This Friday 16th September, the servers that the dMw website, forums and game servers are located on will be moving hosting facilities. This will result in some downtime on that day. It should be no more than a few hours.
Sorry for any inconvenience during this essential move.
We are also planning a hardware upgrade that should be in place towards the end of October, details of the upgrade will be posted when it has been finalised.
TL.
Good luck for the move guys :)
MAD, keep an eye out for this when you select a match for Friday... ;)
Need a helping hand for the move? :roflmao:
And for all you nerds, this is the new facility that the servers will be going to.
iP House Datacentre
iP House is a purpose built multi-million pound data centre located within a light industrial area of London Docklands.
Datacentre Specifications:
* Substation
* Security control Room
* Power room
* UPS Switch room
* Power input 2000kva
* FM200 Gas Extinguishant
* Car parking for approx 10 vehicles within secure electric gates
* Air Handling Units (Condensers)
* Air Handling Units
* 2 x Generators
* 14,000ltr fuel tank
* Reception and Kitchen
* Inclusive technical support 8am - 8pm, 5days a week
* Out-of-hours emergency support call-out also available
* 24 hour monitoring of server connectivity & services such as http/ftp etc.
* Visual Security
o A colour CCTV system is installed throughout, which covers all external doors and the building perimeter, plant areas and car park.
o The system comprises of a series of covert fixed internal and external static cameras. (Colour). Pan / Tilt and Zoom (PTZ) cameras are positioned within the car park areas.
o PTZ dome cameras are also positioned on the corners of the building to monitor activity around the building perimeter and within the car park and plant areas. Static cameras are also installed externally to monitor those entering and exiting the building.
o All control equipment is located within the office area.
* Audio Security
o An intruder alarm system operated and controlled from the security office control room has been installed to provide protection to the perimeter and the building internally. All areas of the building are protected by PIR´s. The PIR´s are positioned such to ensure they are not activated by air conditioning etc.
* Fire Safety
o A fire extinguishing system has been installed within the equipment rooms and UPS switchroom. The system is FM200. The fire extinguishing system activates after two separate fire detection alarms.
o A smoke / gas extract system has been installed to extract smoke and gas from the floor void and from the Datacentre, discharging directly to the outside.
o The FM200 Fire suppression system has been designed, to discharge and fill the Datacentre and power room areas with in 10 seconds. The system consists of numerous FM200 storage bottles located around the perimeter of each Datacentre and UPS switchroom.
* Air Handling
o The Datacentres have been installed with down flow air conditioning units to maintain room conditions of 21oc +/- 1oc and 40% to 60% humidity. This temperature / humidity is maintained by 18 Stultz internal down-flow units (as in Salford). There are eight units installed within Datacentre room 1 and ten air conditioning units installed within Datacentre room 2.
o The UPS Switchroom has been installed with five up-flow air conditioning units to maintain room conditions as above. Additionally, the Office area is installed with a compact up-flow air-conditioning unit.
* Generators & UPS
o Two 980KVA generators are supplied via a 14,000-litre diesel tank.
o The incoming power supply to the facility is via diverse power feeds. The incoming supply is 1750KVA.
o The supply to the Datacentres is protected and filtered (Spikes, brown-outs and black-outs) via a 2000kva UPS.
Datacentre Connectivity
The following Telecommunications providers are present within IP House.
* BT
* Fibernet
* Neos Networks
* NTL
* COLT
* Cable & Wireless
* Level 3
In addition, Legend Communications has a fibre ring around London covering the major hosting centres at Telehouse North + East, Telecity Harbour Exchange and Redbus.
As a friendly comment most of the servers have been down for a long time is this why they are moving?
QuoteOriginally posted by GhostMjr@Sep 12 2005, 03:26 PM
As a friendly comment most of the servers have been down for a long time is this why they are moving?
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no
QuoteOriginally posted by GhostMjr@Sep 12 2005, 03:26 PM
As a friendly comment most of the servers have been down for a long time is this why they are moving?
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Most of the servers were down as they weren't being used and there is no point wasting server resources on stuff you're not using.
If only I had a pound for each corporate server I have seen that was running a 3D screensaver :rolleyes:
Did I miss something here?? Are we changing ISP's again?
NF
QuoteOriginally posted by Ninja_Freak@Sep 12 2005, 05:26 PM
Did I miss something here?? Are we changing ISP's again?
NF
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Nope, we're not changing ISP, but Hi-V are upgrading us to their spinky new facility :D
TL.
No self targeting machine gun platforms?
Call that secure!
:blink:
Will we have a cz server up and running soon? As all i seem to see is dmw matches but some of us can't play them so we're missing out on cz dmw style and have done for at least a week or so maybe even longer. Thanks!
cool .
the server will be going down imminently. see you in a few hours.
QuoteOriginally posted by Gandalf-LordOfJelly@Sep 16 2005, 12:35 PM
the server will be going down imminently. see you in a few hours.
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It seems to be up again...
yup, all back.
And it all went smoothly :D
feels instant so that must be good. :D
Nice ping too - a wee bit faster it seems than the old IP :D
TL.
I nearly cried.
Will the cz servers be moved accross and online tonite then?
QuoteOriginally posted by Hippy@Sep 16 2005, 04:07 PM
I nearly cried.
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Girl... :dummy:
We'll see about tonight...Fridaynight is MH night...
I take it that Dead Men Limping (http://oldbloke.acidman.com/active.asp) is no more?
If you want a backup forum I can host it on my server (runs PHP/MySQL if you need it).
Oh, well done for the move BTW :) :clap:
cant seem to log onto the avail. page though ???
:(
QuoteOriginally posted by MAD_ness@Sep 16 2005, 02:47 PM
cant seem to log onto the avail. page though ???
:(
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Works OK for me. (I just logged out of avail and back in again to check)
Just wondering something, will the servers have the same ip's or new ones?
I can't get on the availability page either btw
QuoteOriginally posted by RizZy@Sep 16 2005, 03:07 PM
Just wondering something, will the servers have the same ip's or new ones?
I can't get on the availability page either btw
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Still works for me using:
http://avail.deadmen.co.uk/avail (http://avail.deadmen.co.uk/avail)
You haven't got a hardcoded IP in your hosts file have you?
If on XP try "ipconfig /flushdns" in a command window then try again.
HTH?
I guess the servers will have new IPs.
By pinging I get:
Website: 87.240.138.19
Forum: 87.240.138.19
Avail: 87.240.138.20
All the game servers give name resolution failures so I guess there is still some work to do in DNS.
Where there was:
82.197.65.246
you should change to:
87.240.138.20
QuoteOriginally posted by OldBloke@Sep 16 2005, 04:07 PM
Where there was:
82.197.65.246
you should change to:
87.240.138.20
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If any admin has trouble opening BF2CC because it is trying to autoconnect to the old IP just close it down, open BF2CC_Config.xml in notepad (or whatever) and search for "
" without the quotes. Change the True value to read False and save your changes. You can now open BF2CC quite happily and enter the new IP in the dialog box (you can set autoconnect through options on the menu if you want to reset it :)
I've just started the TS server (forgot about that one!) Can someone test it for me as I'm still in London at the moment.
Thanks 8)
It works but on 87.240.138.19 not 87.240.138.20
yup, that is correct. Sorry, forgot to mention the ip