So you may have noticed that the DTP is a bit unstable right now. And maybe you were wondering why it’s suddenly like that or why it’s not fixed.
Well, I didn’t look too hard into it yet, but this is probably that recurring issue that keeps showing up on our gsk-texas-1 server which happens to be where it and our Terraria servers run (more info on our Patreon).
The issue is essentially that the server is not very good at talking to a different server where we store our DTP information.
So fix when?
Well sometimes just waiting has worked in the past, it doesn’t yet seemed to have gone away.
The last time this happened and it didn’t disappear I had to move all that information to a new server and hope they get along better, at least until the next time it happens (it’s happened twice already). Maybe this server is just not very good at getting along with others.
This also affects the Terraria servers themselves but it’s less noticeable (except PvE which was down for a while) because once they managed to get the conversation going with our DB server they seem to be ok. But the DTP does that every time you load the page, so it’s constantly failing to do that and doing it once or twice doesn’t help the next time you load the page.
There’s another option, which is moving the DTP to a better behaved server. But that’s also problematic because the DTP assumes it’s running in the same location as the other stuff it talks to, so it won’t work immediately after it being moved.
So why have you not do one of those yet?
Unfortunately, neither of these solutions is easy, since the DB server holds information the Terraria servers need as well, so moving that around will definitely cause trouble. So for now I’m waiting for either the problem to go away or the time available to try one of the above.
