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Okay guys, the EvilNET IRC has been experiencing problems, as of late, with it's current IRC service provider. Random, over-broad bans, unresponsive mods, etc. As such, the decision was made to move the IRC group off to another service. As we control our own DNS, it took a massive effort of about three minutes with a word text editor to make the changes. The lengths we go to..... Anyhow, as such, we're in the process of moving off to a network known as slashnet.org. Here are the current server mappings: irc.evilnet.net Random Server on the network irc2.evilnet.net irc3.evilnet.net irc4.evilnet.net irc5.evilnet.net irc6.evilnet.net irc7.evilnet.net us.evilnet.net Random US Server eu.evilnet.net Random European Server au.evilnet.net Random Australian Server This change-over should aleviate most, if not all, of the problems we've been experiencing. If you have any questions, comments, grips, etc, feel free to e-mail me. |
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My apologies for the abrupt loss of the CBT.com domain guys. Some work is being done on the server and the website to find out exactly what's been causing a MASSIVE overload on the server over the last few days. We had to shut the site down for a short while so that we could dig around in the server without it coming to a standstill. CBT.com will be back shortly. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. |
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Okay. Coming up on November 14th of 2003, it'll have been one year since the billing for EvilNET was taken over by our host, PurpleHat.net. Unfortunately, it hasn't gone smoothly at all. In that timeframe, I've received exactly TWO payments from users of our services. And only ONE has actually switched over to a standard PurpleHat account. Essentially, some of you have gotten a year of free hosting from us. That's ending quite soon though. As of yesterday, every user on the server was notified by e-mail that they had exactly 30 days to either remove their content from the server, or to transition over to a paying PurpleHat account. After that time, the user account will be deleted, along with the contents of the user's directory. |
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Okay. Two things here for edification. FIRST!I probably should have posted this to the main page before. Currently EvilNET is outgrowing it's main server's capacity. Most of this load is from the SQL daemon (which is handling lots of interactive content for various accounts). While it's nice that our server is able to provide dynamic content for people, it's usually a Bad Thing <TM;> when it comes at the cost of drowning out the ability of your web server to function. So we're collaborating with PurpleHat, our connectivity provider, to implement another system. The new box will act as a dedicated SQL server, taking the load off the main system. In the mean time, we've lowered the connection limit on the SQL daemon to prevent it from gobbling up the server and spitting it out. The connection limit hasn't been DRASTICALLY lowered. Just enough to keep things functional. However, this is going to result in some dropped connections for people using services connected to the SQL server (some message boards). For the most part, people will merely have to refresh a page, or back up and go forward again. Annoying, but not a soul-sucking experience. This will also result in a number of errors being generated by individual databases, essentially telling you that the database doesn't like it when it's connection limit has been reached. Please be patient with us. The new server should be implemented in short order, and the connection limits will be removed. SECONDAn FYI, currently our IRC connection is a bit sharky. IRCWorld.org is experiencing connectivity issues of an unspecified nature. The service should resume, reliably, soon. |
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Hi guys. Just thought you should know, and just in case someone I missed in e-mail happens to check here. EvilNET will be experiencing a short bit of down time on Friday, April 25th at approximately 8 P.M. Eastern Time. We're moving the server from the cabinet it's currently in, to a dedicated cabinet a bit further down the row. We should be down 15-20 minutes at the most. If you have any questions about it, e-mail me. |
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