Savagers, please read!

[un4]

Since the twilightclan forums are down again, I'll be posting matches here 
We're going to try to have a match against Samurai X @ 9:00 PM EST on Friday.  Same TS.

Please spread the word!

Additionally, since twilightclan forums are down, Swilt and TRoN have agreed to host us for a while at www.tronclan.com.  Please register there!

Rawr,
un4.

[dharq]

Don't know what's going on with the site. Something about the DB again. I've had a ticket in (on critical status no less) since last Monday, and I still haven't gotten a response from them.

It's something to do with our database activity supposedly hitting 50k queries in a day.. But I've got a robot.txt file in place, and our average queries from users rarely tops 10k.. I'm not sure what's going on here. All I know is I'm not renewing with that host again.

[Shadowwolf]

http://www.hostedsolutions.com/data-centers/boston-data-center.php

Was formerly Boston Datacenters, ive been using them for about 4 to 5 years now and no problems, but I do dedicated servers through them and co-location so its a little different maybe. They've also just been bought out by another company so as to if the service level will change I dont know =P

I hope not but the last company I dealt with in Texas went through an acquisition and became a royal pain in the ass for me (http://cwihosting.com/). When I left they lost close to 5k of business a month at that time which was right before Boston Datacenters. I had been a customer of CWI for close to 10 years and within the last year I was with them I had similar problems you seem to be having too. Unexplained downtime, unresponsiveness, I even missed a monthly payment by 3 days as I was out of town for 3 weeks and they shut down my service. 10 years of doing business and they pulled that on me which was the last straw.

I shopped around quite a bit and Boston doesnt limit by bandwidth amount, they limit by speed. So you dont have #GB of transfer per month, they say 1.5MB / sec per month or whatever you pay for. You can essentially go above your threshold if it becomes needed for I think 30 hours a month without excess fees. Plus they are open-minded about taboo type site hosting with exceptions to like Porno. I have some sites I host dealing with security and hacking and you wouldnt believe how hard it is to find a host that wont ride me about it.

[un4]

Don't know what's going on with the site. Something about the DB again. I've had a ticket in (on critical status no less) since last Monday, and I still haven't gotten a response from them.

It's something to do with our database activity supposedly hitting 50k queries in a day.. But I've got a robot.txt file in place, and our average queries from users rarely tops 10k.. I'm not sure what's going on here. All I know is I'm not renewing with that host again.

Yeah, not blaming you at all - quite the opposite in fact.  Thanks for keeping us going there 

[un4]

Tonight's match is a scrub.
X couldn't get enough people, so we're going to try for sunday.

[dharq]

Thanks for the info Shadow.

Just checked again this morning after my trip the last 2 days, and I still have no response from their tech support. Craziness.

[un4]

They were up last night, but I'm not sure about atm.  Checking there after I'm done spamming here 

[un4]

New time!
Tonight @ 6:00 PM.  I'm working tonight, so I can't make it, but I hope we can get a team together.

Use the same TS as we did against TRoN (Shadow's - thanks! ), and kick some ass!

Samurai X clan roster:
Ghostlaw
Mugen
Myoujin Yahiko
Sakuba
Sasuke (can't make it)
Seiya
Shigure
Tokugawa
x-h2
xKenshin (clan leader)
KiLtOr (probably commanding)

I played a few games with these guys yesterday while aliased, and they're pretty good. Kiltor is a good commander and player, and Seiya is a good player. Should be an interesting match. The map is Redmeridian, and should there be a draw, the map is changed to one of the following:
aplenglow_b, bunker, choke_fixed, crossroads, eden2, lostwinter, redmeridian, riverbend_sep, snowblind.

I'd go with either eden2 or crossroads since we have much more experience with them.

For beasts, I'd go fire then strata or the reverse, depending on the length of the game you want.  Alternatively entropy + seige rush might work.  It's a large map, but easy to traverse, so don't forget to get something with range.

For humans, the good ol' mag + shield and seige rush works like a charm.  Demos would be a nice touch though.

Best of luck, and I wish I could make it. Kick some ass, guys!

[Shadowwolf]

you should get some money back for that. At the very least a cut rate on your monthly fee.

[un4]

you should get some money back for that. At the very least a cut rate on your monthly fee.

I agree.  S2 Games should pay me for working through clan matches!