Important Announcement: Servers are getting shut down and being moved

[WaLLy]

Hello everyone,

I received some very bad news earlier today from our game server provider (GSP). The GSP received some IP constraint from their current provider and are being forced to migrate to another provider and locations.

How does it affect us?
-New locations = new IP addresses
-It affects all of their locations (currently Dallas, Washington D.C., and San Jose)
-New location = Chicago
-Both our Dallas and San Jose servers will get axed
-We will be starting fresh because of all new IP addresses
-The change will go in effect May 15th, 2012


This is all short notice and at the moment the only thing I have as an option is to migrate S1 to Chicago, if push comes to shove. The reality is, I'd like to get a dedicated server for our needs. I have asked our GSP to provide us with quotes, and various other locations available for us to select.

I'm also looking for backup GSP's, for the time being. So if you know of a GSP that offers inexpensive servers, please post here.

Feel free to post your questions and/or concerns and I will try to answer them as best I can.

-WaLLy

 

[Ethan]

Thanks for letting us know, Walter.
It'll all work out in the end...sucks that all the servers will have to be re-configured, or just not brought back :sadcry:

So are we going to have a new machine in Chicago or what?

 

[WaLLy]

re-configuring shouldn't be the hard part as I will be downloading all current configs, mods, etc. It'll just be a bit time consuming is all.

I'd like to see what the GSP offers before I can make a call. Worst case scenario, the new S1 would be in Chicago in a shared server (the way S1 currently sits.)

 

[Ethan]

and other servers would go? (in the case we didn't get an immediate dedicated server center).

 

[PaigeBoo]

Do you know how long things will be down for?

This does suck but we'll figure it out. Hopefully it doesn't affect our server regulars too much

 

[WaLLy]

and other servers would go? (in the case we didn't get an immediate dedicated server center).

If I can't get my hands on a dedicated server, I would probably go back to the way we were before and that's to a limited amount of servers.

Do you know how long things will be down for?

This does suck but we'll figure it out. Hopefully it doesn't affect our server regulars too much

I foresee maybe a day's worth. Migrating S1 to Chicago that is. If I can get a dedicated server before the 15th, the transition would be smoother because I could get those going while the old servers are still online.

 

[PwnSauce]

bottom line: 15 May all servers go to chicago.
update bookmarks accordingly

krewmembers should remind our regular players of this, not to mention server automessages.

 

[ponyboy]

so now i have to enter all teh ips again? awww. i will tell regulars, and Wally can u put up a console message in all the servers to tell them and the new ips?

 

[Joe Momma]

Wow. They fucked us. AGAIN. Seriously wtf?

 

[ponyboy]

what are the dallas and san jose servers? and what do u mean by axed?

 

[Cent0]

Well this sucks monkey bawls!
We'll just have to start fresh, huh?
Chicago servers.. man I'm going to have bad ping LOL.

 

[MelRose]

Thanks for the notice and for all the work you put in on this. I'll let the regulars I play with know.

 

[Hanny]

Wow that sucks but good thing I came here and read this, Thnx informing us about this WaLLy !

 

[WaLLy]

so now i have to enter all teh ips again? awww. i will tell regulars, and Wally can u put up a console message in all the servers to tell them and the new ips?

As soon as I find out the IP's I will spam them accordingly.

At this moment, I don't know what location and/or if we're going back to a shared server or have a dedicated server. Hopefully I'll have more news tomorrow.

 

[SteelHorse]

Thanks for letting us know WaLLy and for taking the time to work all of this out man. :notworthy:

BTW Hanny ur sig is RLLY BIG

 

[MikeK]

thnx for info Walter...


we'll need to let every1 on s1 know about new IPs by a console automessages.


P.S. Hanny pls change your sig

 

[BluBirD78]

Yeah this does suck, wonder how long it'll take to populate S1 again...

I guess when we moved from 1.6 in reality it didn't take very long to get it going, hopefully this works out good, and it would be nice to have a dedicated server for all servers too

 

[Kreubs]

maaaan just when we got s6 going

sauce

 

[Arcani]

HA lucky me i dont got my computer so it aint a big deal to me...same with kessa anyways hope they do get back soon cuz idk when ill get my motherboard

 

[Freeze]

Ah, well good luck with the transition Wally, I hope everything'll work out for the krew! If you want to keep as many regulars informed as possible I would suggest spamming s1 and s6 with messages that there will be a host transition.