Constant DDoS or other problems?

[Devin]

I belive that's a point managers should raise with Gandalf themselves

And this is what we have been trying to do for the past two years. There's no point in players trying to tell us how to do our jobs.

[Tiny]

I understand that managers do not have the access to check what's happening with the server, but really. Doesn't anyone have contact with Gandalf so they can find a way to organize the server in a more proper way? All the "small" problems we have, plus the downtimes, the attacks, etc are a good way to keep the playerbase down.

If we want to get people here, we gotta first organize in order to keep the current ones. Gandalf should start working a bit more on the server (Sorry if he is, he hasn't shown any signs lately) so we have something great to show to people, so we can attract them. There are great projects like the Advertisment team, but we really can't advertise something incompleted. Props to Chase for what he has started, it's a really good step on getting the server on its feet.

I'd ask the appropriate people to start working a bit harder, and we will all help in any way. It really isn't hard if we all somehow put some effort!

[Cyril]

DDoS protection are extremely expensive yet we don't know if they are really efficient.
Gandalf isn't millionaire. He already pays for a lots of servers for us to play for free.

[Stivi]

Gandalf isn't millionaire.

Just Russian.

Also, going around saying we don't have protection is just bad, makes us even more vulnerable to hacker.

[Lustigkurre]

Okay then, we'll have to live with constant attacks. There is nothing to do. Now once we got that clear, we can focus on other things.

[Luke]

DDoS protection are extremely expensive yet we don't know if they are really efficient.
Gandalf isn't millionaire. He already pays for a lots of servers for us to play for free.

Exactly my point also, why would you moan about something you get for free as it is? There is other servers out there that charge players with memberships to play etc. for example, instead of paying 10k to change your name you have to pay a small fee. So in all bid yourselves lucky, because I myself am grateful that we don't have to pay.

[Cyril]

If you want we can charge you 2$ for a changename, 5$ for a vehicle license and so on. So Gandalf would be able to get better protections.

[Marcel]

If you want we can charge you 2$ for a changename, 5$ for a vehicle license and so on. So Gandalf would be able to get better protections.

For around €50 a month, you can get a decent dedicated server with great DDoS protection. That is nothing compared to the hundreds that are being spent right now.

[SugarD]

Just Russian.

Also, going around saying we don't have protection is just bad, makes us even more vulnerable to hacker.

We have protection from certain attacks. We just don't have military-grade, Fortune 500 corporate anti-DDoS protection.

[Marcel]

We have protection from certain attacks. We just don't have military-grade, Fortune 500 corporate anti-DDoS protection.

Fortune 500 companies rely on protection as offered by companies such as Tilera and ArborNetworks. At OVH, those protections are also being used. And all that for €50 a month.

[.Matthew.]

Fortune 500 companies rely on protection as offered by companies such as Tilera and ArborNetworks. At OVH, those protections are also being used. And all that for €50 a month.

My friend has OVH VPS, 2.00€, to be precise: 1.99€
He's soon getting a dedi for 9€ (+9€ for setup one time).

[Rusty]

I belive that's a point managers should raise with Gandalf themselves, we as community are unaware what rights managers do have and which ones they'd require in addition. If you're leader of the community you should be able to negoitate with the owner of the server yourself and explain why such action is required. Not everything turns into a drama, but 21st century is period of logistics basically, everything is expected to work smoothly, that means when something happens there's notification from managers and people get to work on the problem right away. This is not the WWI when shit goes south you just sit in the bunker and wait, perhaps the backup is comming, perhaps it's not, who knows, nobody cares (if you count out the guys sitting in the bunker and trying to survive ofcourse).

Why should I raise a point with Gandalf when my position as a Manager is to look after the Administration Team, issues with server going down is not my area.  Managers don't need access to the server directly as we don't need it and won't ever have it.  We aren't developers or Community Leaders we simply monitor and deal with issues relating to Staff (Moderators, Administrators and players for that matter).  People don't need to know what rights Managers have or don't it's not for you to know yet I just explained what we're tasked to do.

You think everything is expected to work smoothly?  What year you living in 2040? 

[Demir.]

Why should I raise a point with Gandalf when my position as a Manager is to look after the Administration Team, issues with server going down is not my area.  Managers don't need access to the server directly as we don't need it and won't ever have it.  We aren't developers or Community Leaders we simply monitor and deal with issues relating to Staff (Moderators, Administrators and players for that matter).  People don't need to know what rights Managers have or don't it's not for you to know yet I just explained what we're tasked to do.

You think everything is expected to work smoothly?  What year you living in 2040?

And bOOOOOOOOm, it's again down.

[superh2o]

Man just explained you how things work.

Just deal with it.

[Devin]

The players aren't the only ones getting frustrated with the frequent downtime, believe me.
Unfortunately there's nothing we can do about it either.