TimSad wrote:I must know what just happened to our server there. Are you guys able to find out? Server crash or Blaze?
There aren't any sudden drops for your machine, looking at the graph and your other servers it seems to be a specific to one of your servers.
Yeah, musta been a rare game server crash then, huh? It was at the end of a Talah Market round. My team was just about to lose - but I swear I didn't have anything to do with the crash.
TimSad wrote:Looks like my Aftermath server crashed again? Is there a new crash for Aftermath 64p servers now?
Good news is that your machine is not showing a sudden drop, your server is though. The latest patch from EA fixed most of the exploits but I'm sure there are still some floating around.
Have you tried disabling Procon and PBBans to see if that helps at all? Since the latest patch dropped it may be worth a try to see if it has caused any other issues.
@Kraze^NFo> Juski has a very valid point
@Juski> Got my new signature, thanks!
@Kraze^NFo> Out of context!
@Juski> Doesn't matter!
@Juski> You said I had a valid point! You can't take it back now! It's out there!
I've said this previously as well, but if you need us to directly check out something about your server(s), you need to contact us directly through the control panel. Make sure to also keep an eye on the events log there, as we'll post about any attacks that we are already aware of.
I've seen some attacks today against BF3 servers. I also suspect that there's something going on with PB. But that's just speaking in generalities -- I'd need to look at your server individually to give you targeted information.
My servers musta been dumped 2-3 times during the middle of the night. I got up a couple times to get em going just to find that my connection to the server had been lost and the servers empty. Good job, Blaze! I'm not even gonna make an effort to get em going today. I'm taking a day off of this s***.
A Blaze problem caused servers everywhere to drop their players at 10pm PST last night. I don't see other global Blaze problems during the night, but there are always some Blaze issues to individual servers (some due to attacks), as well as server crashes =\. I sent some additional information about recent crashes to DICE a few days ago.
It may be time that I retire all but 1 or 2 of my servers. I'm racking up a big electric bill here at home just trying to get my servers repopulated after DDoSes, crashes, and Blazes. I use two computers at home to accomplish this but things have been so out of hand lately, I just don't know if I can do it anymore.
On top of the electric bill, I have to pay $300+/mo for all of these servers that keep getting emptied out multiple times a day by one of the above mentioned. I really can't be putting all my time and money into something that is recurrent like this.
I'm good at getting my servers going but since I can't always be doing this they will likely remain empty which is really sad, I know... I run good servers but players seem to be selfish these days and only go to the servers that are already well populated even if it is a crap server. They go for numbers over quality.
It really sucks that this is the reality of it because I would love to continue running these well populated and fun servers but it's only because of myself - my time and effort - that they continue to be populated. Fact is, I can't be spending this kind of money on servers that would be empty always if I weren't able to dedicate so much of my own personal time to them. Does anyone have any suggestions or feedback for me? Should I go through with decreasing our server numbers down to 1 or 2 or should I take an alternate approach here?
Edge100x wrote:A Blaze problem caused servers everywhere to drop their players at 10pm PST last night. I don't see other global Blaze problems during the night, but there are always some Blaze issues to individual servers (some due to attacks), as well as server crashes =\. I sent some additional information about recent crashes to DICE a few days ago.
Awesome job at getting that info to DICE. Yeah, I was around last night when all servers booted every single player out and wouldn't allow them back in. It was about a few minutes later we were able to join servers again and I got all of mine going full.
I guess I can also wait it out a month tops to see if Blaze gets any better? Aside from Blaze, there do seem to be some rare server crashes occurring. Those seem to be the main hindrances as of now. Those DDoSes done by some random asshats were a problem as well but I think NFO has got good control over that now. Still, I would like some input from any others around here. What would you do if you were me?
Looking at gametracker, it seems to have just happened again to my Aftermath server. You can always count on at least one player dump a day. Sucks to have been right now too because I'm currently at work and obviously can't seed from here and get it going again.
Looks like all my servers eventually crashed and/or got Blazed today 2 times or more today. NFO, we gotta do something about this. Can you please help me out here? It's pointless to run servers if this is constantly happening...
Your events log will explain more about one of the issues you had today.
As mentioned previously you would need to open a request directed at John for him to examine your server specifically to see why they are dropping so frequently.
@Kraze^NFo> Juski has a very valid point
@Juski> Got my new signature, thanks!
@Kraze^NFo> Out of context!
@Juski> Doesn't matter!
@Juski> You said I had a valid point! You can't take it back now! It's out there!
kraze wrote:Your events log will explain more about one of the issues you had today.
As mentioned previously you would need to open a request directed at John for him to examine your server specifically to see why they are dropping so frequently.
Oh, is this specific to my servers? I thought when Blaze has a problem with my servers or anyone else's, it also includes a bigger subgroup of other BF3 servers in the general area (LA in the case of my servers).
kraze wrote:Your events log will explain more about one of the issues you had today.
As mentioned previously you would need to open a request directed at John for him to examine your server specifically to see why they are dropping so frequently.
Oh, is this specific to my servers? I thought when Blaze has a problem with my servers or anyone else's, it also includes a bigger subgroup of other BF3 servers in the general area (LA in the case of my servers).
In most cases, yes but you seem to be one of the ones who is seeing constant problems on a daily basis. If you open a request John can check the server logs and confirm if it was a Blaze issue.
@Kraze^NFo> Juski has a very valid point
@Juski> Got my new signature, thanks!
@Kraze^NFo> Out of context!
@Juski> Doesn't matter!
@Juski> You said I had a valid point! You can't take it back now! It's out there!
