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  2. Posted · Edited by jnas

    Just so you guys all know, I now have confirmation that this isnt due to my own incompetence (I was actually worried about this myself)

     

    Vilayer just informed me that another customer on my node had faulty mods, creating error logs that filled their entire disk and therefore disabled my service and somehow emptied a bunch of my config files.

     

    It takes them 16 hours to tell me this. 24/7 support

     

    Also the problem isn't even fixed. The ticket response also says "your server is now working" when it very clearly isn't - some other config files must've been screwed because players spawn in debug with no gear...

     

    And this chaps, is why you don't use vilayer.

     

     

    I assume I'll be waiting another 1x hours for them to figure out that it's actually not working, eventually I'll prolly get something like last time

     

    "Yeah jnas, unfortunately, if you remember, you modified the database a little bit because the default cleanup routines we gave you for tents/vehicles/etc - yeah they don't actually work so you had to make your own - however now we won't give you any support because modifying the database is not something we support - so go figure it out yourself"

     

    "Wait, it was working perfectly right before your other customer managed to disable my service for 16 hours?"

    "Yea, it was, sorry bruh"

  3. Posted

    Hey jnas,

     

    Sorry to hear about the server. I really wanted to bring some friends back to the game and check out your server. Do you have a rough idea on when (if at all) it will be up again? So like, less than a week? More than a week?

     

    Get back to me whenever man, no hurry.

     

    Hey bud, glad you enjoyed.

     

    I'm currently still without a response from Vilayer, so I have no clue when it might be back up.

     

    If Vilayer sort out this issue the server will be back up (no idea if this will happen, their 24/7 support only runs a few hours a day I think) then it will go down again in a week or so when I don't pay the 2nd month's invoice.

     

    Tomorrow I'll be looking at new providers, if I get one sorted I'll make a new post here.

     

    PS: I was worried that maybe something is filling up the server hard drive and causing the "hard disk full" errors I'm getting - however, earlier today I backed up the entire server and database and the entire thing comes to less than 700meg so apparently Vilayer DayZ mod servers have <1gig of hard disk

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  5. Posted · Edited by jnas

    Hey guys,

     

    I'm still awaiting even a reply from Vilayer's "24/7 support".

     

    After a ridiculous amount of hassle with these people to run the most basic, unmodded server possible - it is with a heavy heart that I'm going to be taking it down.

     

    I really don't like putting my name on a service with such poor support, and having problems that Vilayer assure me they can deal with, but never actually dealing with them, so I never have any answers for my players on when anything will get fixed.

     

    It took Vilayer literally four days and 25 ticket posts back and forth to even get the service turned on when I initially provisioned it (they quote one hour for this), dealing with support techs who ask me "why have you modified your database and messed up all the tables" when I hadn't even logged into the database, ever - it took literally 72 hours and 25 back and forths before they realised that I hadn't even touched the DB and their installers were completely screwed.

     

    They've said to me 2 weeks ago that the 1.8.6.1 patch is being "worked on" and I still have no update or ETA. They don't even let me know what is going on or where they are at in terms of this update.

     

    This is in addition to the majority of their default SQL cleanup routines being so old they don't work at all. Vehicle cleanup, tent cleanup, barbed wire etc - nope. Moving dead characters from the main character_data table - nope. Gotta do that yourself. One support tech flat out told me to steer well clear of the majority of their routines. Argh.

     

    Also - they advertise "TS Support" - in that you can log onto their TS server to get support - but the TS3 support server they advertise (for all games, not just DayZ mod) has been offline since January.

     

    Don't use Vilayer for dayzmod game servers. They are absolutely not managed or supported to anything even close to what they advertise.

     

    I've backed up the entire DB (this means characters, vehicles, bases etc) and am looking for a new provider, however pickings are slim in Australia. Any suggestions welcome! Keep an eye on this thread and with some luck I'll get it back up.

     

    Thanks for all the fish!!

     

    PS: Edited to make more civil. This whole Vilayer mess got me a little wound up :D

  6. Posted

    Sorry duder :(

     

    Quick update for everybody:

     

    I purged a bunch of old logs and everything started working again (after I setup the empty config files to work again) but 3 hours later the same problem started occuring and I got "no disk space remains" errors.

     

    This being a Vanilla server, I've never uploaded anything special to the server - it's just pure vanilla - I've no idea what could be using up the disk space. I've gone through the entire server and DB looking for bloated logs, unnecessary duplicates or other possible causes for this problem but can't find anything.

     

    In any case Vilayer advertise no storage limit for this service so I'm a little stumped. Awaiting their response.

     

    Really sorry guys.

  7. Posted

    It seems my lovely provider Vilayer have once again caused major havoc and my server is once again down.

     

    When I woke up this morning my config files were empty, trying to set them back again gives me "no more hard disk space" errors in my control panel.

     

    Vilayer Game Servers. FTW.

     

    I've logged super urgent tickets regarding this, hopefully it won't take long to get back up.

     

    Thanks for your patience.

  12. Posted · Edited by jnas

    In standard Vanilla, vehicle component damage is not random, unless the server has a custom pMain script.

     

    pMain (the sql routine responsible for spawning new vehicles) does have a random component for hull damage which is easily enabled/disabled, but this is NOT applied to component/part damage - the default pMain gives all newly spawned vehicles specific component damage according to the default hitpoints in the "object_spawn" table.

     

    Basically if a server is running the standard pMain, vehicle component damage is not random.

     

    However it's super easy to set low-tier vehicles to 50% default component damage across the board and low fuel, so they will be driveable but their components can't be salvaged, meaning the low level vehicles can't be farmed for easy access to parts. They also won't be able to suffer much damage before requiring repair.

     

    This is what I do on AU36 for almost all ground vehicles.

  14. Posted

    Adding spawn locations yourself is super easy. eg if you want a new SUV location, make a duplicate row of one of your existing spawn locations, change the UID to something random, and set a new worldspace. You can set worldspace easily and accurately by running your own toon to where you want the vehicle to spawn, logging out, then copying your toon's worldspace to the new spawn row.

  18. Posted

    Setting the vehicle max number won't do anything past about 70, or something like that. If you want more vehicles you need to increase the max number of each particular vehicle and then also ensure you've added enough spawn locations if necessary.

     

    Also pretty sure this sub-forum is for advertising servers and illustrating the features of said server. Probably want to put this thread in the server owners subforum.

  19. Posted · Edited by jnas

    Turns out manually updating is fine, just takes some messing around and light foreplay. Actually took me a solid 10 hours because I didn't know wtf I was doing, but I do now.

     

    If anybody wants a hand manually upgrading their own vanilla vilayer game server shoot me a PM bruh.

  21. Posted

    Vilayer has just informed me that they still have no ETA on an update. I'm right now having a crack at doing it myself, but due to their custom coding and pbo packing there's not a lot of resources on the net to help me figure it out. If anybody has any advice I'm all ears!

     

    Apologies chaps. I didn't realise that managed servers have such poor support when I started this server. I'm looking at taking the server elsewhere if anybody has any suggestions!

  23. Posted

    I didn't realise that you were watching my IP but nonetheless I was still getting a missing description file error. I understand that I was initially banned on an account (due to my CD-Key being stolen - I know it sounds like I am just trying to make up something now but I am not) but that was not why I thought I was banned. I'm sorry that I did not give you all the details prior to being banned from your server. If the ban is to stay in place so be it, but I honestly thought I got the admin ban due to somebody thinking that I was removing files from my game to reach some sort of advantage.

     

    Regards, Cvet.

     

    Sent you a PM

  24. Posted

    Howdy

     

    Anybody know whether manually updating my vilayer (non-dedicated) server to 1.8.6.1 is a good idea or not? My server has gone insane quiet since steam pushed through 1.8.6.1, I asked vilayer for an ETA a few days ago but no response yet.

     

    Just wondering if anybody has any experience doing manual vanilla updates on Vilayer managed servers.

     

    J

  25. Posted

    Heya Cvet,

     

    No, your initial connect failed, as you well know, because you connected with a globally banned account. You didn't get any description file missing error, you got a Battleye msg stating that your account is globally banned.

     

    What you then did was switch to a clean account and new name before reconnecting but I was watching at the time and noticed your IP.

     

    I have a policy where if a previously banned player is completely honest and straightup with me about their previous bannings and wants to play my server I let them, but keep a very close eye on them. If a banned player makes their first contact with nonsense stories I don't.

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