Status of PlagueFest #1 and PlagueFest #2

PlagueFest #2 is currently online. I have been doing a lot of work which the server resides on, in an effort to improve server performance and help server stability. I have done various kernel-level changes as well as some minor server-side changes. The server should be more stable now.

PlagueFest #1 is, however, a much different story. The box which the server was hosted on had some hardware failures. This means that I will have to restore the server, however, this time, it will be on another, much more powerful box. The server will be moved to a Chicago location box and the hardware in it will be a lot better than it was in the old server. On top of better hardware, there is a much better, game server optimized Linux kernel. The mixture of those two changes will result in a server with better gameplay. This includes better registry and a lot less lag. I have been working on getting #1 up for most of the night and I am nearly done. I plan on having it back up and running with the new IP today. All there is to do now is to do some minor adjustments to the server, as it is essentially a copy of PlagueFest #2 with a few more escape maps added. Therefore, since PlagueFest #2 is a PlagueFest #1 with a few extra maps, it will be easy to Change the PlagueFest #2 changes and turn it into PlagueFest #1 again. Makes perfect since, right? I will attempt to bring the old server back online as a redirect-server to help aide the move.

The new server can be found here:

66.225.198.110:27015

Thanks Ray XDD

now I won't get 1337 ping from the server being 250 miles away anymore. I always get crap pings to the east coast :/

yay, it's been a dark weekend with zombie mod. :[ I've been nice to people. D':

Awesooooooooooooooome

im up in Minnesota so its just moving closer hurray for me.

Find Ck for us and bring him back.

the colors are rainbow i guess our server isnt a closet fag any more.

I heard the old server will re-rout peeps to the new one. I think you can set it up so that it will actually show the statistics of the new server on it. Been a while since I did it had my friends do it for me.

why are we gay now?..or well showing it now at least?


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aww why did you change it?

Texas is considered the South, not Mid-West. The server went from being ~162 miles away to over 1,162 miles which killed my ping on the server. I don't have the right to complain, and others probably benefited from it, but with my ping going from ~30 to over ~150, it's going to be very annoying to play on the ZM server now.

The server move will benefit Canadians the most, but is your ping seriously that much higher now?

I've always had abysmal pings to anything in the Eastern US (anything farther than Arkansas), but don't have problems with Central or anything in the West. Every time I tracert to a server in the Eastern US, it always gets stuck at several routers along the way that have horrible pings. It would have been nice for it to be in a central location like Dallas that has fat pipes to everywhere, but it's not my call where anything goes.

I used to have a server in Washington State and got 50-70 ms pings, but to the new server in Chicago I get 110-150 and to NY, its way up in the 250-300 range.

I'm not going to bitch about it further because me getting crappy pings doesn't justify everyone dropping everything just to fix my problem.

So now the server isnt a gay anymore so i guess our server isnt happy

I think it benefits most people by moving to Chicago. Well at least it benefits the people that matter.

What happened to pf2? oO

In an effort to populate the main server I temporarily closed it.

I own a 2x dualcore 3.2GHZ Xeon with 8 GB ram

WAIT OMFG its.... its.... RAIN!

*looks for blue moon*
Welcome back