Messenger disconnected

Most likely JOT isn't running. Instead of using something like forever to try and keep JOT running, create a service for JOT and start and stop JOT using the service.

Will, thank you for your reply. The server is running forever. We had the same issue two weeks ago and we solved it by changing from one port to another, because the service couldn't be stopped with the kill command by our hosting admin. Now, 2 weeks later, messenger stopped working, again. Alexey helped with his support, but since we are hosted on a virtual server instance, we have no full root access. My question was meant in direction to other UNA site admins on a hosted server solution (not UNA), if they have similar experience with jot-server stopping service unexpected. From time to time, I noticed, that even the messenger here on UNA.io stops its service. Now, teh reason might propably be that Alexey is working on it and stops the server on purpose. Since we are planning to go live around Easter, after almost 2 years of planning, deploying and waiting for technical reasons, The weird thing is that jot-server ran more than half a year without any issues. We even consider now changing from a vServer to a full root cloud server solution, because we need reliability of services.

Yes, when I first started using JOT I was having to restart JOT due to changing ssl certs (using the free Let's Encrypt.) My hosting provider changed to JOT being ran through a service where systemd can handle the starting and stopping of JOT. If you are interested, I can send you a PM of where I am hosting. VPSes can handle UNA but that is on hosts that don't over sell their VPSes boxes; if they put too many VPSes on the same box, then it is no better than shared hosting because VPSes (unless using kernel virtualization) share resources with other VPSes.

If you have many users, I suggest a dedicated server over any cloud server.

Really appreciate that, Will. Please send me the name of your host by pm.

Ok, will do right now.

This solution worked for me. It also makes managing JOT server much easier.

Guys, thank you very much for your help. Really appreciate it!

No problem.

Hey......@thomlin have you resolved your problem?

Hi Will, not yet. We agreed on waiting for the next update UNA 13 and will decide then the next step. The contract with our current host expires end of March with services ending end of May. So, there's still time for making a sound decision where to go. Will update our test server first and then decide which solution's the best for our future live server. I compare different solutions, which also meet our budget. Among those is for sure the one you sent me by pm.

@thomin, Do you understand that UNA 13 is still in Alpha testing and may be some time before release in Beta? Then goes through the beta testing before a final release? UNA 12.1.0 is the current stable release.

Yes, I'm fully aware of that, Will. I think, that Alpha 3 might probably become a Beta 1 in a few days, cause the whole UNA team seems to test and adjust since quite a few weeks. I expect a very stable Beta13 coming along and very short update cycles for the following Beta rounds, as Andrew announced a few weeks ago.

Oh snap!!!!!! cool, please if you can upgrade this thread and let me know about UNA13.

It's just my expectations, Will. or maybe wishful thinking. But the last beta1 version of 12 has been released back in January 2021. And a lot of the new, good stuff was already included in the first two alpha versions of 13. Some time ago, Alex wrote that they might exclude some bigger parts and postpone them to the next version 14. Until now, I cannot see any tranfers of open issues to una 14 on github. We all will know what's coming in very short time.

I hope!

Is there a place in which one can go and view all the good stuff on UNA 13?

Yes, there is the github site, where you can follow the latest progress of the UNA developpers team on https://github.com/unaio/una/milestones

I see, thanks!

We will try out @MSolutions Jot Server service at https://www.jotserver.com/index.html to end this seemingly endless story with our host forever.