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Hyde:
Well, the person who maintains the account for us says that the ISP doesn't offer a 2nd IP option (they offer failover but not 2 permanently assigned static IPs). However they might in the future so that would still be an interesting possibility.

My other option would be:
step 1) get a very cheap (like $5/10 month) web host on a provider with a good pipe and running Linux with SSH

step 2) set up a 2nd account on the current bot server that connects to the web host via SSH

step 3) tunnel that 2nd account over SSH and port forward to FC

Since database and http queries would remain on the main server we would only be proxying the actual chat between the host and FC, which is relatively low bandwidth.

(We pay alot more than that for the level of service we get on the main server so it would still save alot).

Any holes in that idea?

Pharexys:
Hyde, just buy a VPS like i did for Elitenet now, You can buy additional ips for 1/2 bucks per month, so aint that much imo :D
You have access to anything since they give you "root", I pay even less then AO account on this one, and i got 20g space and 2 ips :D
I just run bots on it, so i dont need anything else :D

Hyde:

--- Quote from: Pharexys on January 23, 2009, 11:42:30 pm ---Hyde, just buy a VPS like i did for Elitenet now, You can buy additional ips for 1/2 bucks per month, so aint that much imo :D
You have access to anything since they give you "root", I pay even less then AO account on this one, and i got 20g space and 2 ips :D
I just run bots on it, so i dont need anything else :D

--- End quote ---

That would work if we didn't have bots that Chris wants to have 99% uptime on. We run Clanside1 off this server as well as an orgbot that has to handle some huge traffic. And we're planning some very serious additions to both Clanside1 and similar services.

And with instanced APF and soon instanced Pande, plus the other fields, we're planning some public raidbots that will likely double the load. All things that having to deal with the hassles of a SLA on a VPS make it so that a VPS isn't good enough for all the stuff we're running/planning. It is good enough to proxy some traffic though, which is basically what I was talking about.

I agree that the dedicated server we have should be able to have multiple IPs but ... they don't agree :)

Pharexys:
to complicated imo, well try to stick to 18-19, or ask if you want, i could host 1-2 bots if you really cant and they are needed.

Hyde:

--- Quote from: Pharexys on January 24, 2009, 02:16:25 am ---to complicated imo, well try to stick to 18-19, or ask if you want, i could host 1-2 bots if you really cant and they are needed.

--- End quote ---

What is complicated about setting up a SSH tunnel? Its easy as pie, I'm just not sure if it will work and was wondering if someone tried it. I'll likely test it soon if no answer.

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