Server Discussion Can we actually have tools that make hosting a server less painful?

The scripts in question run on IRC through an eggdrop, but I can share the general workings I guess:

starbound is started with screen -dmS starbound launch_server.sh
every 5 minutes this command is used to check CPU load: top -bn1 -p PID | awk /$p/'{print $9}'
This gives a number relative to the amount of cores you have. If you have 8 cores, that means the maximum cpu load is 800.
If the load is too high for your liking, you can either send a kill -int to the pid of the starbound server, or send a ctrl+c (\003) through the screen to the console.

For memory: ps -p PID -o %mem
# Players: netstat -nt | grep -c 21025 (or change to the port you're letting people play on)

 

Here ill add to your code to make some more options!

Code:

@@echo off
:start
cls
netstat -np TCP | find /c "21025"
netstat -np TCP | find /c "21025" > filename.txt
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 5000 >NUL
goto start

Here this will count the connections (you should subtract one for the listening). It will also save it to a file. You can make it an .html file and make an iframe within your website and have a player counter.

Iframes
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
http://manda.com/iframe/



Example coming soon!

 

Functional counter!
They are above the server banners

http://www.free-universe.com/home

 

Your example helped us out greatly !

Using netstat to output to txt and having php pull it in and display; looks good

Status's on bottom
http://forums.blushell.net/

 

My final technique.

Code:

@@echo off
:start
cls
netstat -np TCP | find /c "21025"
echo ^<font color^="Red"^> > sbbcount.html
echo Players Online: >> sbbcount.html
netstat -np TCP | find /c "21025" >> sbbcount.html
echo ^</font^> >> sbbcount.html
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 10000 >NUL
goto start

Code:

 <iframe width="125" height="32" src="http://sbb.free-universe.com/sbbcount.html"></iframe>