A new server for the GG.ST IRC Network has been added, this time in Germany. The goal is to replace the french server (at OVH) which network has been really bad lately (at least one down a week).
The server is already online in the irc.gg.st pool, and will be used to monitor stability of the new server. If things are stable, the French server will be removed from the pool (before August 15th) and taken offline a few days later.
You can track the operation online.
Mar 11
Closing an IRC server is always difficult as people tend to connect directly to the server’s IP, and anyway just changing the dns won’t make people reconnect immediatly. Many people stay connected for days, if not for weeks.
That’s why closing a server must be done at least 2 weeks before. We first remove the server from the DNS pool, then wait one week, then start sending notices and private messages to remaining people to notify them.
Right now we are at the “one week” mark. You can see the user count has decreased quite a lot.
Most of the users were first directed to our second european node, however the new US node is now open and people are being sent there too. I will implement support for GeoIP in SimpleDNSd soon, so people will be directed to either server based on informations available from their DNS server (the ISP dns server tend to be in the same country as the user is, for others like google’s 8.8.8.8 I really don’t know how things will end).
Sep 28
This might not need a post by itself, but since I need a new post to check how refresh works, here it is.
Basically, GG.ST finally got news displayed on main page. What’s more, as I’m too lazy to make a backoffice, I’m just “importing” news from WordPress using some kind of engine written in PHP, which can do much more than that… Well, stay tuned, as I’m going to provide more news soon!
Mar 20
As of today, it’s exactly 90 days before I get in Japan. Exciting, but before anything it’s tiring. Still a lot of things need to be done (stopping contracts, selling stuff, finding a way to send the stuff I keep to Japan, etc) and it’s not going to get easier as the date gets close.
Anyway I’ll also introduce a little too I made for the IRC Network: a status image. You just use http://gg.st/status/default/nickname.png in an image and get something nice like:
As you can probably see, it says if I’m online/away/offline, handles nickname groups (with IRC services) and is realtime.
