PSU Server Move

[Hamma]

Since opening our doors in early September we have been on quite a roller coaster ride. Our site has almost quadrupled in its bandwidth needs; our forums are expanding with more and more members every week in fact there is someone posting almost 24 hours a day. With the AGN down the road, and a ton of new features in planning and production and a highly skilled staff, this is only the beginning of our ride. PS hasn�t even come out yet! With this said, on to my announcement.

The bandwidth costs on my current host are skyrocketing. Even with the donations of our members it will be tough to continue paying the bill as we expand more and more. So I have done some research, and PSU is moving servers. We will be on our own, dedicated 2.2GHz server, the server is unmetered, what this means is we do not get charged more for the bandwidth we use. This will enable us to offer more services to everyone who visits. These services include live shout cast streams, FREE outfit hosting on our servers, more downloads and user interactive content. More details on new features will come soon.

This move will take place sometime the week of January 5-11th, most likely Wednesday. During this time there will be a forum and IRC downtime of approx 30-45 minutes, while the data is moved, and server records are updated. I will be posting more details as we get closer to transfer. :D

FYI, we will be going with XGamer.net hosting.

[Thrik]

Just out of interest, much bandwidth do you use? You don't seem to have that many huge files on here so you must have an absolute shedload of visitors to use so much bandwidth. :D

[Dyzan]

Did you colo or is this a dedicated private box?

EDIT: Never mind, looks like you went with the 1U Server - Single Processor Colocation plan. Nice.. dude that's a lot of cash, hope you're all chipping in! Make SmokeJumper pay, it's his fault for producing such a kick ass game anyway! Bastage!

It's funny yall are moving, our site is moving in a week or so, from the host aletiahosting.com to readyhosting.com crazy differences, same price. Good Luck!

:p

EDIT2: Ok, I'm going to stop guessing now.

[Hamma]

Dedicated Private It is being built for me as we speak, we pushed 140gb last month, and it will only grow. :) Its best to do this now, before more and more people get turned on to the site by beta, and release. :D

[Hamma]

Also, its always been a goal of mine to offer free hosting and forums to outfits, I want to provide that service. This will enable me to have more control, and offer the hosting without fear of extra fee's

[Dyzan]

Forums? How are you going to pull that off without licensing issues? I know Infopop and Jelsoft are like Nazi's with there software. Unless you're going with a free one like YaBB or something. Personally I love the new YaBB with the Map feature. Check it out on this guys site..

http://eliterides.com/messageboard/?board=;action=mmall;defmap=usa

With YaBB you can also integrate an IRC channel, and all your news on the main front page. It's what we'll be switching to, and best of all it's all free. My $.02.

[powdahound]

He means outfits will get a forum here on PSU... just like there is a "Tech Forum" and a "Recruiting Forum" there can be a "[Clan Name Here] Forum"

:)

I'm so excited for the move! :thumbsup:

[Hamma]

Its easy to pull off, I just create a subforum off these forums for the team. I dont plan on running 80 copies of vbulletin.

edit: dammit powda

[Dyzan]

Well, once yall get the Outfits section up and running I know we'll be throwing our name in there. Hurry up would ya.. it's not like you got anything ELSE to do. Sheesh.:rolleyes:

[SteveDemers4]

Sweet stuff... nice work Hamma

[fourleafPS]

Thanks from the community! Nice job, Hamma.

[Blitzkrieg]

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
:thumbsup:

[Hamma]

:love:

[�io]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Nohimn]

hurrah! whens the warez coming?

[�io]

Hamma is a big :nono: on warrez, that's nearly the only thing that will make him lock a thread. :p

[Dyzan]

Who said Warez.. I didn't, I said FTP.

[Hamma]

ban

[�io]

:lol:

:withx:

[Navaron]

Thanks a lot hamma, we all love you and it is so cool that you do this for us and the community. You're a good damn guy. I'm not much of a tech geek, but if you need some kinda help or favor - pm me. I'd like to help.

[CDaws]

Good luck on the move guys. Ever since I joined in December I've had a really good experiance with the site and all its staff and members. :D Hope the move goes smoothly and you guys get this site in prime time. With this much activity even before the game hits there will probably be a lot more once PS finally ships and oh buddy that will be sweet with all the new features your going to add. Good luck fellas. :thumbsup:

[Navaron]

Hamma, there's gotta be a way you can advertise on this site. I'm not suggesting pop ups, but a pic add here and there would cover your costs I think. I think it may be something you might need to look into as this site grows, plus you could make a little cash that you sooo deserve.

[Hamma]

There will never be advertisments on here ;) Other than ad's for our new host which will be discreet

There really isnt any money in advertising online anyway, Look at all the websites going under :(

[Thrik]

Problem with hosting these days is that you need a ridiculous amount of money to keep your site expanding how you want it, I hope you manage to take care of PSU's hosting fees. :D

Do you have a PayPal (http://www.paypal.com) account? If not, you should. You can then place a little button on your site such as "Donate!" and see how many people love you enough to help out. It seems silly, but I've seen a few sites get some extra cash that way to keep their hosting costs sorted. It's a nice way for people to give something back for what you do, too.

:love:

[Hamma]

Yea, there is a thread I unstuck to make way for this one hehe. I accept donations, people who donate get a fancy "Contributor" title and listed on the contributor page.

<center><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"><input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]"><input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="PSU Donations"><input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="http://www.planetside-universe.com/images/psulogosm.jpg"><input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"><input type="hidden" name="cn" value="Forum Username"><input type="hidden" name="cs" value="1"><input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"><input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0"><input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/x-click-but04.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Donate to PSU"></form></center>

There is also a button on the front page, right side ;)

[eMaGyN]

items bought at the PSU store also goes towards paying hosting fees.

Buy those Thongs people!!

:love:
eMa

[Thrik]

\o/

And unfortunately I'm not looking for any new thongs. :o

[Sputty]

I'd donate but I don't have Paypal and I couldn't...no credit card...
:(

[Hamma]

In case you didnt notice the IRC thread. We now have the new box and are in the process of transfer. The main transfer will probably take tomorrow :D

[BLuE_ZeRO]

How many thongs would you have to buy to pay for the server for a month?

[Hamma]

THe move is complete, it will take some folks a bit to get here.

[Navaron]

Good job, and thanks again hamma, I would have blown this game off if I had to hang out on the official forums.

[Sputty]

:)
Yeah, that's true. Just steer clear of them and we'll all deal with a lot less stupidity.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Start buying thongs people! This server is expensive so hamma needs extra money. We each need to buy at least 500 of them. :D