Auto Restart or another idea

You! · February 6, 2021 at 12:17 PM

I would like to suggest we add an auto-restart system to the server. The reason being that between the hours of 7AM-1PM GMT, the server stops around every 20 minutes, even with no players on.

There is also an idea (by xPkz_) of granting certain trusted members of the Discord access to restart the server via the bot, but this idea comes with obvious issues that I'm sure we can all understand. However, I would like to open both of mine and Poke's idea to the community. This idea could also work if it were given to certain ex-admins, instead of OPs who were never admin.

The reason behind these two suggestions is because many of the admins that were available at this time of day were either suspended or removed a few days ago. This therefore left very few admins available. The ones that help us out the most are lyicx and nick, but they, like the other admins, also have daily lives to go to. It's getting to a frustrating point for both OPs and Admins. Therefore, I open both ideas above to the community.

elmon · February 6, 2021 at 12:43 PM

The functionality for auto-restarting is already in the bot but I believe wild1145 had an alternative solution

**wild1145** · February 6, 2021 at 12:46 PM

I'm hoping once we shift Freedom-01 to the new infrastructure a lot of those problems should go away.

I am also in the process (Though I've not had as much time as I'd have liked due to the new infrastructure) of re-writing the scripts to handle re-starts and stuff a bit better, and to let Spigot auto restart itself when it detects it's crashing.

IMHO the biggest issue I've observed is people chatting in server chat and not seeing / noticing / bothering to re-start the server when it's clearly offline. Due to the way the server works and fact that we're killing it too often as it is (And thus losing data like CoreProtect data that hasn't been written yet due to a shit plugin design) I don't really want us to be giving more people that ability, or trying to automate stuff that shouldn't be automated in this way.

You! · February 6, 2021 at 12:53 PM

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@wild1145#7475 IMHO the biggest issue I've observed is people chatting in server chat and not seeing / noticing / bothering to re-start the server when it's clearly offline.

I can see where you're coming from with this, but usually @elmon's bot doesn't give the warning 'Server has stopped' like it used to whenever the server crashed, so no one really notices it.

You! · February 6, 2021 at 1:00 PM

@elmon#7474 On what conditions does it initiate a restart?

**wild1145** · February 6, 2021 at 1:00 PM

@Ashaz#7476 The fact the chat dies should be the give away... I've seen it when there's been 10+ players on and chat suddenly drops and people just have ignored it... Hell people have been discussing stuff with people IG and just ignore it...

You! · February 6, 2021 at 1:07 PM

@wild1145#7479

Sometimes the chat just dies for no reason though, like at times there's no conversation at short whiles at a time

elmon · February 6, 2021 at 1:09 PM

@Ashaz#7478 If it attempts to query the server list and it doesn't get a response, either means the server is hanging or it's offline

You! · February 6, 2021 at 1:22 PM

@elmon#7481

So does that mean when the server is dead, if we run tf!list as an OP it should restart?

elmon · February 6, 2021 at 1:28 PM

@Ashaz#7482 No, it does it automatically, and it's toggled off anyway.

You! · February 6, 2021 at 1:32 PM

@elmon#7483 I see, would it be possible to switch it back on if the community voted for it?

**wild1145** · February 14, 2021 at 1:27 PM

This is going to be declined, we should really not be auto restarting the servers where we can help it, as there are often good reasons it's down, and the more often we kill it and force the process to end, the more times we run into issues with CoreProtect missing data... I'm looking at a few options that Spigot supports to re-jig the scripts but beyond that we should encourage players to temporarily join the other server while we try to gracefully shut down the server that has crashed / gone down.

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