Cain
26th Jul 2008, 11:36 AM
Big news, but a little history first.
I started running game servers 10 years ago, when I talked a local ISP into hosting my first Quake 2 server. That local ISP was called "Netside" later renamed Logicsouth. Logicsouth was later purchased and the new owners were kind enough to allow us to stay, and continue to use their bandwidth.
For years the number of servers we could run were limited by two things, CPU/hardware available and bandwidth available. These limitations are not present on leased servers like our ranked BF2/2142 boxes but then the limiting factor QUICKLY becomes money, because those servers are very expensive to rent monthly.
OK, fast forward to today. Logicsouth is doing better than ever financially and has opened new lines of business to run very high speed fiber optic into new housing subdivisions. This service has necessitated them substantially increasing their available bandwidth, so that limiting factor for our servers housed there was fading away. The next limiting factor was hardware.
I decided to use our .3 box to host our new forums, so we lost it for gaming, however to be honest it was getting a little old to be running the newest game servers - with the player counts I prefer. So the only box I had available for games was the .2 box, which is home to our wildly successful COD4 TDM Server. There was a time when the .2 was cutting edge and I built it to run 32 player UT 2004 ONS - which was also wildly successful.
Back to us, so we set up new Forums and started soliciting and collecting subscriptions and donations -- to pay the bills and purchase a new server - so we could run more games.
A few weeks back I took all our subscriptions, all our donations, the money we "won" from that 2142 server many of you participated in, and a substantial contribution from our very own BlackArrow .. and bought us a new kick-ass-fire-breathing server !!!
Logicsouth was generous enough to give us a new dedicated IP address, for our new server, in the same sequence as out other IPs: 63.113.60.4 -- here after referred to as .4
Stats on our new server:
Dell Poweredge 2900 III:
Dual Core Xeon Processors X5260, 6MB Cache, 3.33GHz 1333MHz FSB
4GB 667MHz (4X1GB), Dual Ranked Fully Buffered DIMMs
146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug HardDrive
Rack Chassis with Sliding Rapid/Versa Rails, Universal
If you are a real Geek, click below for more details server info and photos of the new box, sitting happily on top if the other boxes ... one box to rule them all.. as they say.
I wanna see the new Server !!!!!!! (http://www.cainslair.com/babox1.htm)
What does all this mean ??
It means we can add new games, it means I can allow older, but still popular games to stick around longer, and it means we can more freely experiment with game servers than I could in the past.
I want to sincerely thank all who donated, subscribed and supported us, but I really want to thank BlackArrow because all the donations and subscriptions came up quite a bit short of what was necessary to purchase this new server box (thank him when you see him in-game).
Our next move is some game server stuff that is costing me about $1,000.00 that I'll talk about later, so the bottom line here folks is we are back in the red again, so please don't forget to make some donations when you can - all the money ends right back up into the Forums, web pages, game servers, rented boxes, bandwidth, etc.
The size of our Community, the games we run, and so forth are always only limited by money. The more money we have, the more people we can attract, and the more games we can run, which will attract more people, more money and more games.
Once again, thank you to all who contribute and help out here !!!
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I started running game servers 10 years ago, when I talked a local ISP into hosting my first Quake 2 server. That local ISP was called "Netside" later renamed Logicsouth. Logicsouth was later purchased and the new owners were kind enough to allow us to stay, and continue to use their bandwidth.
For years the number of servers we could run were limited by two things, CPU/hardware available and bandwidth available. These limitations are not present on leased servers like our ranked BF2/2142 boxes but then the limiting factor QUICKLY becomes money, because those servers are very expensive to rent monthly.
OK, fast forward to today. Logicsouth is doing better than ever financially and has opened new lines of business to run very high speed fiber optic into new housing subdivisions. This service has necessitated them substantially increasing their available bandwidth, so that limiting factor for our servers housed there was fading away. The next limiting factor was hardware.
I decided to use our .3 box to host our new forums, so we lost it for gaming, however to be honest it was getting a little old to be running the newest game servers - with the player counts I prefer. So the only box I had available for games was the .2 box, which is home to our wildly successful COD4 TDM Server. There was a time when the .2 was cutting edge and I built it to run 32 player UT 2004 ONS - which was also wildly successful.
Back to us, so we set up new Forums and started soliciting and collecting subscriptions and donations -- to pay the bills and purchase a new server - so we could run more games.
A few weeks back I took all our subscriptions, all our donations, the money we "won" from that 2142 server many of you participated in, and a substantial contribution from our very own BlackArrow .. and bought us a new kick-ass-fire-breathing server !!!
Logicsouth was generous enough to give us a new dedicated IP address, for our new server, in the same sequence as out other IPs: 63.113.60.4 -- here after referred to as .4
Stats on our new server:
Dell Poweredge 2900 III:
Dual Core Xeon Processors X5260, 6MB Cache, 3.33GHz 1333MHz FSB
4GB 667MHz (4X1GB), Dual Ranked Fully Buffered DIMMs
146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug HardDrive
Rack Chassis with Sliding Rapid/Versa Rails, Universal
If you are a real Geek, click below for more details server info and photos of the new box, sitting happily on top if the other boxes ... one box to rule them all.. as they say.
I wanna see the new Server !!!!!!! (http://www.cainslair.com/babox1.htm)
What does all this mean ??
It means we can add new games, it means I can allow older, but still popular games to stick around longer, and it means we can more freely experiment with game servers than I could in the past.
I want to sincerely thank all who donated, subscribed and supported us, but I really want to thank BlackArrow because all the donations and subscriptions came up quite a bit short of what was necessary to purchase this new server box (thank him when you see him in-game).
Our next move is some game server stuff that is costing me about $1,000.00 that I'll talk about later, so the bottom line here folks is we are back in the red again, so please don't forget to make some donations when you can - all the money ends right back up into the Forums, web pages, game servers, rented boxes, bandwidth, etc.
The size of our Community, the games we run, and so forth are always only limited by money. The more money we have, the more people we can attract, and the more games we can run, which will attract more people, more money and more games.
Once again, thank you to all who contribute and help out here !!!
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