Gandalf's Servers

[Gandalf Parker]

I have good news, and I have bad news.
My main server died last night. The good news is that it seems to be the power supply so the accounts, email, domains, modding projects, and many multiplayer games hosted there should be OK. The bad news is.. unfortunately like many in the US we are having trouble just getting the mortgage paid. It might be abit before I can get it fixed. My main desktop died almot a month earlier from a different problem (half of the raid crashed) but I was holding off fixing that.
I may need to get another job.

For the many people who I have been providing free accounts and hosting in order to support the many games and projects which were spawned from the forums here and other places I sincerely apologize. But since I never charged anyone money, I only apologize a little bit.

I have tried to contact as many of you as I have addresses for (off of that server). This post is to try and fill the gap for those I missed. Those of you who have backups of your stuff, if you wish to contact me about moving you over to the lesser older server then feel free to message me here.

Gandalf Parker
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[PvK]

Thanks for letting us know, Gandalf.

[Daynarr]

Sorry to see that Gandalf.

[Ballbarian]

Thank you for the heads up Gandalf.
Sorry to hear that you are feeling the pinch out there in California. I think your state has been hit harder than most.

[NTJedi]

About 3 weeks ago the powersupply died in my most powerful system... and it killed the motherboard too!

At least you have a Fry's Electronics... also remember to check Newegg and Mwave.

[Gandalf Parker]

Updates:
Main desktop computer: still down.
Old desktop computer: still slugging away. (knock on virtual wood)

Main internet server: still down.
This affects many of the free accounts I provided. Zen, Targa, Alneyan, Ballbarian, lch, and many others. Im sorry for your items being unavailable. Also of course Dom2Minions.com, Dom3minions.com, Ballbarians excellent random generator, lch's multiplayer games, and many other domains for various games and interests of mine. One should get special note. The ShazzyShard private Ultima Online server pages are down, but the game server itself is up since I did not host that world but just the web pages. (still debating UO, WoW, SWG, CoH worlds for hosting)

Old internet server: still sludging away (knock on virtual wood again)
Other than many old Dom2minions things such as daily generating of random maps which I just never bothered to take down, it also means that the smaller games are still running. Blitz games http://game.dom3minions.com/bin/blitz_chk.cgi should be working fine, and are updated to the latest version of Dom3. Also the Shadowdale MUD (play.SDmud.org 7777) world is still running altho the SETH bot project is on hold (it was hosted on the main server) and of course the SDmud.org web pages are down. One Space Empires IV private game is still hosting from the old server, and one Stars! private game. The Dominions 3 Mid-sized games, Demo games, and Mega games died from lack of interest. It can host more but other than a request from Cor to bring up the blitz server for his group, I havent received any and even that one seems to be dying off again.

general update
While I do have the concern of the budget manager for my mental health Im afraid that repairs of my toys are still not at the top of the needs list. And considering what is on these machines, Im not tempted to tackled it as a do-it-yourself effort. If this causes anyone extreme problems then please contact me and I will try to make other arrangements to at least get your stuff online someplace.

Gandalf Parker
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