tuxotaku
05-15-2008, 04:18 PM
Hey guys,
It's me again. the dude from the Rev3 IRC chatrooms. :p
First of all I would just like to say thank you to all the people who have helped make Zone-9 what it is now, and I don't just mean my fellow server administrators. Each one of you here who has signed on to the chat and spent some time there have, in your own way contributed to the community.
I'd also like to thank all the Revision3 staff who take time out of their busy lives to chat with all of us, you make us all feel like we actually matter to you as fans, peers and fellow geeks.
All gushing aside, you may have noticed over the course of the last few weeks, we have been having some network outages.
Since the popularity of our little chat network has boomed over the last few weeks, Our network of three servers has been put to the test. We have endured Spam Botnet attacks, DDoS attempts, routing problems, and we just keep coming back for more.
So, bearing these issues in mind, we've decided it is in our best interest to expand the network to a fourth (and possibly fifth) server. By our estimates, these servers do not need to be anything super-powerful. In fact, a simple Virtual Machine running on a host server (also known as a VPS or VDS [virtual private/dedicated server] ) would more than suffice, and would allow us to grow and expand as we need without the astronomical overhead cost of running a bare iron server or colocating in a datacenter
We can't do this alone however, we need your support.
We're not asking for much at all. Hosting costs for the new server will be under $10/month, So I think between all of us, we can surely come up with such a negligible amount.
It's me again. the dude from the Rev3 IRC chatrooms. :p
First of all I would just like to say thank you to all the people who have helped make Zone-9 what it is now, and I don't just mean my fellow server administrators. Each one of you here who has signed on to the chat and spent some time there have, in your own way contributed to the community.
I'd also like to thank all the Revision3 staff who take time out of their busy lives to chat with all of us, you make us all feel like we actually matter to you as fans, peers and fellow geeks.
All gushing aside, you may have noticed over the course of the last few weeks, we have been having some network outages.
Since the popularity of our little chat network has boomed over the last few weeks, Our network of three servers has been put to the test. We have endured Spam Botnet attacks, DDoS attempts, routing problems, and we just keep coming back for more.
So, bearing these issues in mind, we've decided it is in our best interest to expand the network to a fourth (and possibly fifth) server. By our estimates, these servers do not need to be anything super-powerful. In fact, a simple Virtual Machine running on a host server (also known as a VPS or VDS [virtual private/dedicated server] ) would more than suffice, and would allow us to grow and expand as we need without the astronomical overhead cost of running a bare iron server or colocating in a datacenter
We can't do this alone however, we need your support.
We're not asking for much at all. Hosting costs for the new server will be under $10/month, So I think between all of us, we can surely come up with such a negligible amount.