The Grail Taverns disabled

by **Lord Arogandor** Fri Jan 22, 2021 8:57 am

Dear Seekers,

We are very sad to inform you that our Grail Taverns are currently disabled. This is done to prevent a suspension from the web-host:

InMotion wrote:Hello,

We've detected some extremely intensive processes coming from your account. Looking into this further, it looks as if you're utilizing either a shoutbox or live chat software on your site. We generally discourage this on both shared and VPS hosting platforms due to the cumulative CPU requirements.

In order for this software to appear to be a "live" chat, this requires frequent updates to be made to a program on your account (in some cases several times per second) for each person involved in the chat. During this, there may be database reads, writes, or other CPU intensive processes running. This ultimately can lead to a quick escalation of resources within a very short time depending on the amount of people using this chat system.

During this time the increased traffic may make your account appear to be under attack and could result in legitimate traffic being blocked by our server's firewall and if severe enough result in a suspension of your account. Our best recommendation would be to remove this component, scale it back considerably, or upgrade to a dedicated platform. Alternatively, there are many third-party services that offer embeddable chat applications where the actual process is run off site. Many of these can be found for free or at a low cost.

We hope that you'll be able to address this as quickly as possible; however, if the usage from your account becomes severe enough, we may need to suspend or have already suspended your account in order to prevent this from happening. If your account is currently suspended, please contact us to have the suspension lifted. Feel free to contact us with any further questions.

Best regards,

InMotion Hosting
https://www.inmotionhosting.com

We will try to find a solution for this problem without risking the entire game to be taken offline. This might take a couple of days or even weeks. We will add a script that allows you to drink beers from the tavern still so that you can keep your mood up. However buying beer for other Seekers or using the chat will not be available. As an alternative we gladly invite you to our discord server: https://discord.gg/XTV6Z5c

by **Lord Arogandor** Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:52 am

Dear Seekers,

We made some temporarily changes so that we can put back the tavern online.
Please keep in mind that we are looking still for a better and more permanent solution!

- Seekers can no longer offer a rounds of beer.
- The tavern refreshes less often and will be slower.
- The amount of Seekers that can enter the tavern at the same time is set to 20.
- Lurking Seekers (Seekers who are in the tavern but are not participating in any conversation) are no longer welcome*.

*As long we haven't found a permanent solution to make chat more smooth and as long we risk being "suspended" by our host, I really would appreciate if Seekers leave the tavern if they aren't actually there. The time-out function from the chat works only if the tab has been closed so when Seekers leave their chat tab open, they can stay until the reset without being actually there. Help saving our precious resources for now and use chat to communicate. Don't just be there.

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