Virs Pub CS 1.6

New Ventrilo Server!

First off a huge thanks to Logical for getting the first Ventrilo server.  He has not been around much and I've wanted to talk to him about it, but alas I cannot get ahold of him (where are you Logical??).  Anyway since I could not get ahold of him I decided we need to switch our Ventrilo server so it is hosted locally.

Why you may ask?  Well first and foremost the pings will match the server.  The other server had a ping of 40-60ms for most of our players which translates into lag for our server.  Some other reasons include the fact that we have around 30 megabit of available bandwidth to use solely for the Ventrilo - something I doubt very very much we will ever even come close to approaching.  But it's nice to know it's there.

Anyway so I've setup the server and I'm playing around with all the settings.  Lots of things for me to learn.  Since I'm also learning Linux at the same time (servers located on a linux box along with this website, ftp, and mail server) that just means it's slow progress until I learn this stuff like the back of my hand.

Anyway enough of the chit chat.  Lets get to business.  Ventrilo for those of you who are newbies (just like I was as of 2 days ago) is a voice chat program, much like the ingame voice, except clearer and more powerful.  If you were to throw IRC and a VOIP phone into a blender this is what you would get.  You can download the program at:

http://www.ventrilo.com

Install it and run it.  Create your name, then add our server:

• IP:      216.185.254.101
• Port:  3784

No password needed (for now!)

So come chat a bit.  I am there myself and yes I do chat here and there.  So come visit!

New Server Host

Hey guys,

Constant Lack of Donations

Hey Guys,

  We are looking like we will be short on donations again.  This has happened quite a but past few months.  I've covered a few months out of pocket but this is starting to hurt and I cannot do it again.  So unless we reach our goals this month I will be shutting down both MonctonCS and Vir's Pub until we reach our goal.  So please donate.

  We are still proceeding on our new connection and host.  We keep getting delayed by red tape, however we are still moving on.  We also decided to get a 2nd 1000Mb internet connection along with our 100Mb connection and use our 100Mb connection for redundancy.  Yea, that's right, we will have a internet connection 10x faster than most people have for their internal network!  It's going to be very, very nice.  ETA is between now and Feb 1st, 2011.  Deadline for this connection's hookup is Feb 1st. 2011 so it should be fairly accurate.

Thanks,

-Virellek

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Server IP Changing Again!

Hey everyone!

I have good and bad news.  The good news is we will be moving to a new and much better home.  We will be moving our server from a RIM datacentre (RIM makes the Blackberry phone) to Canada's largest Datacentre in downtown Toronto at 151 front street.  This location is the main and most important datacentre for Bell, Telus, Sprint, Primus, Verizon, Hydro One, Shaw, Rogers, Cogeco, EastLink, Cogent and many, many more. 
The bad side is our IP will be changing!  Yes, I know - we JUST changed IP's!  I do not yet know the new IP's but I will post them as soon as I know what they are.

To give you an idea how important this location is for Canada, if a bomb were to blow up this building nearly every person in Ontario and Quebec would be affected with the majority going completely offline.  So it is THE BEST location we can get in Canada and I will have personal 24/7 access to it.  This means better pings, cheaper bandwidth and cheaper colocation due to the intense compeition between the companies located in this facility.

The facility itself is a 10 story datacentre and has 9 seperate trunks of fibre with roughly 10,000 strands between them all.  Bandwidth is cheap with a 100Mb dedicated fibre connection costing $400/month (the same things costs $3,600 if I located in Kitchener).  Dedicated means UNLIMITED bandwidth - not your cheezy home connection you get from Rogers.  I could download 26,000GB - thats 26 Terabytes - in a month on this connection and our host wouldn't even bat an eye at it.  Needless to say I am very excited about this connection as we have never had a location as good as this.  I just want people to realize how top notch this place is.

Our monthly cost for co-location and a connection at this location is $100/month + HST.  The company we are co-locating with is the company I am part owner of and IT Manager of - FibreXpress.  This means I not only manage our server, I manage the connection the server is getting.  Our upstream provider is Cogent - the 4th largest company specializing in creating North America/European wide fibre Networks.  You can check out their network at:

http://www.cogentco.com/img/other/networkmap_large.jpg
The network we will be on will stretch from California, USA to Kiev, Turkey.

We will also be doing some changes to the Operating System of the server as well as changing out the power supply.  Total downtime is expected to be 2-4 days.

-Virellek

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Server Nearly Up!

Hey guys,

  Server is nearly up.  The webserver is in place at it's new home.  The CS Server is also there but it is giving us a bit of trouble as it is not responding to pings.  I am working on it with my host.  It should be working tomorrow at the latest.  If things go well maybe even tonight.  You will notice posts in the forums appearing and going away - this is because we have two servers and I've been switching between them so the website doesn't go down.

  Once the server is up we still have a lot of work connecting everything back together again.  It will probably be a week before we get things back working the way they were before this whole mess.  Sorry for the delay, the server troubles set us back 4 days.

-Virellek

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