If you have noticed, Eve-Kill went out last weekend, after a few huddles they managed to get back on track, still some funding is needed and Karbowiak mentioned the need to buy new hardware to keep it going.
While I have no stake at Eve-Kill, I do have a ton of hatred for battle-clinic – their killboard is utter shit, loaded with click-pits and a lot of stuff the community doesn’t need. More importantly they do not share their API with the rest of the community. That’s why you see a niftier integration between EVE-Kill sites like DOTLAN, doctored BRs at dog-net’s site and other applications like EveWho. Differently from Battle Clinic I do praise Eve-Kill focus to keep the information they gather open and available to the community and is pretty much the reason an relaying this pledge to keep it going.
Eve-Kill Pledge: Sharing is Caring.
EVE-KILL is arguably the largest killboard in EVE, and we daily serve several thousand killmail hungry pilots, who both want to see who their friends and enemies killed while they were away.
We are currently hosting 4663 active killboards (Pilot: 1599 Corp: 2579 Alliance: 485) and 14.515.048 killmails.Lately however, this community of murderers have been disturbed, and downright plagued by terrible luck, and downright shitty hardware.
The reason behind the downtimes we have had as of late, has been multiple, it started out with a hard drive dying, and a RAID controller failing to use the mirror drive, which it should have.
Then became a tale of the worlds slowest hard drive replacement, and finally a success story, after Beansman spent hours trying to figure out how to turn the working mirror, into a single drive, that would mount.
All the while this was happening, we was busy with smacking ourselves in the head over the fact our backup scripts had failed about two weeks before.Luckily it all came back up, without any data lost, but the downtime had already cost us a weekend.
However, the bad luck didn’t end there, no, not even close. Now the controller decided to start a new war, something it liked to call “The timeout war”. Simply put, at a random time it will suddenly stop responding to the requests of the operating system, few moments later the operating system dumps the mounted array, and bam, all virtual machines grind to a halt.
At which point we have to rescan the system to get it to remount the drives, so the virtual machines returns to a functional state. The problem however, is that this requires direct intervention, and can’t easily be scripted away.So this leaves us with three options.
First option is living with it, and staying where we are for another 2-3 months till we scrape together enough money to buy our own hardware.Second option is switching to a different host, we already have one lined up which has made us a great offer for a server, but we will be bound to them for the next 12 months, which isn’t ideal.
Third option is to do a donation drive, and hope we can get the money that way.
We obviously picked the third option.
This said, we are not gonna put the burden of funding this entirely on you, our users – we are throwing all the money we have saved, plus money from our own pockets into it. Which nets us just shy of 3000 USD, sadly however, the server cost is upwards of 8000 USD, depending on the hardware we pick. However, for now we have set the donation goal at 4000 USD, should we blow past that, then we’re golden in terms of all the extras we are considering.
If you wish to contribute you can do it using the pledgie linked here.
- R
I approve!
And will try my best to answer questions that is posted.
Do you take ISKs donations, too?
Nope, isk won't really help us pay the server
But thanks for asking (and offering if you we're asking with that in mind)
I do!
You first get rid of the mind-blowingly stupid "Jester's Trek" blogs and other painful reads before you get a single ISK from me!
WOW a talking douche…
Using someone's request for help to mention that you'd take donations, too, is only greedy and shameless. Being a douche is great!
Have you given any consideration to Amazon Web Services? Punch in some numbers on their calculator for their EC2 and S3 services and I think you'll be very surprised at the cost. calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
We have, but compared to the cost of just outright buying the hardware, it's too expensive.
I'll make sure Russian speaking community will read this article as well by translating and posting it on proper forums.
Much appreciated <3
what does a ruble convert to now 1/10th a cent?
Hope they can keep this up now.<img src="s01.flagcounter.com/count/7uR/bg=FFFFFF/txt=FFFFFF/border=FFFFFF/columns=1/maxflags=1/viewers=3/labels=0/" alt="." width="1" border="0" /><img src="s01.flagcounter.com/count/H9Y2/bg=FFFFFF/txt=FFFFFF/border=FFFFFF/columns=1/maxflags=1/viewers=3/labels=0/" alt="." width="1" border="0" />
Are you using WD drives for the array?? The have a "feature" called time limited error correction that will cause a drive to drop out of an array. ITS CRAP. The only real purpose is to get you to buy their enterprise drives. If you have WD drives, switch to something without this feature, like any other manufacturer.
We're using Hitachi enterprise drives, that work fine in raid setups
We want to use Seagate Constellation ES enterprise drives in our own server however.
As for WD drives, yes, TLER is missing from their Green and Black drives, the Red series and Enterprise series has TLER however.
CCP should sling a sly couple grand, nobody will know!
C'mon Fozzie… You got a job now…
You know how many E-peens that would literally fall off if eve-kill went down for good?
SAVE EVE-KILL!
Donated, twice. Guys, pleeeease help Eve's definitely most used third party tool…
<3 thanks m8
If there was ever a useful site considering EVE this is it and i am donating what i can.
good luck to karbowiak and the crew who are working on this and hope you guys can continue.
Much appreciated <3
Why no thread about this on the ccp eve online forums?
We're awaiting CCP to say yay or nay on it, but their legal team is.. slow..
"Luckily it all came back up, without any data lost" I went from over 6k kills to 4300 last night and now sit at 3100ish. You might want to check your data. That being said, I will donate,
Can't complain about the best thing out there! Eve-kill plus dog-net is only thing in eve.
Yeah, I am also missing kills form 14 months or so
No mails are lost, it's our stats gethering script that fails.
Sadly whenever the DB dies, it's in the middle of gathering up stats, and sadly all of a sudden it looks like mails have been lost.
I wish I had keep their IRC info. I would be happy to donate what I can. I would assume 99% of eve players have spent many many hours looking at kills on their Killboard. Battleclinic is a joke. They also give great free support for people that run their own EDK to pull old kills. Anybody and Everybody should be more the willing to donate what they can Esp. the ones who pull old kills from the eve killboard to their EDK.
irc.coldfront.net
channel #esc
can i donate ISK
ISK = Video card = $
Isk doesn't really help us, but thanks for the sentiment
sorry I dont understand at all this funding shit and problems… There are PLENTY of hosting services that offer unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains etc for a decent amoun per month, infact very cheaply.t. If its evekills prerogative to host it on their own dedicated servers then they are dumb….
keep deleting this EN24 you dicks….
check out webhostingpad $6.99 unlimited everything
oh and eve-kill stop trying scam cash outta people!
If we went with such a host, we would have a page load time of about 5 minutes.
Tho, thinking of it, we might be booted from them within the first hour, for overloading their mysql servers.. lol
I have a site in one of those, but MAN THEY ARE SLOW. And I'm only using basic stuff like mysql, phpbb, etc. I don't even want to think how c-r-a-w-l-i-n-g s-l-o-w they would be on something like eve-kill…
I think you guys have no idea what "unlimited hosting" actually means. This is big boy stuff.
good luck to karbowiak and the crew who are working on this and hope you guys can continue.