mpf MPF Mid-August (2015) Update

[&Genesis2001]

Staff resignations

 

Hawk, whom was providing a server for the community, is leaving for personal reasons. With him, the server will be going too. However, he is letting us continue using his server until the end of August.

 

Server migration

We will be performing a server migration this week onto two brand-new Limestone Networks servers. One server will be running Windows Server 2012 R2, while the other server will host two virtual machines - both Linux - for the website, Linux-based game servers, and our Subversion (SVN) repositories for our Development team.

 

Our current server with OVH will be cancelled this month. 

 

The new servers will incur an increased server bill each month, but with that, we get awesome support and upgradeable servers.

 

VM node: Web Site(s) and Linux-based game servers

 

Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2 (4c/8t) @ 3.3Ghz

8GB DDR3 ECC

2 x 1TB HDD

1000 Mbps (Gigabit) Uplink

 

USD $118.00/mo

 

Game server node: Windows-based game servers

 

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v2 (4c/8t) @ 3.5Ghz

16 GB DDR3 ECC

128 GB SSD

500 GB HDD

1000 Mbps (Gigabit) Uplink

 

USD $126.50/mo

 

 

Accounting

Game server node:       USD $126.50/moVM node:                USD $118.00/mocPanel License:         USD $13.95/moIPS License:            USD $25.00/6-months (About $4.00/mo)Leftover:               USD $7.45/mo

Our donation goal will be increasing to $270.00/mo to cover these bills (and keep the goal a round number). The leftover amount from above will be used for things the staff here agree to buy (things like cool skins, add-ons for the forums, and a rainy-day fund for the server bills.

[!zunnie]

A much needed upgrade. Performance will kick-ass on this for sure.

It costs more but for quality you pay.

This is also in the United States so its a lil more central to most players and everyone should have a good or at least somewhat better ping and all, even our Aussie players.

I just hope that the community will continue to support us in this decision both financially and by playing on our stuff.

Configuring this thing will take a while and our servers and website may go down for a little bit during this.

Thanks everyone for being a part of MPF

[!r3sur[r3Kt]]

 Gold is flowing into the treasury sire!

 

Long live MPF!

[!Hunter-Seeker]

Sorry to see you go, Hawk
Hope to see you around someday again