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Hi everyone, and welcome back to halflife2.net. The last few weeks have been a bit of a nightmare for us, but we've managed to get everything back up and running, and now with a nice new site design, and loads of new content.
When we went offline around 13th March due to a bit of a dispute with our last host, we seemed to be dead in the water. It didn't look like there was anyone willing to sponsor a site that uses as much bandwidth as we do. We were close to buying our own webserver, with a few staff members donating money towards it with the hope of getting some advertising revenue, when Chris_D decided to contact Gabe Newell at Valve.
Gabe put us in touch with Erik Johnson, who planned to get our site up as quickly as possible on Valve's own webservers. This proved to be a bit more of a problem than anyone anticipated, with the Valve servers not really having the facilities in place to host outside sites.
At this point, Erik put us in touch with Mike Apgar at Speakeasy.net, who we were in discussions with for just over a week. As we were deliberating over going with Speakeasy's offer, Erik contacted us again, saying that we would probably be better suited by going with the company who they are moving all of their websites to, Limelight Networks. At this point I'd like to thank Mike Apgar from Speakeasy for being very helpful and offering us what looked to be a good deal. Whilst we chose not to go down this route, I'd recommend Speakeasy if any big sites are looking for hosting.
Limelight then gave us a server to set up and run our site on just over a week ago. Since then, we've been helped vastly by Bryn Moslow from Valve, who has put a lot of effort into setting up and configuring the server so that it works. Without him we'd probably still be sitting at a bash prompt without anything configured.
So, in no particular order, I'd like to thank the following people for helping us out over the last few weeks...
Gabe Newell, Erik Johnson, and Bryn Moslow from Valve
Mike Apgar and Edward Bender from Speakeasy.net
Mohan Kokal from Limelight Networks
Extra thanks to Limelight Networks (http://www.llnw.com) for helping out and providing a server and bandwidth for us to use.
Hopefully we'll be back for the forseeable future.
Now go and look around our new content.
When we went offline around 13th March due to a bit of a dispute with our last host, we seemed to be dead in the water. It didn't look like there was anyone willing to sponsor a site that uses as much bandwidth as we do. We were close to buying our own webserver, with a few staff members donating money towards it with the hope of getting some advertising revenue, when Chris_D decided to contact Gabe Newell at Valve.
Gabe put us in touch with Erik Johnson, who planned to get our site up as quickly as possible on Valve's own webservers. This proved to be a bit more of a problem than anyone anticipated, with the Valve servers not really having the facilities in place to host outside sites.
At this point, Erik put us in touch with Mike Apgar at Speakeasy.net, who we were in discussions with for just over a week. As we were deliberating over going with Speakeasy's offer, Erik contacted us again, saying that we would probably be better suited by going with the company who they are moving all of their websites to, Limelight Networks. At this point I'd like to thank Mike Apgar from Speakeasy for being very helpful and offering us what looked to be a good deal. Whilst we chose not to go down this route, I'd recommend Speakeasy if any big sites are looking for hosting.
Limelight then gave us a server to set up and run our site on just over a week ago. Since then, we've been helped vastly by Bryn Moslow from Valve, who has put a lot of effort into setting up and configuring the server so that it works. Without him we'd probably still be sitting at a bash prompt without anything configured.
So, in no particular order, I'd like to thank the following people for helping us out over the last few weeks...
Gabe Newell, Erik Johnson, and Bryn Moslow from Valve
Mike Apgar and Edward Bender from Speakeasy.net
Mohan Kokal from Limelight Networks
Extra thanks to Limelight Networks (http://www.llnw.com) for helping out and providing a server and bandwidth for us to use.
Hopefully we'll be back for the forseeable future.
Now go and look around our new content.
