Founders MrMuppet Posted August 2, 2013 Founders Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 As you all know, we have had some major server changes recently and we probably have not really kept you up-to-date on why and where we are with the moves. The reason for moving the Beginners and the Nodownload servers where driven by the issues with the NL servers hosted by YCN, these where constantly timing out due to DDoS attacks, after numerous complaints we are at the point now where YCN do not reply to my support tickets. The beginners was moved to the dedi box and changed to Nitmod and map vote, this hopefully would have reduced the amount of lag that players where suffering under the old mod and server, this also runs the NxAC software to reduce the amount of cheats that may try to connect. There are still a couple of issues that need to be resolved (I have not forgotten) and will be looking at these shortly.Connect to; beginners.teammuppet.com or 109.70.149.30:27960 The Silent server has been moved to today due to me winding down my account with YCN, this is a duplicate of the original server other than the update to the latest version of Silent has been installed, the detectbotv3 lua as been added also, if there any issues then please post.Connect to;Silent.teammuppet.com or 109.70.149.33:27960 A new server had already been purchased with gameservers.com based in the NL to replace the nodownload server in the near future but due to yet another DDoS attack last Friday we moved the server immediately, a good decision at the time as the YCN NL servers where up and down all weekend.I spoke to kill4fun from UCE at the weekend who was complaining about the YCN servers and asked if we had moved hosts and informed him that we had done so, I checked their forums to see if they had made the decision to move and saw a post regarding their support request from YCN; “Unfortunately we have been under huge DDoS attacks this weekend and there doesn't seem to be anything that we can do against it. So to be honest with you, if you want to change hosts and you find one with DDoS protection, then go for it.†Our decision to move from YCN seems to have been the correct one, though this has also brought some other issues. The gameservers.com servers do have DDoS protection and anyone using HLSW to view the server may see that the server is constantly lagging out, this is not the issues, it is the server rejecting the constant “getstatus†commands, this is also showing intermittent “server down†status on Splatterladder. Game tracker banners are our preferred form of advertisement for the foreseeable future due to them being in partnership with Gameservers.com. The server is still not using the real time rating system from Trackbase due to the server crashing whilst using the latest 0.7.0 binaries, Paul from Trackbase believes he cannot scan the server due to us using 0.6.7 binaries and we need to update, Gameservers believe this is because the binaries are compiled using a later version of glibc, I have reported this back to Paul and am awaiting his reply. There server is currently using the default rating system, if anyone is actually interested in rating! The server has been changed to map vote and now as a total of 30 maps installed with more to follow, the extra port (27961) has been added and tested to allow the server to show in the 2.55 server browser, if there are any issues then please feedback.The old server is still live and will for the next month redirect clients to the new ip address. Connect to; Etpub.teammuppet.com or nd.teammuppet.com or 109.70.149.28:27960 So, hopefully is you read all of that then you will know why the servers where moved and for what reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macka Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Hey Mr thanks for the update. Your work, and those of other admins, is much appreciated. It keeps the servers a fun place to play and avoids disruption as much as possible. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarty Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Someone apparently works around the clock, witch is never seen until such post as this. Many thanks for it all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 we appreciate all the time that you and other admins have spent here to make this community better every time. thank you very much for all your work that you have done here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaunt Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Thanx for the work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taha(TURK) Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Thanks for everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SynapsePrare Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 I am thankful for all ! ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitmod Admin StaR Posted August 3, 2013 Nitmod Admin Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 Thank you sir! This is why order yet exists in TM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duro Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 Thanks Mr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 Danke sehr! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stumpel Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 Good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miraro3 Posted August 4, 2013 Report Share Posted August 4, 2013 People like MrMuppet keep the ET community alive. The amount of time and effort Craig puts in is just way beyond what we can imagine. You deserve way more then you actually get in return for all this mate. Thanks a lot for supplying us with a place to relax and have a game amongst friends. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Txrki Posted August 4, 2013 Report Share Posted August 4, 2013 v43 =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle_cz Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 People like MrMuppet keep the ET community alive. The amount of time and effort Craig puts in is just way beyond what we can imagine. You deserve way more then you actually get in return for all this mate. Thanks a lot for supplying us with a place to relax and have a game amongst friends. +1 Thank you Mr. ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darek Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 Much appreciated Craig, that's why I'm not going anywhere. A massive thank you for the hard work & time you put on this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 So much brown nosing sheeeeeeeesh! Just messing Thanks for the work you and the others do behind the scenes. We must be one the most stable/organised gaming community around in any game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagWAR Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 I think you may have just earned yourself a beer! thank you and all admins for there hard work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeTz Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Hello, First of all I want to thank you for the information you gave us on our forum.Secondly I would like to hear your experiences with gameservers.com, we need to consider to move to them aswell since YCN probably will never reply on any ticket nor they can provide us with a secure server. Thanks in advance,JT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandfox Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Hello, First of all I want to thank you for the information you gave us on our forum.Secondly I would like to hear your experiences with gameservers.com, we need to consider to move to them aswell since YCN probably will never reply on any ticket nor they can provide us with a secure server. Thanks in advance,JTGameservers.com sucks, YCN hosting sucks even more :<Go with i3D.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirre Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 If you have affort to it, buy a dedicated server. From my own experience, all GSP hosts just want to make money and because of that they have very poor gear and lots of customers/server. Lag will never go away 100%, but with a dedicated server, atleast you know it is all yours and you can tweak how much memory you want to give to et, how many cores it'll run...etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founders MrMuppet Posted October 13, 2013 Author Founders Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Gameservers are "ok" their support response times are poor, we still have some lag above 32 players on the server but you will never get a lag free server now. Gamining deluxe in the UK are good, we have a dedicated box with them and it is very good, their support times are excellent, usually within 15 minutes but they only do servers in the UK. We also have a dedibox with Hetzner but I cant comment on that yet as we have not really used it. YCN have old machines crammed with servers, little support and are constantly getting ddos attacked, cheap and cheerful as you would say. I have not used i3D.net so cant comment on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeTz Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 I think a dedicated server for such a small community we've got is too much.I understand that every host comes with problems however the amount of lag we are experiencing from YCN is way to much. We are looking for a more secure hosting provider and all these years I've heard things about gameservers.com tho I've never spoken to anyone who actually uses it. For example, the YCN control panel is quite extensive and pretty easy to use, does gameservers.com provide such an easy cp aswell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founders MrMuppet Posted October 13, 2013 Author Founders Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Very similar control panels, normal ftp access but you have no file redirect with their servers, you have to use an external source or pay for their file redirect servers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeTz Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 Seems oke to me.Thankyou! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micha! Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 If you have affort to it, buy a dedicated server. From my own experience, all GSP hosts just want to make money and because of that they have very poor gear and lots of customers/server. Lag will never go away 100%, but with a dedicated server, atleast you know it is all yours and you can tweak how much memory you want to give to et, how many cores it'll run...etc.I agree. eLemental Forces (element clan) hosted 4 servers on hetzner provider: http://www.hetzner.de/en/It's a german hoster but they had never problems with lags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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