Quote from franky500 :

Final few bits happening now, ALL servers should be back online within the next hour now.

The next hour has expired Franky and my server is still off-line?

Any news please of when we can expect to see S3 available please? My debit card awaits the best racing-game/simulator ever.

I do hope your father recovers quickly Franky and please accept my apologies for 'sounding off'? Health issues are always important, Thank you for repairing the servers, it's much appreciated.

Quote from gandlers :

Yes, all of the 500servers network appears to be down. This includes customer Webhosting, their own website and all of the game servers.

500control.co.uk still works as it appears to be on a different network and uses different name servers.

Now you can bitch and gripe about this, but you get what you pay for. If you want a service that will never experience problems you need to get real. The internet is built on hardware and bandwidth that is both very expensive and will sometimes go faulty. Equipment and connections can and will develop faults, to build a network that is fully resilient requires at least twice the hardware and bandwidth. This means that to do this the network will be twice as expensive and cost twice as much to run and maintain. In order to sustain this business someone has to pay for the extra hardware and interenet bandwidth, that will be us the customers. The cost of server rental will be significantly higher, then you will bitch about price...

Im sure it is well known within 500servers that there is something major causing network wide problems, they are more than likely dealing with it, but as it happened at the weekend, there will be fewer people available to work on resolving this, and they may not even be able to get replacement hardware until Monday.

Yeah this isnt great, my website has been down since yesterday tea time, the LFS servers I have admin rights on are all down and I am forced to use other server full of halfwits and crashers.

Posting the same messages over and over moaning that stuff being down and it is unacceptable isnt helping and will do nothing to expedite the resolution of this problem.

Your explanation although sensible does tend to rather miss the point

Paying customers have a right to complain. What makes things worse though is the fact that 'Franky aka Dean' can't be bothered to come here to actually explain the reasons for the downtime and to give us some idea as to how long to expect this to continue. This lack of communication only leads to further dissapointment.
If he is interested in continuing his business he should come here and explain, at the very least, he alone owes us this.

Quote from z-ro 8 :

Highly uneccessary comment.

Your location rather says it all describing your limited intelligence.

Dean, you just ruined our race night. 'Schumie' is down again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from cyclo :

lol i am not english you are english so its to easy for u to say that i am not good in enlish

Your not English, your so right! We wouldn't even let you be either.

That doesen't give you the right to use stupid insults on an English speaking only forum.

Go and play with your sand tray and come back here when you have less time.

BTW isn't it past your bedtime already?

Quote from cyclo :

you have diffrent autism pddnos adhd ect so :P?
everbody i diffrent but if you have autism its very hard to life because some ppl try to be death

Okay tossa, if you find it so hard to speak english, just go away and spend some time learning eh? Your spelling is completely unreadable.

Do not overtax your 'little retarded brain' any further.

The reason that Hamilton has now had 2 DNF's is because of his aggressive driving. He got away with it in GP2 and thinks he can do the same in F1. He is finding out that the F1 boys won't stand for this kind of intimidation and when Hamilton places his car 'in-the-way' he gets his comeuppance.

Then to top it all' he throws a steering wheel costing a mere £150,000 onto the floor! I hope he pays for a new one? What a tosser eh?

Well, what happened guys? You missed the first event but there's still time to join.

The Event 2, is with the FO8 and WE1R. LFS Experts required?

As it happens I know Walter very well.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

From Nurburgring's chairman, I think he mailed him a few weeks ago.

Proof is stronger than thoughts, surely?

Quote from rockclan :

Nice little hint there.

Everyone knows the one and only Nordsleife is coming to LFS, and that everyone will love it, and that LFS will become the best again.

Where did you get that from?

Quote from Hankstar :

Nordschleife? Yes, that was me.

I would pay whatever it cost's for that.

I'll look forward to viewing that

Quote from baSh0r :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX4wyfkEYhY&vq=hd1080

A Battle in the last Laps of the Team Inferno Cup.

This venue was hold on the traditional South City Chicane circuit with the finnish sports-car Raceabout. Enjoy the final laps from the view of Marius Golombeck. Starring furthermore: Radek Müller & Martin Krönke.

Make sure you view it in Full HD 1080p Enjoy

Marius, I have to compliment you on the best footage I ever seen.
Your car control was exemplary. Well done but, where was Jorn?

Yep, 'Schumie' too.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

http://forum.iemit.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=4535

Good luck maintaining a decent turn-up rate for 21 events

If it's worth proving something, durability will be part of the achievement.

Well, you all have the chance to take that honour by joining the new 'Expert' series at www.iemit.com . Starting next month (September) at one race per fortnight.

The winner will prove to be the person that can race any car in LFS on a large number of tracks, both Road and Dirt.

Hurry though, places are limited to the first 20. After that you go into the reserves.

Everything is sorted now so stop flaming!

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

Quote from dadge :

when did you email franky? was it during working hours? if so, this would not have been seen to as quickly as maybe sending it after working hours. and i'll let you know why this is ok. wait for it, because franky actually works outs side of LFS too. so the time he has remaining out of his day, he puts into 500servers. have you not been following the "spring cleaning " thread he opened up to inform his customers that he is cleaning up his servers so that they can run better in the long run.
you have read that haven't you? because if you did read it, you'd realise that he is running behind a bit with this cleaning but he is working flat out to get it sorted asap.

small question g7usl, do you have a job? if so, when you finish your work do you boot up your pc and go back to work or do you play games? hissy fits get nothing done. breath when typing, it really helps.

To answer your first question, I do not have Franky's email address.
2. I resent your sarcasm, that my friend is the lowest form of wit.
3. I do not know of Franky's personal life other than that he is my LFS supplier and that's really all that concerns me.
4. Yes, I did receive information regarding a new computer and HDD as the previous one, seemingly more reliable than the new one, was slightly unreliable but at least it didn't pack up for more than a couple of hours! This new one has been off for 3 days to my knowledge.
3. No I don't have a job. I am 69 now and probably worked harder than you ever dreamed of, in my 52 years. I resent this sarcastic question and demand your apology please?
Lastly, as you appear to know franky, very well, you should be offering your personal help instead of showing us your real detestable self on here.

Finally, If I am paying someone for a service I am not getting, I have a right to complain if I'm not getting it and what I do with my time is no business of yours.

As it happens, I lost count of the one server crashes that my server has suffered this year, hence the remark. and guess what, It's down now too!

I'm sorry to inform you that we ARE losing drivers now. I cannot remember when your servers were off longer than now.

A bit of information regarding progress would be appreciated?