Sad news: CBRO will be retiring. But good news: CBRO will be replaced by CBR2, which will not run out of hard drive space for at least 10 years! Here’s the full plan:
- CBR2 (cbro.berotato.org) is a completely new server with a much bigger disk and better cpu, administered by ZureaL, advil, and johnstein, hosted by ZureaL, and located in the midwest.
- We have imported the CBRO login database from CBRO to CBR2, but most other data (including save files) will not be imported, for a fresh start.
- CBR2 is currently open for test games only, and the server will be reset on 9/25 at 11:59 EDT — games played before then are not on the record. Games played after this reset will appear in CAO scoring and Sequell. (We will do one last pull of the username db around then as well.)
- After CBR2 goes live on 9/26, CBRO will stop allowing new games to begin. CBRO will remain open for a while to allow finishing off any old games, and will continue hosting its current data until its shutdown (we are estimating final shutdown around 12/1/20). Any games finished until that point will also be on the record. At that point we will most likely archive long-term data away from the CBRO server into cloud storage.
Thanks very much to johnstein for solo-running CBRO for so many years, and to ZureaL for taking the lead in setting up CBR2!
1. Comment by jfcaron
23/Sep/2020 at 04:51
Awesome! I hope the transition goes smoothly. Thanks for allowing a generous time to finishing current games; I’m pretty slow but I can definitely die or win by December.
2. Comment by jejorda2
23/Sep/2020 at 13:05
Does CBR2 support ssh login with an RSA key for online play? Is it the same RSA key as CBRO? I haven’t been able to log in to CBR2 without typing the password.
3. Comment by advil
23/Sep/2020 at 16:24
Good question! I am not sure we have set this up yet (it’s not working for me either), but if not we will set up ssh key login. For now you can use crawler/crawler. edit ssh key login is now enabled, using the same key as for CBRO version 1.