Yep got that script! It has helped me immensely although I am still working on getting c10t working, though thats for another thread!
So a bit about EC2, and my experience, my solutions, and me wondering if there is a better way (If I need to learn something to do it, I will learn).
Firstly, my player base (people at my university) are all in the same time zone, so at night I turn off the server to save costs. Every restart causes my external IP to change so I gave everyone a dyndns host name and then I update that IP manually every time it restarts. I could probably get an automatic updater for that... but thats low priority at the moment. Is there a better way?
Secondly, once every two weeks we all get together and play. I found it was too much for the mini server so I moved it up to a small server. The way I did it was by creating a zip archive of the server, moving it off, terminating, starting a new server, loading, decompressing and I'm done. Is there a better way? I read your changing from a small to mini server, but did not understand it sadly. Does that retain data? Is switching the server type something I can do often? (like say twice a week) without issue? During the week I barely cap over 4 users. On the weekend I hit maybe 16...
One thing I would love is something like a wake on lan feature... I have another web server, and I would love If i could have my users click a button to turn on the server, and then the server could turn itself off after Xtime inactive.... again to mitigate some of the cost. A 24/7 available server without being on 24/7.
I signed up for EC2 but when I navigate to the Amazon EC2 tab, it "Looks like I don't have an EC2 account" however I signed up for one 6 hours ago. If i click "sign up for Amazon EC2" it tells me I am signed up and can start using it :tongue.gif:
Looking forward to how this service works out, lucky me i'm the first one to hit a snag in this process it seams. I'm going to contact amazon support if its not fixed in the morning.
I would love to see more comments on what plan you went with, your player base, and how things are going.
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So i got it working! few questions... can anyone point me to a good command reference for... bash? i think...? also it seems if I close my putty session, the server shuts down... any way to run the server as a service? I basically just need to be pointed to some good reading material to figure this out. Im not sure on the terminology of what to look up :tongue.gif:
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So a bit about EC2, and my experience, my solutions, and me wondering if there is a better way (If I need to learn something to do it, I will learn).
Firstly, my player base (people at my university) are all in the same time zone, so at night I turn off the server to save costs. Every restart causes my external IP to change so I gave everyone a dyndns host name and then I update that IP manually every time it restarts. I could probably get an automatic updater for that... but thats low priority at the moment. Is there a better way?
Secondly, once every two weeks we all get together and play. I found it was too much for the mini server so I moved it up to a small server. The way I did it was by creating a zip archive of the server, moving it off, terminating, starting a new server, loading, decompressing and I'm done. Is there a better way? I read your changing from a small to mini server, but did not understand it sadly. Does that retain data? Is switching the server type something I can do often? (like say twice a week) without issue? During the week I barely cap over 4 users. On the weekend I hit maybe 16...
One thing I would love is something like a wake on lan feature... I have another web server, and I would love If i could have my users click a button to turn on the server, and then the server could turn itself off after Xtime inactive.... again to mitigate some of the cost. A 24/7 available server without being on 24/7.
Back to my research! Thank you all for your help!
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[ec2-user@domU-12-31-39-0F-7C-25 ~]$ screen
-bash: screen: command not found
[ec2-user@domU-12-31-39-0F-7C-25 ~]$
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Looking forward to how this service works out, lucky me i'm the first one to hit a snag in this process it seams. I'm going to contact amazon support if its not fixed in the morning.
I would love to see more comments on what plan you went with, your player base, and how things are going.
EDIT:
So i got it working! few questions... can anyone point me to a good command reference for... bash? i think...? also it seems if I close my putty session, the server shuts down... any way to run the server as a service? I basically just need to be pointed to some good reading material to figure this out. Im not sure on the terminology of what to look up :tongue.gif: