Voodoo Chat
How the System WorksOriginally, Voodoo Chat was run in a server hierarchy within an overlay network."The Hub Server", also known as "The King" but technically a supernode, organizes all the other servers, decides where to create rooms and put new users, verifies logins and deals with private messages."The Login Server", also known as "The Rook", is the guard for The King, but better known as a computer-based firewall. The Rook is many servers comprised together to forward login details to The King, and when The King gives the a-ok, The Rook forwards the user to a chat server."The Chat Server", also known as "The Pawn", are the many servers you interact with beyond the login process, less private messages. These control the chat process and distribution of avatar graphics. If a Pawn disconnects from the internet, a Rook would gather all the users from said server and transfer them to a new Pawn.Today, the service works a little differently."The Chat Server" is now run and administrated by the server operator. The server operator controls all the day-to-day actions of the server and no longer requires the Hub to function in the case that the hub goes down for any reason. If The Chat Server were to go down, however, and the administrator did not declare a new server to jump to, the users would all be kicked off the server and that would be the end of their chatting experience until the server returned or they chose a different server.
