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Post by Zaphod Beeblbrox on Apr 15, 2010 15:32:04 GMT
The fightingfantasy.org play system has been suspended due to server overload. At this time I have no idea what caused this failure, but it was pretty catastrophic. Until I have discovered the cause and taken measures to prevent this happening again, adventures will not be playable in any respect.
If you have material on the site you wish to save, the editor functions are still fully operable and you will be able to back up and save to your local machine any adventures you were creating.
I am very sorry for any trouble, upset or inconvenience this may cause. If you wish to contact me regarding this failure please contact me at beeblbrox@fightingfantasy.org
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Post by Zaphod Beeblbrox on Apr 28, 2010 18:31:06 GMT
Believe I have identified the most likely cause of the overload. However am debating whether to delay re-activating the play system until I have moved site to new hosting (where I have more control over the server issues possibly), as if I am wrong about the cause I'm not sure the existing hosts would be too lenient about a recurrence of the server overload. I do not want to see anybodys work get deleted if my server account gets permanently shut down.
For those interested in what I believe to be the cause I think the <INCLUDE> tag may have been abused (accidentally or intentionally) to make a recursive call to a document/set of documents - e.g. including itself, causing an infinite execution of the main play script. Much as I was aware of the possibility of this eventuality I expected anybody who knew of that possibility wouldn't do it.
So if I'm correct about that being the cause either I didn't consider the possibility of amateur error, or I was naive enough to think nobody would maliciously attempt to freeze the site, being an amateur hobby as it is. Which is naive as it has been maliciously attacked before (piped chmod command in a username). Would be nice to think we live in a world where you could put your kit car in the front garden without fear of some tit throwing paint over it for kicks, but clearly there are just too many tits in the world with nothing better to do.
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Post by benjiboy on Aug 15, 2010 10:30:23 GMT
I only just found your site. It looked very promising. I guess though from the dates on the messages above that it you've either hit an impassable problem or have moved on to other things?
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Post by Zaphod Beeblbrox on Oct 4, 2010 20:51:07 GMT
Hi, sorry to have taken so long to reply.
No problem is impassable for this project, all that currently seems impassable is my real life problems!
The system is back online, with a small bodgefix that will (hopefully) prevent the system from overloading servers if my theory about how it happened to begin with is correct.
I've also streamlined the signup form.
Have taken Outsider out of publication for the time being (probably years the rate development is taking on this site) as it is so far from being completely playable as to really be unplayable.
Cannot comment on development progress likelihoods, though I still have plenty of aspirations for the sites functionality. As well as a makeover being desperately needed.
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