FED2 MOVES TO THE CLOUD
by Hazed
It’s finally happened! The new virtual server in the cloud has been set up and Fed2 is running on it, using data taken from yesterday’s backup (Saturday).
Right now, you can log onto the new version of the game using the numeric address:
178.250.53.192
Just replace the System Name in your front-end with that string of numbers.
To get to the website on the new server, point your browser to the numeric address.
The DNS records, which are the internet’s address books, will be changed in a couple of hours to point to the new address instead of the old one, but it may take your ISP a while to catch up with the change so depending on how often they update their version of the DNS records, you may have to keep on using the numeric address for a day or two. After that, fed2.ibgames.net will send you to the right place.
Meanwhile, we will keep the old version of Fed2, on the old server, running and will put a message on the noticeboard telling people to go to the new version. But whatever happens in that version will NOT BE SAVED.
Later this week we’ll close down the old server and that version of Fed2 will vanish.
Apart from the pause while DNS records catch up, you shouldn’t notice anything different about the new version - the fact that it’s on a server in the cloud should be transparent to you. You can carry on making groats as before.
