Notre nouveau serveur

MISE À JOUR 19 septembre 2013: Le transfert de www.kamremake.com vers le nouvel hébergeur est terminé ! Si vous rencontrez des problèmes avec le site, veuillez nous en informer. Le serveur communautaire TeamSpeak kamts.eu est également disponible.

Depuis le début du projet, KaM Remake a connu une croissance au-delà de nos attentes. Le nombre de joueurs en ligne en multijoueur culmine régulièrement à plus de 120. En juillet et en août, notre site Web www.kamremake.com a transféré environ 2 téraoctets de trafic (voir graphique à droite), et ce n'est qu'un de nos miroirs de téléchargement, la majorité des téléchargements se font sur d'autres miroirs fournis par les fans. D'autre part, notre serveur maître multijoueur qui gère la liste des serveurs de jeux traite près de 2 millions de requêtes individuelles par mois (en moyenne 40 par minute) provenant d'environ 20 000 adresses IP uniques (voir statistiques ci-dessous).

When we set up these servers we did not anticipate that a remake of an old game like Knights and Merchants would become so popular. The current servers we use are shared hosts designed for hosting small websites, and are often not adequate for the amount of traffic we receive. Over the past few years we have had a number of issues with our servers resulting in downtime due to overloading or issues with the hosting provider. Another problem is that our master server is hosted in Australia (Lewin’s home country) which is on the opposite side of the world to Europe where the majority of our players live, meaning refreshing the server list in game is very slow for these players.

We now have a solution to these problems. In cooperation with knightsandmerchants.net (the international KaM forum and fan community) we have rented a virtual private server (VPS) in the Netherlands which now hosts the following services:

• KaM Remake multiplayer master server
• knightsandmerchants.net
• www.kamremake.com
• KaM community TeamSpeak server at kamts.eu
• Other services we might want in the future such as multiplayer accounts or global in-game chat

We would like to thank Tom (T*AnTi-V!RuZz) the administrator of knightsandmerchants.net for all his hard work and support in organising this.

How does this affect you?
A virtual private server gives us more control, reliability and resources than our previous servers. Here are some changes you may notice:

• This website will load faster and downloads will be faster
• The multiplayer server list in-game will load faster
• The website and multiplayer master server will be more reliable (less downtime/bugs)
• Serveur communautaire TeamSpeak kamts.eu available
• More services may be available in the future such as multiplayer accounts if we decide to implement that

How can you help?
The server cost us money to rent. We would appreciate if you can contribute to help keep the server running and support future development of the KaM Remake. Visit our donations page:

Let us know what you think in the comments 🙂
Lewin and Krom.