Multiserver PW and dealing with character vault

[zicada]

Hi,

What is currently the preferred way of sharing characterdata between servers within a PW ?
In a setup where all servers are on a LAN, I am sure the optimal is to use SMB or NFS or similar, but what other options are available when the servers are scattered over the internet ?

In the past, my PW has been using SMBFS, AFS, NFS and lately WEBDAV on a dedicated servervault. The most common issues are lagspikes when users log on/off as nwn1 is singlethreaded and "waits" for the read/write operations on the bic to finish. Whenever there are problems completing the read/write operations, a CEB (chaotic evil barbarian) character will replace the users .bic in some cases.

Vaultster is certainly a viable option,- but im not very familiar with it.

What im looking for is opinions from people of other PWs that have been through the same issues. Hopefully some input on pros/cons of vaultster.

Finally, there was some talk a while back about the possibility of leaving .bic's completely and using SQL for characterdata aswell. What is the current status on this ? Is it even possible ? One could only imagine the advantages such a system would offer a PW (webfrontend, realtime changes, etc) I realize there are most likely limitations on whats actually possible here,- input would be appreciated.

Thanks
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zicada

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[FunkySwerve]

It'd be possible, you'd have to leto everything back, however, and with items the amount of data and the complexity would be daunting. Vaultster was designed to handle the problem you are having.
Funky