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Corporation Details
Eve Service Corp provides free and paid killboards, forums and the like!
Name Eve Service Corp
Ticker [EVSCO]
Alliance Eve Service Alliance
CEO ESC Admin
Founded 2008.11.18
Founded by ESC Admin
Status Active
Headquarters Undisclosed
Public Channel None
Website EVSCO Website


Contents

Short Description

Eve Service Corp (EVSCO) is the ingame variant of the EVSCO Website, they specialize in hosting for the Eve Online community. Their main focus is killboard hosting, where at the time of writing, they hosted 3896 killboard (1617 pilot killboards, 1981 corporation killboards and 298 alliance killboards).

EVSCO owns a series of domains that allow players to create killboards using sub-domains under these. Best known are

  • eve-kill.net
  • killmail.org
  • mindflood.org

EVSCO was created 2008.11.18 by Beansman (Ingame HyperBeanie), Karbowiak and Ralle030583. The 3 players all ran killboards and could see a huge advantage in combining their work and services.

Services

EVSCO provides free (ad-based) and paid killboard. A killboard can be created by visiting evsco.net and clicking "Create" in the top menu.

EVSCO provides several ways of contacting them. Fastest and most reliable is the Live Support which is a Java based IRC client (#esc @ irc.coldfront.net). Another option is to use the Ticket system and last but not least the forum.

EVSCO fetches killmails from as many killboards and API keys as they can get hold of. At evsco.net/?a=feed you can add your killboard feed and at eve-kill.net/?a=apikey you can add your API key to the system.

EVSCO is usually open to suggestions and co-operation with other sites and services. Examples are the Northern Crusade and Dotlan Evemaps. There have also been examples of players requesting to have a query run on the database to generate statistical data to be used in projects.

EVSCO hosts and image proxy containing all the images from the CCP Image Dump and the Eve-Dev killboard image dump. The service is free to use and is available and browsable at cdn.evsco.net.

Historical Dates

Most of these dates have been salvaged from the sales thread, and each one links to the appropriate information source.

  • 2008.11.18 EVSCO was formed
  • 2008.12.01 Old mails is being imported to the new merged killboard. The board started with around 1.5 mio killmails (Sales thread
  • 2009.01.01 200 killboards created Sales thread
  • 2009.01.08 EVSCO Starts collecting feed urls to collect all the killmails they can get. Sales thread
  • 2009.02.08 2.5 mio killmails, 450 killboards Sales thread
  • 2009.02.17 500 killboards Sales thread
  • 2009.02.23 Cooperation with Dotlan Evemaps. Sales thread
  • 2009.03.08 605 killboards. Sales thread
  • 2009.03.31 EVSCO sponsors killboard for Eve University. Sales thread
  • 2009.06.17 Major rewrite and addition of code. Sales thread
  • 2009.06.23 EVSCO starts running lotteries. Sales thread
  • 2009.08.03 1071 killboards. Sales thread
  • 2009.08.17 The database contains: 4.001.681 killmails, 61.530 Corporations, 2.511 Alliances Sales thread
  • 2009.08.27 EVSCO gets accepted as official Eve Online fansite and starts offering multi pilot killboards Sales thread
  • 2009.09.14 EVSCO grows bigger than Griefwatch compared on active killboards. Sales thread
  • 2009.09.27 4.5 mio killmails and 1300 killboards. EVSCO offers 3 months free to defectors from Griefwatch. Sales thread
  • 2009.11.18 1 year birthday! Sales thread
  • 2009.11.24 5 mio killmails. Sales thread
  • 2009.12.27 EVSCO wishes all customers a merry christmas. Christmas letter
  • 2010.03.01 2089 killboards. Sales thread
  • 2010.03.12 Problems with migrating to an updated version makes customers complain. Beansman gives a quick recap. Next 5-10 posts is about the same topic going back and forth between customers and staff. Sales thread
  • 2010.03.21 Faction prices is being updated via the c0rporation site.
  • 2010.03.24 iPhone interface is made available by adding i. infront of a killboard url. Sales thread
  • 2010.04.01 100 killboard created in 4 days, 2300 total! Sales thread
  • 2010.04.02 Titan kill. Server handles 800 req/s and 40mbit/s traffic without dying. Sales thread
  • 2010.04.12 Northern Crusade is launched. EVSCO supplies the data and hosting and PeterPowers supplies the code and queries. Sales thread
  • 2010.04.29 New server and a status recap. 10 mio. pageviews a month and 40.000 daily unique visitors. Sales thread
  • 2010.07.26 EVSCO launches an API Importer that doesn't demand the user to have a killboard. Sales thread
  • 2010.08.09 3282 killboards. Sales thread
  • 2010.11.12 New server. Virtualization and missing SSD gives some problems. Sales thread
  • 2010.11.13 Dedicated database server with SSD readded to the setup. Normal disks didn't give enough performance. System is back on a 2 server setup. Sales thread

Server Setup

During the time EVSCO has been alive they have used a number of different server setups. The following is not a complete list of all setups used.

The setups also describe the change the killboard code has gone through and where the workload has been placed.

  1. Database server and http server.
  2. Master-Master database replication, http servers on database servers and dedicated http proxy server
  3. Master-Master database replication, mysql-proxy and http server
  4. Database server, http server and http caching server
  5. (Current Setup) Database server, http server and caching server

The above setups have been used with a mix of apache and lighttpd as http servers, squid and varnish and http cache and mysql as database backend.

Other Projects

Hint: If you have a good idea that EVSCO could engage in, join the Live Support and explain it to Beansman or Karbowiak.

Links

EVSCO Sales Thread

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