While I wish I could claim I took my site down for a week in protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills, the actual cause was way crappier. My provider did a kernel update that killed every Xen server on the host. User data had to be migrated off, the host reimaged, then all data migrated back over an apparently very small wire. The total downtime was about 5 full days.
Ironically the server was accessible just in time for me to black out my site (redirect) in protest of SOPA...
Sometimes I think I like building stuff more than updating the site - so I thought I'd update on what I've been up to 'building' wise..
I modified the Urban Terror source code to add in realistic bot pings (C++), which turned out very well..
I'm avoiding bloatware for my game server, prefering instead to write the features and tools I need in a lighter, more efficient way if possible.
I put the following Python script together to send Rcon admin messages to the game at regular intervals, which appear as "console" messages. I'm using it with an Urban Terror server but it should work for any game using Rcon and can be easily adapted / expanded on.
