neverwinterconnections.com is moving

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               Some of you may be familiar with the fan site

neverwinterconnections.com

a wonderful multiplayer NWN Matchmaking resource that includes its own forum, and has been around almost as long as NWN itself.

Recently it was announced that the hosting arrangement for this wonderful site, provided for the last decade by (our heroes) Shawn Schultz and GILAUN, would be changing.

As a result of this change, the site neverwinterconnections.com site MAY go dark for a few days while all the support systems it requires are brought online, configured and tested.

Please be patient as we work through the site-move process.

MANY THANKS to Shawn Schultz and GILAUN for their many years of dedicated service to the NWN and NWN2 communities! KUDOS to you both!!! May your futures be prosperous and your names live on in community lore!

Many thanks also are due to Erin / Eriniel, our team's technical guru who is supervising the move and setup at this time. Many thanks due to DM_Ioovius also for kindly providing the hosting services and space (a lot of space).

We will update this post when the neverwinterconnections.com site is responding fully at the new host location, we hope this to be 'very soon'. Meanwhile, any questions/comments regarding neverwinterconnections.com can be sent to me by PM here.

Be well. Game on!
GM_ODA

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[Legacy_henesua]

               When is the plan for the move? I plan on using NWC to help me organize some game events I have planned over the next few weekends.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Elhanan]

               Techless One here....

While I have not used the site myself, I have recommended many others try it out based on a stellar rep, so Thanks for the update!

Will the site name remain the same?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               henesua - the folks hosting it now (the old host) said they would allow it to run 'through the end of the month' that is March, so I have no idea how long they will let it online. We are working at speed to ensure functionality of the system on the new host - but cannot guarantee when we will be done nor when the old hosters will 'pull the plug' - sadly, that is all the information I can give you at this time. We are working at speed tho and hope to have it up very soon on the new host.

Elhanan - we will try to preseve all functionality on the new host. Once we have all that was working working again, we will begin to review the features and plan for expansion, repair, improvement, etc. for the site.

Be well. Game on!
GM_ODA
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               Thanks, ehye_kandee. Its good to know. And not a problem. I can find other ways to organize upcoming events until NWC is back online.

I wish you well in your efforts, you and the team you are working with. Thanks much.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Vanya Mia]

               As anticipated, NWC went down at the end of March. I appreciate it's no simple task but is there any update for those of us seeking to schedule weekly campaign sessions, and our players too of course, at this point in time?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               Eriniel and I are working on the code (even as I type this message). We obtained the code only very recenly (the last week in March) so we are still wading thru it all and getting our bearings on what is what. Our task includes not only provisioning the new server to support all the features of the nwc site code, but also a security review (absolutely essential). I know better than to make estimates - I can only say we are wading thru as fast as we can and will get the site up ASAP. Meanwhile, we've prepared a temporary page which should be visable soon... it will contain any/all updates on progress as we go - and should soon be the default page on the neverwinterconnections.com site.

Please take no offense from these words (I really just don't want to make a promise of time to release at this stage as it could be hugely wrong and waste your time and mine).

Be well. Game on.
GM_ODA

http://playnwn.com
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Karvon]

               Appreciate the update and the work your team is doing to keep NWC alive.

Regards,

Karvon
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Vanya Mia]

               Yes, thanks for the update but we do need a place for people to keep in touch if the down time is going to stretch.  For old and new players alike a few of us are moving here...

http://nwncampaigns....orums/index.php

... at least until the new host is ready.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               UPDATE - We continue to make progress at a goodly rate on the neverwinterconnections.com web site and forum.

We can disclose - while the original neverwinterconnections.com was coded in Cold Fusion and proved an excellent system for many years, Cold Fusion is a tad bit expensive - costing anywhere from $1300 to $2700 US.

We are very practical sorts here - and not so flush with cash that we can lay out such funds at this time - so we have a solution. To ensure that we can operate neverwinterconnections.com well going forward, and to ensure that who-ever may inherit the neverwinterconnections.com site if we ever "pass the baton" we have chosen to RE-CODE the neverwinterconnections.com site in PHP - which is FREE SOFTWARE.

We are pleased to announce that these are not mere 'plans' but a process well underway. Eriniel has, just this week, completed conversion of the old site's databases. Yesterday, we began testing on the new neverwinterconnections.com code, and hope to have further good news regarding the neverwinterconnections.com web & forum VERY SOON.

KUDOS to Eriniel our Programming Lead, and - my FAVORITE genius in the whole world. '>

For the community, please stand by - neverwinterconnections.com will return to operations VERY SOON.

Be well. Game ON!
GM_ODA
http://playnwn.com
               
               

               

                     Modifié par ehye_khandee, 13 avril 2012 - 12:48 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_henesua]

               Good news. Thank you.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <arriving...>

I know it's a bit late to redo anything now, but you might look into building a Drupal site in parallel. It's free (and open source) and runs nicely alongside a more traditional site. Just create a dev.neverwinterconnections.com subdomain and install Drupal 7 in a "d7" (or whatever) folder in your "public_html" folder to try it out.

Drupal is built on php & MySQl, but is (IMO) very modular, logical, robust and secure. And most of the things I want to do have been implemented in modules already. The ones that aren't can still be programmed directly in php. Or javascript. Or...

Some prominent examples done with Drupal are the Whitehouse, United Nations and Popular Science Mag

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                     Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 13 avril 2012 - 05:21 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               Many thanks for the well-intentioned suggestion Rolo Kipp (always good to see you online!) - but having run that notion past Eriniel and seen a hack list as scarey as any I have EVER seen - I think we'll stick with our usual 'hand coded' methods.

Be very warey if you are using Drupal.

Be well. Game on.
GM_ODA
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Metaldwarf]

               So pleased to know this, thanks to all involved.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Vanya Mia]

               Any update yet?