Azhes

GAME SERVER ID#33070
 
Other issues for the last few days aside my server is now bouncing between "UNKNOWN", "STARTED AND READY", AND "LOADING"
 
It appears to be changing between these states as random. It doesn't matter if I am logged in, or trying, or not. As to be expected the server is showing listed in game then disappearing, then showing then disappearing.
 
Also the ping is jumping between 60 or so all the way to 200+.
 
Have been silent myself but this is almost a week and would like to play with some reliability or at least see my server running on your website with some stability.
 
Thank you.

Communication is my big issue. been down over 40 hours and going on 50 hours on my ticket. Not a word to me. They have our money and really don't care if we are pissed off. If they did they would say something more than they are.   
 
I would lot rather hear.. "Hey we though we could get 6 VMs on every machine but we can due to the High CPU usage of the new patch. We are now in the process of spinning up new VMs on more machines. This will only allow use to get about 60% of affected machines up and going. It will Tuesday or wednesday before new machines are installed and at that time we can get back to 100%. We will be happy to prorate your bill next month to compensate ot offer a refund if you wish to cancel your services." 
What we currently have is ... " Conan fried our machines and we will be up when we are up."

Some people drink the coolaid that others try and sell them.
 
I have several Conan dedicated servers. One of them was hosted by Survival Servers. This server has been up for 6 hours stable during the last 4 days.
 
My other servers hosted by other companies which I will not name here, are perfect. Do not crash, have no issues, no CPU spikes. I also have tools that monitor CPU activity for my other servers and I really do not see anything abnormal.
 
The issue is, other companies actually if you notice when you go to purchase a server, they will say, not available. Because they leave overhead of 20% so that their current customers are not impacted. Some companies will easily over commit and over deploy even though they really should not. They say things like, the customer deals with lag here and there its ok.
 
Survival Servers really has the wrong model and bad administration practices which lead to an entire breakdown of their service. They are one of the cheapest providers, I got a 60 slot server for 37$ a month, that is basically cheaper then all of the industry. Good thing about being cheap is, you get a lot of people requesting servers, the bad part is, you do not have the infrastructure to actually deal with the increased demand and overhead. And it takes days and even weeks to climb out of a provisioning hole, I know. I manage virtual infrastructure at a very large company.
 
Now take Conan Exiles, non-optimized alpha code, this requires even more resources, throw those servers on the same hosts with other servers like Ark, and now you have a real big problem, one service is affecting another service.
 
Reality is; Survival Servers is NOT fixing any bug with the Conan Exiles game or with their servers, maybe their custom management software needs a fix, but overall, they are ordering and provisioning new virtual hosts so they can deal with the expanded load, while doing damage control to keep whatever customers they have.
 
I think the estimated time Wednesday is the day they hope to have some new hosts online to balance out the load.
 
Another thing happened, they started throwing servers on the same IP space, this brought up a new Funcom Conan bug, with servers sharing the same IP space that had to be fixed. My other servers have dedicated IP, when I query my survival server, 4 other servers show up using my same IP space. This actually prevents you using DNS to your own server for short names.
 
My Survival Server has been in stopped state for 2 days. Nothing wrong with it. FTP data looks very normal. The ONLY reasons its not able to be started is because it is admin locked. If they start my server which is a 60 slot server, they feel it will crash the host, this is due to the fact that they overcommitted my host.

Game Server ID #: 34835
 
My server shows 'Unknown' under 'server details'. I have restarted this machine so many times. After what seems like ages, the machine comes back up. When I go to look for my ARK server, I cannot find it. I would like to know:
 
Will this be an ongoing issue with your company? -- Not maintaining your servers properly is down right bad business practice. Sure emergencies happen, but this seems to be more than what a patch did to the servers, which mind you ARK was not one of those affected by such patch.   Can we expect your website to be responsive when visiting it to access our Cpanel?  -- Bringing up servers is a very important task and the priority should, of course, be high, but when you have a slow website that takes three (3) minutes and seven (7) seconds to load just the home page, you know you have a huge problem. What really baffles me is how a hosting company cannot maintain a website that is responsive and accessible at all time.   Do you have plans to help address the lack of communication to your customers? -- This is a huge problem. You guys run a hosting company, when a server is down, your customers need to know what is going on and when to expect a fix. Not showing signs of life for hours at a time is unprofessional and amateur at best.  On your website, you have 'Lag-free, high-performance game server hosting Deploy a game server instantly and experience the Survival Servers difference!', what plans does your company have to help address this misleading and false advertising snippet on its website? -- It is very unethical and borderline illegal to misrepresent a product or servers that are based on misinformation and lies. As I and others have experienced, your servers are not 'Lag-Free' and you do not offer 'instant' anything. After I paid to rent a server from you, I had to wait 45  minutes or longer before I could start to use the services being paid for.   
So, when will we be able to have a working server again?

My server, like many others, has been having issues with stability and crashing. Currently the server is locked for staff intervention, presumably to resolve the issue. I don't mind the server being down for a while to fix things, I understand that Conan Exiles is an early access title, and may be partly to blame. I am not looking for a refund (yet), however I am looking for a bit of communication. I would normally consider myself a patient individual, but it is incredibly frustrating to be left completely in the dark.
 
If someone, could provide some form of ETA, more than "we're working on it", it would go a long way to alleviate some of the frustration.