Thanks Mose Hansen!
 

I know Esben Mose Hansen says he will not be reading the forum anymore, but I want to give my full thanks for all the effort that went into his server. I have hosted a few games myself over a LAN, and I know just how difficult it is to do. All the time and effort he went into to create that splendid server was time well spent for the dominions community. I mean, who says Esben can have a real life anyway???? Is that allowed or something? I didn't know...

With the loss of Norfleet and his occasional hosting and now the loss of Esben, I think games are going to be a lot less frequent now. Only Sheap is left as a host for big MP games that I know of.

I was wondering if anyone knows all the lessons learned from Esben that he did to make his server the best Dom server that ever was. Maybe someone can pick it up. Gandalf? Anybody?

So, a hearty thanks Esben Mose Hansen for all your time and effort. Even if you don't read this post, I had to say it anyway!

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Agreed, his service was excellent.

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I add myself to this post.
There both Reverend and Reverend Zombie who owns a server, but none for what I know have a such friendly interface as Mosehansen server (omg I forgot my turn!!!)

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W00t.

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Many thanks Ebsen!

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Esben Mose Hansen definetly did a great job. He kindof went a different direction with his server software than I was going to go (early on conversations) but in the race to make it really happen he definetly slammed me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

However, if his decision is based on time constrictions then Im not eager to jump in there and fill in. Especially since I havent bothered to learn MySQL or Perl yet. But if anyone has an old computer in the closet they would like to set this up on then I will give them all the support I can. I might host a few games, and continue playing with the idea of a sysadmin Version of a webserver.

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I add my thanks as well - we'll miss you Esben!

- Thufir

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Thanks Esben! I'm glad you created and provided this nice multi server service.

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and please remember that Esben has said before that he would gladly provide the code for his dominions server if anyone else wanted to set one up. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that...

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Its available for download from his site, in the LINKS section. I have a copy of it also.

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Could someone post what is needed for something like this?
A program, a computer, trickering the firewall? Something else?

Would a computer that is too slow to run Dominions II (battles) be enough to act as a server, old 200Mhz one as an example? Maybe not running as many games as Mosehansen's server does/did, but how many could it have running then? Would having the computer on be enough, or would the manager have to tinker the games all the time?

I don't have a free computer anymore, and it might have been too slow, but having it all up on a stickie or maybe on Illwinter's pages might eventually make someone do something...

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From the README file of the Dom2Host package::
REQUIREMENTS:
mysql
Dominions II
Perl
Apache

Note that it does not say it must be Linux or Windows. As far as I know both will work altho I know MEH used Linux so some of the scripts might need small modifications.

Generally thats a true statement. It actually takes about 1/10th the computer to server something as it does to create it. Most of the hard work for Dominions is done by your home machine. The hosting might not be FAST but if its running at midnight on a dedicated machine then who cares anyway? Believe it or not (and this IS my area) your home computer can probably replace your internet sevice providor.

Ahhhh now there is the kicker. If you look at the MEH server thread I think you will get an idea of what that would be like.

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[quote]
Gandalf Parker said:
From the README file of the Dom2Host package::
REQUIREMENTS:
mysql
Dominions II
Perl
Apache

Note that it does not say it must be Linux or Windows. As far as I know both will work altho I know MEH used Linux so some of the scripts might need small modifications.

Generally thats a true statement. It actually takes about 1/10th the computer to server something as it does to create it. Most of the hard work for Dominions is done by your home machine. The hosting might not be FAST but if its running at midnight on a dedicated machine then who cares anyway? Believe it or not (and this IS my area) your home computer can probably replace your internet sevice providor.

Ahhhh now there is the kicker. If you look at the MEH server thread I think you will get an idea of what that would be like.

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Bye, and thanks for all the thank yous. Maybe I'll stop in when Dom3 hit the shelves http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Sheap's server is in fact still open for business, regardless of the fact that Sheap's work/school is massively interfering with more important aspects of life (like dom2!!).

I am currently administering the games on his server and can help people who are currently running them and/or wish to start new ones. I believe there are currently 2-3 slots open there but sheap has not installed the 2.14 patch as of yet. He told me he'd get to it this week, so if you are want to host there, just send me a PM.

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Hey folks,

since the other thread is locked I'm going to reply here. I recently bought a new server that would be more than adequate to run Mose's code. It's a 2.4GHz, 512MB, 320GB RAID5, dyndnsed box running Debian stable. I would be willing to setup the frontend but my time is very sparse at the moment. I'm going to contact Mose about how much work this is to set up...

Rock on,

Michael