A couple oof questions about ign

Sonic · 10-02-2000 5:41pm #1

well with a few posts here about server im just curious

1. where are the ign servers , ie are they in the indigo offices???? are the in the indigo subnet???

2. what are the servers , ie is there a seperate web server and maybe 1 or 2 games servers????

3. lets say i wanted to set up a q3 server on eircoms servers or any isp for that matter and talked to them ( ie a clan server ) would it be difficult to talk them around and would it cost alot??

Cloud · 10-02-2000 5:52pm

IGN servers are in the eircom net offices in Temple Bar.

We have 5 server boxes, Quake (QW servers), Kali (Kali and Web), Vishnu (Q3), Horsebox (Tribes and HL), Eddie (Q2 and UT).

As for getting your own server into eircom, I'd say the chances are easier of going to the moon. Plant a flag for me too!

DeVore · 10-02-2000 6:06pm

You would have to pay Eircom for the privilege. Approx 20,000 for your box to be installed on a decent enough (read: 256-512K) line.

The IGN lives on sufferance, good will and ignorance of our existance for the most part.

With the cataclysmic changes happening in the Irish net (from our fish eye view) we have to face the possibility that, just like Indigo and IOL servers before, we can be cut off with no grounds for complaint.
In that instance, we'd have to have somewhere to communicate developments as the boards would go too.

The likelyhood is that we could renegotiate with someone else but that could take weeks if not months and how do we inform everyone of our new home?

A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that the IGN has some copper fastened contract and has Globex Corporation style funding. It just isnt so and with one flick of a switch, we just cease to be a community.
Indigo did it before and IOL did it before that too, so it can happen unfortunately...

Dont despair, thats the reality but there is no reason to think anything is going to happen, at least not before we become partly self sufficent.

Tom.

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BossArky · 10-02-2000 6:11pm

Sonic get up here and fix my pc!!

Cloud · 10-02-2000 6:12pm

Never fear, my patronage will last forever.

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Just don't call me Mr. Scorpion.

FurY · 10-02-2000 8:23pm

Any1 ever thought of approaching Esat regarding games servers??
[ps]SéaN

samresh · 10-02-2000 8:44pm

I DIDNT POST THAT

it must be some crook

Kali · 10-02-2000 9:09pm

spot the boredom.
haha

Sonic · 10-02-2000 9:51pm

thanks john and tom , hmm 20k looks like ill be saving for another few century's

Spoonman · 11-02-2000 12:21am

Is their any need for TWO quake2 servers, their both always empty. At least can we put it down to one server (war1) and free up some resources for the ut servers which are used regularly.

Just a sugestion, sorry if I sound *****y.

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gandalf · 11-02-2000 12:36am

Yeah Slap up a UT Headhunters Server instead of those Q2 ones.

Gandalf the weird mod lad

WhiteWashMan · 11-02-2000 1:25am

ack!
i tried to get cloud to take down one of the q2 servers before and he didnt..naughty john

speakng of isps.
what ever happened to the dna onjes
remember they used to run a few games servers but everyones pings were just so goddamn crap we never played there..could be worth looking at in the case of a catastrophy

ButcherOfNog · 11-02-2000 10:38am

there is no need for 2 q2 servers.

Cloud · 11-02-2000 11:32am

Okay I'll see what I can do.

J.
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Vorosha · 11-02-2000 11:44am

Please, could everyone just stop talking about UT.

Canaboid · 11-02-2000 2:20pm

Isn't UT great.

Cloud · 11-02-2000 3:09pm

Okay I've taken the Q2 servers off thut box and testing 1 UT Assault server there instead of the 2 Q2 servers - if the box is overloaded and / or players are finding it laggier we can just leave the box with the 2 old UT servers. Posted on the UT board about it anyway. I guess if I mention UT any more times that guy who doesn't like UT might explode or something like thut.