[Server] Introducing Regional Server Infrastructure

Fellow Botters,

We will be performing a maintenance in our server infrastructure on 25 Sep 2015 between 07:00AM and 10:00AM UTC for the introduction of new region system.

We are splitting our server infrastructure to the following regions

• America
• Europe
• China
• Southeast Asia

With this change, bot keys will be usable on only one region at any given time. You will be able to change which region your key is bound to any time and as many times as you want through the auth portals. Changing the region of a key will cause your sessions on other regions to be invalidated. All our bots will have new versions deployed which will have a region selection in the login window that will let you choose the region you want to connect to. Your keys will automatically get bound to the first region that you use them on.

The reason behind doing this is solely to give everybody the best experience they can get from our services. Right now, we have to maintain replication of data among all auth servers all over the world in real time. However, this is becoming harder day by day as our user base grows. By isolating our servers to regions, we will reduce the load of the data that needs to be replicated and will be able to perform at local speeds

 

The initial deployment is done. Please make sure you grab the latest Honorbuddy and Demonbuddy versions from http://updates.buddyauth.com

There might be some issues in following hours because of DNS propagations. We will be constantly monitoring all regions and do interventions when necessary. We are also aware that SSL certificates for https://eu.buddyauth.com and https://cn.buddyauth.com are not working right now and they will be fixed shortly.

We kindly ask for your patience until all regions get stabilized.

 

If you are still having crashes or connection issues, please try using google dns servers.

Howto use google dns:
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using