[TANKS] Re: Calling All Nit-Pickers
Since you ask Frank I have wondered for some time if SV 014 had re-skipped across the Atlantic . It sure hasn't been seen in any UK battles for the last 7 years. Doug Conn and Justice Henderson appear to have been playing with it - http://www.rctankcombat.com/statistics/AssetHistory.cgi?type=Support%20Vehicleid=SV014 As per Joe and Steve (and even Bill), thanks for all your work keeping the website going. Neil On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 2:25:34 PM UTC-8, Frank Pittelli wrote: If you're one of those people who are easily irritated by small inconsistencies or who just love to find mistakes with other people's work, I've got the perfect job for you. After only 15 years of continuous duty, the server that hosts the R/C Tank Combat website is being retired shortly. But fear not, all of the glorious information on the web site has been ported to a new server in the cloud that will hopefully provide reliable service for another 15 years. Most of the textual pages were simply copied to the new site and should be relatively error free. However, all of the database-related pages, including asset albums, asset history, operator history, battle scores and totally worthless statistics had to be re-implemented, which always leaves opportunities for mistakes. So, if you'd like to help ferret out the mistakes, please visit: http://test.rctankcombat.com/ give it a good going over, and compare it to the original website at: http://www.rctankcombat.com/ If you find anything that looks wrong, please post a reply and I'll take a look at it. Here are the known issues that don't need to be reported: a) The World-Wide map still needs to be registered with Google for the new server, so it is currently not visible. b) For some unknown reason, the scores for some Maryland battlers were somehow increased by 363% during the porting process, but I'm sure I'll figure out the problem someday :-) Let the nit-picking begin. -- -- You are currently subscribed to the R/C Tank Combat group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups R/C Tank Combat group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[TANKS] Re: Calling All Nit-Pickers
Yes Frank, thanks for all the web development and hosting. Definitely been a boon to the hobby. I bet it feels good off loading everything to someone else's web servers! ;-) Steve -- -- You are currently subscribed to the R/C Tank Combat group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups R/C Tank Combat group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[TANKS] Re: Calling All Nit-Pickers
On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 5:25:34 PM UTC-5, Frank Pittelli wrote: b) For some unknown reason, the scores for some Maryland battlers were somehow increased by 363% during the porting process, but I'm sure I'll figure out the problem someday :-) Let the nit-picking begin. Dear Dr. Pittelli, Your new site is completely erroneous. It shows that Hetzer T10 has more points earned than points given. Please correct this absurd error at your earliest convenience. All kidding aside - Thank you for all the work that you have done on our behalf these many years. Sincerely, Joe -- -- You are currently subscribed to the R/C Tank Combat group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups R/C Tank Combat group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TANKS] Re: Calling All Nit-Pickers
Definitely. We only had one hardware problem with that server in the 15 year period, so that server didn't require too much effort. But, at one point we had 20+ servers/routers/switches to manage, so plenty of holidays and weekends were disrupted by trips up to the co-location facility to solve an issue. Now, the cost of hosting is so cheap that I'm more than happy to let folks in Canada (where rctankcombat.com is now hosted) deal with hardware issues. Things have sure come a long way in the 20 years since I opened my first web site on the Internet in 1995. Back then, the server was in my house, at the end of a pitiful DSL line, and I could estimate web traffic by looking at the LEDs flashing on the modem. Even better, you simply filled out a web form to register your URL with the various search engines before Google came along, putting my site at or near the top of all R/C Warship searches from the very beginning. When Google came along, they eliminated that aspect, but they sucked in all of the newsgroup posts, which had thousands of references to my server, so it was near the top of the search results as well. At one point, the R/C warship web site was seen by 30,000+ unique visitors a month. -- -- You are currently subscribed to the R/C Tank Combat group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups R/C Tank Combat group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
