There is a balance somewhere in middle of leaving it too long, and doing it too early.

But finding this balance is no overnight job. It requires patience and in my opinion. "lack" of insim interfeerence.

Me, I Personally feel that the biggest killer of decent racing has been insim applications.

Decent pick up racing died once people became too relient on systems similar to the old CTRA systems.

whilst for the most part i agree. i have to put 1 point across for server admins:

Quote :

Admins just need to be less frightened to use the ban button quickly before tempers start to flare

Easier said than done. The quickest way to become known as a bad admin by the general racing community is to ban quickly. Because when you do ban quickly you only end up having to ban his friend who won't shut up about it and then they both end up on a popular forum bashing your name, your server name and your team name.

The feed to the race .208 is housed in has been restored. Just waiting on the webserver now.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Quote from Feffe85 :

Sry to interupt, tho; any news?

Its deffinately an issue with the network feed affecting 3 racks right now and its being worked on at the Datacenter so it should be sorted quite soon.

what the!, thus us a bad week!. this seems to be more network related than anything.

Will know more shortly.

Yeah, Sorry.

Airio just updated on the control panel now.

Quote from Profet :

If my memory is good, the message is "out of xxxx (don't remeber what) space"

"out of multiplayer replay stash space" perhaps.

If so try disabling replay saving (Options >> Game)

see if that makes a difference.

Hi Guys,

Sorry for not keeping you updated,

The server has suffered a Hard drive failure, It will be going to a data-recovery center tomorrow to recover as much data as possible from it. However it may take upto a week to get that data back.

We will be setting up new servers for the time being so you have servers you can use, And we will get your backed up data as soon as possible.

This is only affecting users on IP: 81.19.209.206

One of our servers appears to have crashed, 81.19.209.206. We are trying to find the cause and get servers back online A.S.A.P

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Dean

Quote from Bmxtwins :

Wow I thought it would be 24 hours! Not even a half hour and its up. Thnx

Quote from CSF :

It was coming. Victor's always tried to be approachable on that subject, but lately people have been pushing him to the edge with some weird requests. It's not the final nail, leagues have never ever ever just been about having a flimmin section on the LFSforum. I helped run the SR FOX League last year, and we had no need to have a sub section, we just advertised in a way that ensured we spread the word, and it worked fine.

exactly!

As for having a mod controlling that section it would require giving permissions to both add and remove Forums / Catagories. So thats not something that is likely to happen.

/thread

Just a quick note, We are having some routing issues to the Control panel at the moment - Will update when there is more information available.

typo. fixed.. thanks

Thanks Aobrien

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Quote from sinanju :

Hi

The control panel doesn't recognise my username anymore, and I'm getting an error when I try go on the 500Servers forum.

www.500servers.com Driver Error

If you are seeing this page, it means there was a problem communicating with our database. Sometimes this error is temporary and will go away when you refresh the page. Sometimes the error will need to be fixed by an administrator before the site will become accessible again.

Also, my server (Sin'rs too (S2)) is not found on the master server.

Can you help?

Hi Sinanju,

The forum is being upgraded (as is the website) thats why you are getting the forum error.

As for the control panel and servers. can you PM me your Full name and e-mail address so i can track things down.

Regards,
Dean.

we will be giving this maintainence that we have been putting off another go. Full details can be read by customers via the 500servers control panel: http://500control.co.uk

Support ticket replied to.

shove your postcode here and i'll add it for you if need be

2.3.7a is now available as an update on 500servers.

Also the default installation has been updated to install version 2.3.7a with all the currect config files available from the Airio Free version.

i slept almost all day yesterday.. whilst i bet "somebody else" was partying!.

Happy birthday Vic, Hope it went well