the calculations for a different tool but ends up "abusing" the scrips due to wrong programming, which ends up in the constant crashing.
The amount of script usage has however slowed down significantly since Sunday and the server is still struggling which suggests, that it might not be this.
There could simply be an error with a scrip on the website. However, all the "difficult" map calculations have not been altered for a month and they worked absolutely fine during the launch of Dawntrail when there was actually five times the number of calculations happening. So I think, my scripts should be okay.
There simply is an issue with the server. The webhoster however claims there isn't. I am in contact with the webhoster but they sadly don't answer me as quickly as I would like and any small adjustment takes an awful lot of time.
Whichever it ends up being (or a combination or something else), I am looking into any and all leads and am trying to get the service up and running again as quickly as possible.
I am sorry for the long downtime and really hope I can soon find a solution. If I need to buy another server, then so be it.
I will keep posting updates on the mentioned channels up there.
Miingno Star, Balmung
a.k.a. Andy
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