Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Exotherm - Need a new host

Mercuric lost connection with FICS some time today. To see if it crashed from a Python exception, I looked at the log, but the file was empty. Previously I had suspected that the OS was terminating it to reclaim memory, but then I wondered if some management service was terminating long-running processes since this kind of server is usually just used for web hosting. I did some research and discovered that the hosting company does not like standalone long-running processes, which is fair since their plans are designed for web sites. I shut the bot down for now and will need to find a new home for it - so far PythonAnywhere looks promising.

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