我們的新伺服器

2013 年 9 月 19 日更新：www.kamremake.com 已完成轉移到新主機！如果您對該網站有任何問題，請告訴我們。社群 TeamSpeak 伺服器 歐盟卡姆茨 也可用。

自專案開始以來，《KaM Remake》的發展超出了我們的預期。多人線上玩家數量經常達到120 人以上的峰值。在7 月和8 月，我們的網站www.kamremake.com 傳輸了約2 TB 的流量（見右圖），並且它只是我們的下載鏡像之一，大多數下載發生在粉絲提供的其他鏡像上。另一方面，我們的多人遊戲主伺服器維護遊戲伺服器列表，每月為來自約20,000 個唯一IP 位址的近200 萬個單獨請求（平均每分鐘40 個）提供服務（請參閱下面的統計資料） 。

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 歐盟卡姆茨
• 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)
• 社群 TeamSpeak 伺服器 歐盟卡姆茨 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.