FYI Chris and I are going to be installing the new hardware this weekend. I hope vman can give me a huge hand in this.
I will spearhead the CZ server first, this is how it is going to go down:
Phase 1) Put up the test CZ server (an exact replica of the pub from about 4 months ago), test pings, cpu usage, bandwidth etc. (this should take me a few days at most).
Phase 2) I will overhaul the pub, on the test server, so it will NOT affect the splak pub, this includes all new AMX version, upgrade all the plugins: map chooser, team attack program (atac), etc etc. Then I will hopefully be done with all my map work, can strip all the bad maps out of cycle and then if the pings and everything are good, Splak will move over to this pub, if the pings are bad, then I will continue paying for the pub and I will simply copy all the files from the updated test server to the pub, upgrading the pub!
Phase 3) This will be going on WHILE I am doing my phase 2, I will let vman, storm, whoever I trust with this job, to start installing servers (1.6, cz cal rotation, cs:source, cs:source custom/nippermaps, tf2, dod:source gun game) whatever they want. We will be doing this 1 at a time to see how the computer handles it, and so I can monitor bandwith, like 1 server a month or so. If we hit a cpu or memory limit, and have plenty of bandwith, and everything is going awesome, I will cough up the money and build a cheap stripped down quad core server rig (like $400-500).
That is alot of work for us to do, so I really hope we can get this done, I think we are in the perfect position to expand the clan to other games, I also think we should ALWAYS keep splak's strict recruitment guidelines, but we need to expand our clan (not huge or anything, but would like to get some more good quality people, and this whole project will help keep our current members interested, I see this as a necessity).
All that being said, I am super busy, race season just started back, this past month I had to get my bike all built back up since my wreck, bike was 100% this past weekend, but it rained on us so I only got to do some slow rain laps, was still happy with the bike though. I also have a new chick, so that is taking up some time too. Sorry I have not been around a bunch, but I have not forgotten about the clan been working hard on splak, and plan on splak being better than it every was, after this expansion!
_________________ -- .:Splak|StackableNut --Cornholio wrote: blah thats nothing, i built houses for pirates, then do pirating myself. Then I shoot my self and perform bullet removal surgery on myself. After that I go to boot camps to train kids to kill. Then i go and fight on the Iraq war for both sides. After all i go later and drink some 7up cause ill be thirsty as shit.
|