voting site and online checker

PowerChaos · 08/25/2014, 10:33

Dear users
at current moment i got my site ready and it is tested out for some time

is a website checker and voting site

it checks your site every min for a certain meta tag and as long it finds that metatag then your site is online

if it can not find that metatag then your site is down , easy as that

what does it do ?

Count unic clicks to your site
provide players to your site
allow players to vote
Sends a optional callback ( advanced ) to reward AFTER succesfull voting
allow to use your own banner
checks your site status ( up or down ) every min
Auto remove DEAD sites ( 30 days offline -> removed )
Anti bot system with out captcha
One vote every 12 hours ( per server )
Easy to add , sends a email to you with more info
No cheating with clicks/votes ( it are REAL numbers )
Voting + online goes on top , offline sites are down the top
Remove your site by a press of a button
Easy system , just click the banner for options (in settings )
Maybe more intrested stuff ??

so if you want a accurate server list with latest servers and current status ( checked every min )
then feel free to add your site to

Please note
you only need to place the METATAG betwean your <.head></.head> tags

here is a example

PHP Code:


			
 <head>

  <meta name="powerchaos.info" content="yoursitenumberprovided" />

  </head>

That certain code checks if your site is online or not
it does not break your current site
it does basicly nothing

here is a metatag verification of demonpower

Code:

Meta tags report for: http://demonpower.com
meta tag	length	value
Title:	 15	DemonPower Beta
Description:	 15	DemonPower Beta
Keywords:	 57	demonpower, Eudemons, Pets, Demons, Paladin, Warior, Mage
Author:	 10	PowerChaos

tested as google bot

enjoy
Greets From PowerChaos

PowerChaos · 08/26/2014, 16:25

could some one provide some comment about this ? and the idea of this ?

it would be nice that some users are willing to test it out xD

Greets From PowerChaos

hio77 · 08/26/2014, 16:37

every min sounds a little frequent for a simple uptime check

but otherwise sounds good.

the market for voting scripts is just so flooded - honestly i personally don't use them to find servers iver.

Guess i like to know the faces behind a server aren't twats and have some knowledge though.

PowerChaos · 08/26/2014, 19:50

what you suggest then for the check

basicly it just check if your site is online every min , if it is offline ( cant find metatag) then it shows a countdown in how many days it will be removed

as all sites get checked at the same time do i like to keep it per min
on that way it is always accurate

do you have other idea's to add
as i am happy to work on a perfect script for server uptime/voting/statics
just like minecraft has would i also not mind to add online player stats on the server ( based on certain page that users need to add xD )

but thats only if i get some feedback or some idea's as it is useles to work on a project with out intrests ( sadly enough see at my control panel -> no intrest at all

and took me a month to make + lot of time to tweak)

Greets From PowerChaos

Eurion · 08/26/2014, 20:05

I like this idea, but I do have one issue with it. Meta tags are sent at the beginning of a page load. So if your web host is offsite, the meta tag will be sent before anything related to the actual server.

So the website may indeed be up and running, but it doesn't mean the server is up and running.

I havent thought of a better way yet, but if I do, I'll let you know for sure

PowerChaos · 08/26/2014, 20:41

that will always be the problem
if you see at demonpower.com
the site is offsite
but the server itself works on port check
i could also include a port check like i dit in the past but firewalls does not like that ( and a lot of users does not like it eather )

also i try to make it for all games
in the beginnning i was thinking to response to header response 200 ( ok response )
but that also get sended if the site failt to load or got a blank page

i am also thinking of writing a script that they can download/place on there server that checks the users/server status on there site , so my site just grab that info and shows if it is online/offline ( like the netstat trick but then based on database )

at current moment is it only the purpose to see if the site is online/offline
as most users also put it on there vps does it works kinda good
also other sites can be added by the dynamic system ( you deside the category xD )

but i wonder if users are willing to place a script on there host to allow my site to check online players
as there is no other way to check players ( unlike minecraft that the server sends the amount of players and a lot of stats )

so feel free to suggest me certain methodes or changes or what you preffer
then i going see if i can find a way to include them

the example of online players will work this way

user place script on there site
script querry there db and shows users ( like on dp online stats)
my site grabs only the users that the script outputs
my site stores it in database
my site grabs it from db and shows it on site
if the grab failt (mysql error on user site ) then shows offline

ofcourse that system depends also on the users themself if they are willing to do that extra step as there is no way to do it external

Greets From PowerChaos

idlemonkey · 08/26/2014, 23:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by PowerChaos

but i wonder if users are willing to place a script on there host to allow my site to check online players
as there is no other way to check players ( unlike minecraft that the server sends the amount of players and a lot of stats )

so feel free to suggest me certain methodes or changes or what you preffer
then i going see if i can find a way to include them

the example of online players will work this way

user place script on there site
script querry there db and shows users ( like on dp online stats)
my site grabs only the users that the script outputs
my site stores it in database
my site grabs it from db and shows it on site
if the grab failt (mysql error on user site ) then shows offline

ofcourse that system depends also on the users themself if they are willing to do that extra step as there is no way to do it external

Greets From PowerChaos

this would be a bad way to do it as it would involve opening the mysql port on their server which should be as locked down as possible, people have been using the site scripts to lag other peoples servers as well as the register page lately so it its generally a lot better to keep the onsite scripts to a minimum ....... besides which if you give it to people to install they wont do it ... people as a whole are lazy they want everything done for them already

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a service that would be good in this respect is someone who can actually physically check these things regularly and report on them ie service status online last checked by xx admin at yy time
or both... an uptime check and a person to check them physically every so often ....

any uptime script as mentioned would only be that, an uptime script... ie is port open yes no is port in use yes no is port reachable yes no etc ..... but a site can be online and display an account suspended page or an error etc or a port can be open and reachable(although a crawler could look for keywords or perform tasks etc on a website)
and a gameserver stalled frozen or offline, or a port could be in use by another program etc
physically checking these things would make them a lot more effective

PowerChaos · 08/27/2014, 07:59

well
physical check could be a option
but who would like to do that job ??

i could show a page that users manual need to confirm
after a vote that they can press online/offline but those things are not accurate

There is no one that is willing to do this job for free
and assigning some one to check the servers every min or every hour is a time killing job

so i woulnd think that that is the best solution
as you say , they want things easy so if they refuse to install a script or to open a port to check ( accserver port is ALWAYS open or clients cant connect ) then there is no way to check it ?

i going see if i can add the accserver port to the script for eudemons
but then users need to provide there gameserver ip and not all users like to provide that xD

its complicated this way
a easy solution would be fine but depends how the users like to work on it and even are willing to join this system or not

Greets From PowerChaos

idlemonkey · 08/27/2014, 13:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by PowerChaos

well
physical check could be a option
but who would like to do that job ??

I do this for all of my clients sites and services regularly .... youre right i dont like to do it all the time but hey, its much better than getting complaints about stuff not being online when my service says it is

I am sure if you posted for volunteers for such a service(if you intended on making it free) you would probably get back a good response and could pick and choose who you get to do it with u
its not as if someone would get any real permissions for anything other than to look at a bunch of websites lol

as far as the ips go.... every client has oems if you have your new subscriptions provide their oem for you then that is all the information you need for your script right? of course some wont like it but you are right there is no way to check a host without the hostname at least if not the actual ip

hit me up in skype if you wanna talk about it more i dont want to screw up ur thread here

PowerChaos · 09/03/2014, 07:56

well it would be nice to have some servers first so i can get more feedback over the system

i am thinking about the oem system
so they upload there oem.dat , i extract the needed information ( like port and stuff ) and put it in database

also new stuff that need to be added or things that need to be changed would be nice to know

at current moment is it a free service ( you can get premium to get in a serperate list xD )

Greets From PowerChaos