{"id":319,"date":"2011-08-26T18:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2011-08-26T18:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T17:27:26","slug":"knights-moved-to-new-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/26\/knights-moved-to-new-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights moved to new server"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently I’m paying about \u00a312\/month for VPS hosting. For this money, I get access to a Linux machine which is permanently connected to the Internet, and I can run basically whatever programs I want on it. I’ve been using this to run the Knights website and game server.<\/p>\n

However, Knights uses relatively few resources so I thought I could save a bit of money by running the server myself, at home. So I bought one of these:<\/p>\n

\"pogoplug\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a Pogoplug<\/a>. It’s marketed as a file sharing device, but can easily be modified<\/a> to run Linux off of a USB stick. It’s cheap (mine was about \u00a350 from Amazon), silent, and uses very little power (about 5W) so can be left on all the time at very little cost.<\/p>\n

It does have only have 256 M of RAM, and a relatively slow processor (it’s an ARM chip, running at about 1 GHz I think), but this is plenty enough to run the Knights server.<\/p>\n

The only other downside is the colour :), but since it’s shoved behind a desk in the spare room, nobody is going to notice.<\/p>\n

Migrating everything over to the new server was a bit of a pain, but everything should be up and running again now. The Trac has moved to a new URL (http:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/trac\/<\/a>), and you may notice a different address on the Server List page, but everything else should be the same as before.<\/p>\n

As an aside, I have set up a Subversion repository, so you can now browse through the source code on the Trac site.<\/p>\n

As for Knights itself: I am working on a new release (018), which should be done in about 2 weeks time (hopefully). This will mostly be a bug fix release, but will include one new feature which is a Random Quest button. I’ll post a bit more about that next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently I’m paying about \u00a312\/month for VPS hosting. For this money, I get access to a Linux machine which is permanently connected to the Internet, and I can run basically whatever programs I want on it. I’ve been using this to run the Knights website and game server. However, Knights uses relatively few resources so … Continue reading Knights moved to new server<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightsgame.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}