A database problem with our provider has temporarily knocked out in-game admin functions.

This should be a temporary problem, and i’ll let you know when they have it fixed.

I’ve fixed up the administrative permissions for all active ODR66 members, and I would ask that you help us to continue growing our community page with new recruits.

Send along invites to everyone you play with on the server, and lets try to bring more people into the community to help bolster our populations.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/odr66

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A big thanks goes out to Oracular Egging, AKA Carrion Luggage for finding this awesome clip.

Enjoy!

Bell customers should notice that pings have improved significantly over what they have been seeing the past few days on our new primary server. The issue was a routing problem caused by Bell, and was never a problem with the quality, or configuration of the server.

I’m pleased with the new GSP’s ability to track down the issue, and get the ISP to take action. It would have been very easy for them to dismiss this issue as “not their problem”.

Please join us on our newly upgraded high performance server.

Thanks!

There is a known (and hopefully temporary) issue with our new Community Server #1 and Bell DSL customers. Below is the response from our new Game Server Provider:

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Rogers customers normally ping 5-10ms as im on Rogers myself I noticed today its abit higher than usual.

I will investigate the Rogers pings now.

As for Bell. Our Bell customers use to ping 20ms up to 1 month ago. Bell made some routing changes which affected routing to our servers.
I currently have a ticket open with my transit provider to fix the Bell issue.

You can see on our forums we are actively pursuing this issue as its affecting all our customers.

http://forums.xpservers.net/showthread.php?t=2384

PS: what was the IP of your old GSP

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If your on Bell DSL, please consider visiting our forum thread on the issue to help us collect as much information as possible on the issue.

http://www.odr66.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1624

Thanks

Guys & Gals,

As you may, or may not have heard by now, our server provider for ODR66 #1 is closing its Toronto operations on October 15th.

As a result we have been forced to source a new provider, and were able to find one located within the same data center. This new server is an upgrade over what we had previously, and is now configured and ready to go. Thanks to a completely rebuilt architecture, you will also find it much more stable then the one it is replacing.

The HLstatsX haven’t been transferred yet, but rest assured, they will be soon, and your stats will be preserved.

Our current plan is to keep the old server active until October 1st, but feel free to use the new server starting now. Please help us get the word out about the move, and check out the new home of ODR66.

See below for the new IP

Dear Team & Community,

I have completed the transition of moving odr66.com and all its web services, over to a new hosting provider.
My benchmarks have shown a 500% improvement to the speed, but it has lead to Database migration problems.
The Database is a MySQL file that contains all of your posts, messages, and accounts.

Everything is intact, but a glitch had kept me from being able to export and import the database myself properly (hence the downtime the last few days).
To get this to work I needed to post a ticket to my old provider to get the dump, then log a ticket with my new provider to get it imported. Between those two events, you guys had done some posting which wasn’t included in the prior dump. I’m doing everything I possibly can to import just those items, but it may take time, and I don’t want to risk corrupting the database that now seems to be working.

I have signed a 2 year hosting plan so this will NEVER be a problem again, and I apologize for the problem.
You can now post away without hesitation.
This upgrade will make all of our web services faster, and more scalable in the future.

Please don’t hate me

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Sev to the ODR66 admin team. Sev has been a long standing member of our community, and commands the respect of everybody he meets.

Losing RealKilla to his studies was a blow to us all, but with recent additions to the team such as Canadian, Sev, and Foilking, its clear our community is stronger than ever.

Please make sure you add them to your friends list.

Sev

Foilking

Canadian Eh Team

It turns out many of you weren’t so happy with the results of the last map vote, so here is your opportunity to set things right.

From now until Sunday September 6th, cast your vote in the forums and tell us what three maps you would like to see join Dustbowl, Goldrush, and Badwater.

Speak now, or forever hold your piece.

One of the most common questions team members field is “How Do I Join ODR66?”
It was a bit of a run around while you bounced them between admins, but today that changes.

Interested members should be directed to
http://www.odr66.com/join-odr66/

The application will be sent to Deanna, Socialized, and myself for review.

I hope this will make the recruiting process a bit easier, and make the question a bit easier for our members to answer