So all I need to do is watch porn until I see someone I know on there and I have a chance to be given 10k USD, sex with a porn star AND a bonus of 8k?!
i only celebrate black christmas.. i forgot what its called.
thanks everyone, i hope the server meets our requirements and we can get everything moved over. The goal is provide you guys the best possible experience while mitigating as many issues as we can.
Community, Lets start here, you guys probably saw the ping tests to OVH and heard some rumors. We'll settle that first. OVH failed to meet their obligation to us and we have cancelled service and requested our money back. Basically most things they advertised were false and they caused a multitude of other issues. We have made the decision to proceed with End of Reality gaming and are working with the company now. I have completed the negotiations and i think we did rather well on the deal.
Here are the specs of the server and I will post the current server for comparison.
NEW SERVER:CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1280-V3MEM: 32G DDR 1600SSD" Samsung 740 512GHDD: 1x 1TB 7200 RPMLGA 1155 Intel C202 Mobo2x 1Gbps uplink2x /29 subnet10TB Bandwidth1Gbps DDoS protection You can clearly see the improvement in every category. Lets discuss CPU. our current CPU for single threaded applications (like css/csgo/gmod) ranks 2065. the new cpu ranks 2317 and is the best cpu for single threaded apps there is. Of note is that the cpu we are getting is NOT a "stocked" cpu, they are special ordering it for us. They, so far, have seemed very willing to special order anything we want if we are accepting of the lead time and contractual obligation to do so.
The Second NIC link is actually 50/mo but i negotiated to get this free. We also got a pretty big discount after quite a few emails. Their responsiveness has been amazing thus far.
Something we have all feared is moving to new hardware and IPs changing. Well, that doesnt technically change here. If you purchase a box, there is a /29 assigned to it for tracking purposes. If you move to a new box it's a new /29. However, if we purchase a second /29 it CAN move with us. So if we break this down, lets say the first /29 is used for things that rely on dns, like bgpanel, the website, teamspeak, minecraft and a couple other things internal to staff, then the IP change wont matter, we just update dns. for the css/csgo servers where we use ip, the floater /29 would be used and can follow us to new hardware if we upgrade.
All sounds amazing right? well there is a downside.
the 1Gbps DDoS protection is 1Gbps MORE than we currently have, but will not be enough for the attacks we have seen against ZE/JB. That being the case, after we exceed the 1Gbps point, we will still be null routed. The good note is where limestone nulls us for up to 24 hours (i dont think it's been higher than this???) the MAX we can be nulled with the new host is 8 hours. The DDoS protection will cover approximately almost all of the small attacks we receive. There is no host we can afford that can take the DDoS attacks ZE/JB have experienced.
As you all know the large DDoS attacks are the primary reason we are leaving limestone. They basically told us we weren't going to be renewed because of the attacks. I have in writing from the new host that being attacked does NOT violate TOS and we will NOT be cancelled for it ever. They will null us when needed but that is all.
So, bottom line, EVERYTHING is better, there is not one single aspect of this new host that is a loss for us. The fundraiser was for a new cpu and we got it and much more. have we fixed the DDoS attacks? no. We can only address our security concerns internally and filter where possible, but if someone hits us for 10Gbps again, we will be nulled for 8 hours.
Their network is setup so that your closest ingress point to their network will be how you come in, then you ride their internal MPLS to reach our server. This SHOULD mean lower latency and less hops for any user farther away from the datacenter. Here are the pint test IP addresses.
Atlanta, GA - Test IP: atl.eoreality.net Chicago, IL - Test IP: chi.eoreality.net Dallas, TX - Test IP: dal.eoreality.net Los Angeles, CA - Test IP: lax.eoreality.net New York, NY - Test IP: ny.eoreality.net Seattle, WA - Test IP: sea.eoreality.net London, UK - Test IP: lon.eoreality.net
here are my results. 173.234.237.4423.19.172.130173.208.58.43162.251.165.531.3.246.70PING chi.eoreality.net (173.234.237.44) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 173.234.237.44: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=32.2 ms64 bytes from 173.234.237.44: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=31.4 msPING atl.eoreality.net (23.19.172.130) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 23.19.172.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=53.4 ms64 bytes from 23.19.172.130: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=40.3 msPING dal.eoreality.net (23.19.172.130) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 23.19.172.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=39.6 ms64 bytes from 23.19.172.130: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=39.9 msPING lax.eoreality.net (162.251.165.5) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 162.251.165.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=81.2 ms64 bytes from 162.251.165.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=66.0 msPING ny.eoreality.net (173.208.58.43) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 173.208.58.43: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=41.5 ms64 bytes from 173.208.58.43: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=40.3 msPING sea.eoreality.net (162.251.165.5) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 162.251.165.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=67.4 ms64 bytes from 162.251.165.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=67.9 msPING lon.eoreality.net (31.3.246.70) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 31.3.246.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=126 ms64 bytes from 31.3.246.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=109 msI will close with this. We are impressed by this host and have a good feeling, but like any responsible person, we will be testing them for a period of time before we commit to them. This is to ensure that we are able to provide the community outstanding service and ensure that donation money is well spent. thank you for reading and being members of our community.
Imma step down before I get my ass kicked off. School has taken a good amount of my time this semester and in my free time I've been playing games other than csgo. I'm still here, just not SOing. I'll probably resume my position once summer break starts.
Please don't go crazy and spam PIP and ban messages piero gave me total permisson of uploading one of his pictures in sG you can talk to him if you have any inconvenience.
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