Tag Archives: server

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the TibiaData API regarding the gateway handling the requests.

Earlier, we’ve been using Nginx as handler of the requests, but we have successfully switched to Kong API Gateway instead. This is a first step into upcoming changes..

There are two things we would like to highlight so far.

  1. New headers related to caching by Kong
    API requests are cached in Kong API gateway instead of inside the application and with that there come a few benefits.
    Two new headers that are in place which could be nice for you to know more about:
    • Age – shows the age of the page in seconds (not presented if its not cached)
    • X-Cache-Status – identifies the status of the request’s proxy cache
      • Miss – the request was satisfied by being proxied upstream and parsed fresh data from tibia.com
      • Hit – the request was satisfied and served from cache
      • Bypass – the request could not be satisfied by the cache
  2. Response about page not found/no route existing
    • Earlier behavior, you where presented with a page not found page.
    • New behavior, you will either get a page not found or a JSON response saying there is no route.
    • Future change, you will later on only use JSON responses all the way.

If you want to know more, what the cache intervals are for the different endpoints, you can read our post about TibiaData cache intervals.

Please get in touch with us if you are experiencing any issues and we can try to resolve those.

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our server

Hi there,

Today, we will migrating the API to a new platform and by that, the IP of the API will change.

The support for IPv6 is temporary removed, so the API will now only be available through IPv4.

It should not impact your except if you use the static IP instead of the DNS api.tibiadata.com in your integrations.

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our service

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make changes in the networking equipment to improve performance and reliability of our hosting location.

This maintenance is expected to not have any impact on our services, except for a risk of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while the upgrades are performed.

Maintenance window:
Start: 2020-09-22 20:00 UTC
End: 2020-09-23 00:00 UTC

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our service

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make changes in the networking equipment to improve performance and new functionality in future.

This maintenance is expected to not have any impact on our services, except for a risk of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while the upgrades are performed.

Maintenance window:
Start: 2020-09-08 20:00 UTC
End: 2020-09-09 00:00 UTC

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our service

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make changes in the networking equipment to improve performance and new functionality in future.

This maintenance is expected to not have any impact on our services, except for a risk of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while the upgrades are performed.

First maintenance window:
Start: 2020-08-18 20:00 UTC
End: 2020-08-19 00:00 UTC

Second maintenance window:
Start: 2020-08-20 20:00 UTC
End: 2020-08-21 00:00 UTC

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our server

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make a routine maintenance on the physical machine where we are hosting our load-balancer service on.

There is a little impact by this maintenance, which may be a few minutes of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while they shift traffic to redundant devices. They will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.

Start: 2020-03-24 23:00:00 (UTC)
End: 2020-03-25 07:00:00 (UTC)

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our server

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make a routine maintenance on the physical machine where we are hosting our service on.

There is a little impact by this maintenance, which may be a few minutes of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while they shift traffic to redundant devices. They will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.

Start: 2020-02-05 23:00:00 (UTC)
End: 2020-02-06 07:00:00 (UTC)

Regards,
Tobias

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the whole TibiaData API regarding CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing).

This means, that you now can run requests with for example ajax towards the API right from your website.

The allowed HTTP methods are GET and OPTIONS.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell browsers to give a web application running at one origin, access to selected resources from a different origin. A web application executes a cross-origin HTTP request when it requests a resource that has a different origin (domain, protocol, or port) from its own.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS

Credits to a lot of you, who have requested this feature in the API.
Keep the reports coming and feel free to suggest even more new features!

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our server

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOceans networking team will make changes to their core networking equipment to improve performance at the datacenter, where our service is located.

There is a little impact by this maintenance, which may be a few minutes of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while they shift traffic to redundant devices. They will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.

Start: 2020-01-07 21:00 UTC
End: 2020-01-08 01:00 UTC

Regards,
Tobias

Happy New Year

We have slightly have changed plans from last year about new services and will focus at some other areas.

Our first goal for 2020 is to rewrite our API in another language (switching from php to golang).

Secondly we will go probably add some premium edition of out API, so that we can deliver a even better service in terms of faster processing of data and to be able to add more accurate data as it is today. We are not exactly there in how it will be, but stay tuned on that one!

And last but not least, we will look into doing it open-source soon, so that you then could contribute to our project or run the code on your own Kubernetes setup.

There will be some limitations when hosting it yourself, but more on that at another time.

I think we will leave it by this by now and go celebrate with your friends and we’ll keep you updated.

And if you got some questions as to the above or so, get in touch with me and I’m happy to answer it all!

Best regards,
Tobias