Distant Worlds II Event Servers offline after the first jump of Distant Worlds 2. Come on Frontier!

[Wizz15]

And yet, if you look at the AWS Re:invent presentation Frontier gave, they make a point about how Scalable it;s supposed to be, using AWS Elastic components.

Another fine line with very little substance it seems...

Do you know how AWS works? If so you probably know not every piece of AWS infrastructure will scale on the fly. Things such as databases (RDS) won't scale based on traffic. If those transaction servers are running on RDS, then this is probably what failed.

If its about server (EC2) instances, they probably hit some maximum limit they have setup. AWS doesn't let you scale indefinitely, as this would probably make you bankrupt before an attack was over. And this was basically a DDOS attack.

Too many transactions at once (the jumps) and after that fell over it became a DDOS on the login system. I honestly don't think they could have done much about this, there are always limits somewhere you can hit somehow even with the best planning.

Respect to the people fixing this on the weekend.

 

[Scotiauk]

I managed to connect on Solo. Tried to jump and BANG - "cannot connect to servers" and kicked back out. lol

 

[DAKTARI]

It's my Fallout 76 nightmare come to past!!!

 

[AcademicDust894]

So this was all caused by the explorer nerds going on a field trip?

Thats what happens when we swarm.

 

[JesusRocks1988]

Did Dav manage to get out of the server room before it was vaporised?

 

[Kekkonshiki]

I'M IN!!!!!!!

 

[Simpleye]

Someone on DW2 Discord said they are heading to FDev with some repair limpets, so all well soon

 

[sollisb]

Do you know how AWS works? If so you probably know not every piece of AWS infrastructure will scale on the fly. Things such as databases (RDS) won't scale based on traffic. If those transaction servers are running on RDS, then this is probably what failed.

If its about server (EC2) instances, they probably hit some maximum limit they have setup. AWS doesn't let you scale indefinitely, as this would probably make you bankrupt before an attack was over. And this was basically a DDOS attack.

Too many transactions at once (the jumps) and after that fell over it became a DDOS on the login system. I honestly don't think they could have done much about this, there are always limits somewhere you can hit somehow even with the best planning.

Respect to the people fixing this on the weekend.

Not in any way denying what you say; But knowing this, why didn't Frontier post a warning? They've had in on their front page fro how long?

The fact is it is not 'Massive' multiplayer, it's more like 'a few at a time player'.

 

[Spaceman Si]

I'm 2 miles from the Amazon Servers here in Dublin, want me to drive over and 'turn them off and on' ?

I'm only a little further away - I can pop down the N7 and give them a kick as well

I'm fascinated with "server turbulence"; I assume everyone has returned to their seat with their seat-belt on, and there is no more standing or walking around? . If we ever have a live outage again, I'm going to call it "server turbulence"

 

[Sunyavadin]

Good job, everyone. This was..... quite the start to the expedition.

 

[cavaleiroerrante]

Berrou...

 

[Siobhan]

I'm only a little further away - I can pop down the N7 and give them a kick as well

I'm fascinated with "server turbulence"; I assume everyone has returned to their seat with their seat-belt on, and there is no more standing or walking around? . If we ever have a live outage again, I'm going to call it "server turbulence"

More like server flatulence tbh

 

[Deleted member 110222]

This is one of the few communities who consider breaking the game for literally everyone to be positive.

 

[Zieman]

The fact is it is not 'Massive' multiplayer, it's more like 'a few at a time player'.

Lol, yeah!
Not "MMO", but "AFAATPO". [haha]

 

[LeoBartlet]

Who's acid trip was it to start DW2 on a Sunday? A day notorious for years for server downtime/slowdown.

 

[sollisb]

I'm only a little further away - I can pop down the N7 and give them a kick as well

I'm fascinated with "server turbulence"; I assume everyone has returned to their seat with their seat-belt on, and there is no more standing or walking around? . If we ever have a live outage again, I'm going to call it "server turbulence"

Yeh, let's try that one with the boss the next time there's an issue..

 

[Leadfoot]

I understand from another thread that there were a number of gankers in the departure system.
Revenge on those gankers. You take US down? We take YOU ALL DOWN.

 

[Brett C]

Who's acid trip was it to start DW2 on a Sunday? A day notorious for years for server downtime/slowdown.

Fortunately, some of us are in office (or in my case, my virtual office), keeping an eye on things.

 

[Aiden Hawkins]

cmon even the Heat bug is still a big deal

But jeah, Frontier is "currently working on it"

I think, that must be some sort of time shifting or so, they have since 4 months every day the same day.

 

[Ian Skippy]

Who's acid trip was it to start DW2 on a Sunday? A day notorious for years for server downtime/slowdown.

Tuesday afternoon would have been less problematic. Then again, most people are at work then.