[5-31-17] Small Back End Update

[Roy 10,832 / 0]

Hello, it has been a while since I've made an update. I am just going to be giving a small update on the back end. I plan on making a large update addressing many issues in GFL and more in the near future.

 

Rebuilding Web Machine

After talking to @balon,  we decided that we're going to rebuild our web machine using faster software and better security. We're expecting our website to perform a lot faster after the rebuild!

 

As of right now, we have no ETA on when this will be done but I would expect sometime soon. We will also have to do a lot of testing. We'll also look into optimizing our MySQL machine to increase performance from MySQL.

 

P.S. We won't lose any data.

 

Linux Back End

Today, I started looking into Docker (what we planned on using for our Linux back end). However, @SwegBuster suggested a game server control panel to use and after looking into this specific panel, I like it a lot. The control panel is called Pterodactyl and supports Docker along with the games we currently have servers in. Pterodactyl looks very promising and there are only a couple features I would like implemented. With that said, the control panel is also 100% free and open source. Therefore, we may be able to code in our own features.

 

Pterodactyl's support team also looks great. Hopefully the features I suggested can eventually be implemented and we can finally put our European OVH machine to use! 

 

To conclude, we found a promising control panel that I believe we will be using in the future!

 

FastDL Machine

After we rebuild the web machine and setup Pterodactyl, @balon and I will start working on revamping the FastDL machine. No ETA on when this will be done but we plan on improving security and reducing the amount of space our FastDL uses.

 

External Backups

We do not have any external backups (excluding backups I make manually). @balon and I will work on setting up a system that automatically backs up all of our data externally (e.g. web machine,  game servers using OVH, etc).

 

Overall

This basically sums up our plan for the near future regarding the back end. There are also some changes we would like to make including our TeamSpeak 3 machine , GitLab machine, and more (mostly improving security and performance). Our main priority right now is the Linux back end and rebuilding our web machine.

 

Again, I plan on making a very large update sometime in the near future!

 

Thanks!

[Chormee 2,973 / 29,227]

Shut the fuck up Roy.

 

 

 

love you, great work

[annoying furry 6,300 / 63,955]

 

57 minutes ago, Roy said:

No ETA on when this will be done but we plan on improving security and reducing the amount of space our FastDL uses.

 

You could just remove all  failed map extractions.

 Maps, being pretty hefty, should be cleaned up, especially for servers that are no longer in operation, or that no longer use those maps.

 

An example of a nice waste of about 1,800 MBs:

 

 

Edited June 1, 2017 by Xy_

[Skittlez 721 / 11,279]

I have faith @Roy