Yeah, tonight we had some lag issues. This is because the eternal silence server and scrim server were packed as well.

It's time to drop a tf2 server, two of them always sit empty anyway, the most I can ever get full are three. I never see all four bumpin.


I am planning to merge Tempest 1 and 3. It will be tempest 1, custom and official maps. I will also be heavily pruning the custom maps in the rotation to provide only high quality custom maps, while leaving the lesser quality ones available for voting.

I will not be removing the eternal silence server, as I will be rocking that shit when 3.0 comes out and I want to remain established as basically the only ES provider with a playerbase.


Your thoughts?

The eventual plan for this summer is this:

We've got some serious work coming up for our little company. We stand to make a bit of cash which we plan to reinvest into the community. The plan is to buy three 1u quadcore servers to take up our 3u colo cabinet space.

This will allow us to do an assload more hosting. Currently, however, we're stretched too thin.


So, while we're on the verge of collapse in the short term, I'm going to remove #3 unless someone can give me a solid argument as to why I shouldn't.

It'll reduce hardware load which has been causing the lag spikes. There's no financial reason for doing this.

We downgraded. We were renting a server box from AoWC. We own this server. The procs are slightly less powerful.

Like I said, we are planning out a mega upgrade in the summer. But... right now we're making due with what we have.

This current server is plenty powerful to run what we need, and I think four tf2 servers is getting excessive for the amount of traffic we've been seeing lately. If we can get three of them full consistently then I'll re-add it.

The current server runs all of the websites we host, as well as houses database stuff for our business. Nothing too serious though, at least in regards to affecting server performance.

The problem has been servers sharing cpus.

There are four cpus. There are six servers. When two servers on the same CPU fill up, it has to distribute the load evenly. This causes the lag because the servers aren't getting the full power of the CPU.

So there.

There are already three scrolling ads for donation related issues. Do we need more?

I am reluctant to put the current donation amount or the goal because I'd have to constantly change it as donations rolled in.

if it helps with the lag Kill it

Lag does seem to turn away a lot of new players. I'm all for this merge. However, how are you going about the pruning? Perhaps you should put all the maps up for vote (via the same system used in the tournament signup thread) and keep the top 5 or so?

[Homer Simpson]WHY YOU LITTLE!!!![/Homer Simpson]

Tempest 3 has now become tempest 1.

Tempest 1 is closed.