seaweeduk

doh I'm dumb and have now read the server status page :) hope the downtime ends soon

Glad you're making the switch too dude, hosting with dayz.st is epic in comparison even if you only manage to get in to one of the other data centres and transfer later....

Thought I'd repost this from a few pages back for anyone stupid enough to still be considering staying with this host moving to dayz.st was the best thing I ever did, and that was BEFORE they terminated my contract early for informing other forum users of just how crap of a service they provide. Get out whilst you still can before the one man running this show gives up and does one with all your money.

THIS My paypal dispute was ended by SS of course, apparently 20 out of 30 days hosting is fine. All they care about is money not customers, good job I can continue to tell people the truth about their service.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/88632-dayzst-30mo-for-50-slot-useu-servers-1744-instant-setup-custom-panel-live-map-tool-privatecommunity-hives-taviana-rmod/page__st__1060#entry1040250

Dayz.st

Yeah the availability changes all the time and you can switch your server instantly to another data centre with the built in control panel, I've found their support to be excellent maybe drop them a pm on the forums and see if they can notify you when a slot is available on a London host. I bet you don't notice any issues using the Amsterdam host they have anyway, latency isn't a big issue with ARMA we used to use a US host and never had any problems with a 130ms ping.

Day.st can't say enough good words about them if you want to test performance see my signature. You can see some of the custom features we have in place already if you login. We're also planning some events to start building the community up in our hive as it's new. When you pick a host avoid SurvivalServers at all costs we had a month of hell hosting with them, you can see the details in their forum thread.

So repairing any single vehicle part fixes everything else on a vehicle, we've also seen choppers completely repair themselves without any interaction. Can someone let me know if these are dayz bugs or bliss ones and if there's anything we can do to sort it.

Add them to your vehicles table with a loadout of choice example: class_name: TKBasicAmmunitionBox_EP1 limit min : 0 limit_max 1 inventory: [[["BAF_LRR_scoped","glock17_EP1","HandGrenade_west"],[1,2,4]],[["5Rnd_86x70_L115A1","17Rnd_9x19_glock17"],[10,5]],[[],[]]] Then use day.st's tool to create a "custom" vehicle spawn point for the classname TKBasicAmmunitionBox_EP1 in this example. Run the vehicle spawn script to get your new boxes. You can tweak the percentage chances for each spawn point in the world_vehicles table. As others have mentioned now though it's not ideal because the crates refill contents on server restart, they also need to be manually deleted to be removed and respawned. I'm going to probably going to attempt to pursue a solution using tents instead unless changing mission files gets easier on dayz.st.

Bollocks yeah you're right it's on restart. Think I'll just have to at least delete them before the server restarts and people can wait for the server to respawn some more whenever the vehicle spawn script is run. I have another solution in mind using tents instead, guess they will update inventory correctly then too. Means a bit more work though, wish the modification of mission files was supported so I could just do all this in the crash site or even the carepackage/wreck loot.

I've been having good results placing a variety of weapons crates containing non standard weapons into my vehicles table and spawning them using defined spawn points only problem I've noticed is the crates inventory doesn't ever seem to update once a weapon has been taken. Anyone know if this is just the way weapons crates always work or have I got the inventory line in the db slightly wrong. I don't want to have to use cars instead to distribute the loot unless I really have to.

We've noticed issues with vehicles particularly choppers repairing themselves, nothing like what we were seeing on our old host but it does still seem to happen sometimes. Is this a known 1.7.4.4 issue?

If I want to try a new map or a few days is the process of backing my DB up so I can't switch back when I change back to my original map automated or do I need to do that manually?

It's fine I'll just run it from a scheduled task and a php script that way I can log output locally too and monitor what was deleted I was being dumb earlier :-) If anyone else wants to experiment you literally just need to place some of the weapons crates into the vehicles table with an inventory of your choice. Then use the dayz.st tool to place custom spawn points for the crate class names you have picked. I recommend looking at the min and max spawn amounts when adding them to vehicles. I'm Hoping to use RAND () for inventorys but I've yet to test. Only real problem I've had is accuracy of placement in the map tool that's why I'm going to modify the tool which uses the 3d editor to create my weapon crate spawns.

It's the rocket skin

Thanks for making me realise I was being a dumb too stoned lol, I'll just set up a cron task on my machine I run linux when I'm not gaming. I'll also have to look into local backups. I'm already using the building importer on my linux box too I plan to modify it for the custom weapon crates.

Awesome thanks man, I've got a lot of testing to do first but I will drop you guys an email when I get it all ready to go. Another question I noticed that if I use place vehicle to place a vehicle it also creates a spawn point for that vehicle. If I then remove the spawn point the vehicle itself is removed too. Is it not possible to place vehicles without creating spawns?

ersan191 I have a question, now I have random spawns for my weapon crates containing gear would it be possible for you to run a timed SQL query on my database for me. I'll let you know the query it won't be anything intensive, I just want to delete the crate vehicles every couple of days so new ones with more loot can spawn, preferably before your vehicle spawn script does it's thing. To my knowledge there's not a way of doing this in phpmyadmin unless you think there is? I know I can do it myself daily but I like to automate things if I can :)

If you're talking about dedicated hosting I'd be intrigued to hear about this too, if VPS hosting was possible for dayz I'd love to just do everything myself.

I'm with Day.st with a UK private hive, we were with SS prior to this for a month (our experiences with them are documented in their thread) 37.130.229.228:2402 is the address if you'd like to test performance we're in the London data centre I would highly recommend Dayz.st I just hope the massive influx of users they are going to be getting from pissed off SS customers doesn't affect their service. Their control panel couldn't be more user friendly and their extra features actually work unlike SS.

private hives usually dont have as many, white-listed ones almost definitely don't have many hackers the popular private hives are great but hard to find a free slot in check out BMRF and zombies.nu

Here's my final review on the service I received from this "company" taken from another thread but I thought I'd post it here for SEO purposes it pretty much covers everything. SS before you have a go at me for bashing your company on a forum like you have done to everyone else to bad mouth you. I will remind you that this is a public forum for people to post their opinions if you disagree with them then try constructing an argument with evidence as to why they are wrong. Or you could just terminate that persons contract.... My first period of downtime occurred Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 around 11 AM (I also had two days of downtime whilst they were setting the server up), the server was dead completely with no TCAdmin response. Here's the reply from SS 2 days later So he never even bothers to tell me why the host was completely down for two days. His comment about DayZTools refers to the fact I had also let them know my server had never managed to successfully spawn vehicles using the script we were being charged $5 a month for. His response was not true the tool was still not "fixed" and still did not spawn vehicles without erroring on the chernarus db, and so the tickets continued. Eventually one week later to the original support ticket I was told this The tool was indeed now finally managing to spawn vehicles however we still suffered the exact problems DayZGeneration has posted about. Vehicles would spawn fully repaired when defined not to and would automatically repair when in use. Much of this is due to SS' inability to deploy bliss and dayz updates in a timely manner. Then of course there's the update they tried to deploy 2 days ago now, they finally did this over a week after all the other server hosts "so they could do it without any bugs". Read through the thread to see if they managed that, I wouldn't be surprised if they broke every single private hive server in the process. I have records of all my support tickets if anyone actually thinks I was saying anything that was offensive or untrue to them. My forum posts are available for all to see in their thread. I never implied I deserved to be treated any differently to anyone else, I did however let them know we were all being treated like crap. So they cancelled my service for complaining, well thats not technically true they did nothing to my account it still all works (I had terminated payment but service was contracted to continue till the 4th). What I think they have actually done is decided not to fix my server because they don't like me telling the truth about them in a public forum. All my login details still work fine I just can't do anything with the server in TCAdmin because it wont fully load, just like it was after applying the patch. Their one man team of admins has so many hundreds of servers which he has now broken he doesn't have the time to fix mine after I've been telling others of the quality of his service and because I have already terminated my contract. I didn't see one post in their thread from a private owner who actually managed to deploy the 1.7.4.4 update without breaking his server. Should the server remain in this state until the 4th of December that will make the total number of days they managed to provide a server I could even connect to 20 out of the 30 I paid for. The server was out of date and virtually unplayable due to all the bugs from out of date bliss and dayz code and non functioning admin tools for all of those days. This companies "tools" consist of a simple webpage which just runs a few database queries (most of which other providers offer for free). Their "map" tool is just an out of date copy of BlissAdmin which again doesn't fully function. I urge anyone who gets given one of their inevitable $5 off your next month vouchers to save your time and stress and move to another host. You can see the track record for these guys in their thread, I'll let you decide if you think I was treated fairly.

It works dude! You just need to make sure you have the entry in your vehicle table with a loadout defined for that crate class before you place the spawn points using the dayz.st tool. Not sure if it'll spawn the items if you spawn it automatically in the tool but they definitely do if you let the game randomly spawn them. I'm going to set up a bunch of different crate classes with different loadouts for each. Then you just need to make spawn points for each crate class and tweak its probability of spawning in the db. I will also come up with some SQL code to hopefully automate the removal of empty/old crates ready to be replaced with fresh ones. I'll probably make a thread if I get everything working in a nice noob friendly way.

Here's some more info on my troubles with these idiots My first period of downtime occurred Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 around 11 AM (I also had two days of downtime whilst they were setting the server up), the server was dead completely with no TCAdmin response. Here's the reply from SS 2 days later So he never even bothers to tell me why the host was completely down for two days. His comment about DayZTools refers to the fact I had also let them know my server had never managed to successfully spawn vehicles using the script we were being charged $5 a month for. His response was not true the tool was still not "fixed" and still did not spawn vehicles without erroring on the chernarus db, and so the tickets continued. Eventually one week later to the original support ticket I was told this The tool was indeed now finally managing to spawn vehicles however we still suffered the exact problems DayZGeneration has posted about. Vehicles would spawn fully repaired when defined not to and would automatically repair when in use. Much of this is due to SS' inability to deploy bliss and dayz updates in a timely manner. Then of course there's the update they tried to deploy 2 days ago now, they finally did this over a week after all the other server hosts "so they could do it without any bugs". Read through the SS thread to see if they managed that, I wouldn't be surprised if they broke every single server in the process. I have records of all my support tickets if anyone actually thinks I was saying anything that was offensive or untrue to them. My forum posts are available for all to see in their thread. I never implied I deserved to be treated any differently to anyone else, I did however let them know we were all being treated like crap. So they cancelled my service for complaining, well thats not technically true they did nothing to my account it still all works (I had terminated payment but service was contracted to continue till the 4th). What I think they have actually done is decided not to fix my server because they don't like me telling the truth about them in a public forum. All my login details still work fine I just can't do anything with the server in TCAdmin because it wont fully load, just like it was after applying the patch. Their one man team of admins has so many hundreds of servers which he has now broken he doesn't have the time to fix mine after I've been telling others of the quality of his service and because I have already terminated my contract. I didn't see one post in their thread from a private owner who actually managed to deploy the 1.7.4.4 update without breaking his server. Should the server remain in this state until the 4th of December that will make the total number of days they managed to provide a server I could even connect to 20 out of the 30 I paid for. The server was out of date and virtually unplayable due to all the bugs from out of date bliss and dayz code and non functioning admin tools for all of those days. This companies "tools" consist of a simple webpage which just runs a few database queries (most of which other providers offer for free). Their "map" tool is just an out of date copy of BlissAdmin which again doesn't fully function. I urge anyone who gets given one of their inevitable $5 off your next month vouchers to save your time and stress and move to another host. You can see the track record for these guys in their thread, I'll let you decide if you think I was treated fairly.