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>> New to Azure Gaming?

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We hope you'll enjoy your time here.

>> Azure FPS

Azure Gaming is proud to now host First-Person Shooter games for the community to frag on. We currently offer these games:

- Counter-Strike 1.6
- Counter-Strike: Source
- Team Fortress 2
- Call of Duty 4
- Unreal Tournament 2004

We're always looking for suggestions and helpful feedback. For more information, visit the FPS game page.

>> SupremeL2 Has Moved

SupremeL2 has now become Azure Gaming: Lineage II. We're glad to welcome all SupremeL2 players, new and old, to our new home.

All of your forum accounts, game accounts, characters, items, and donations have safely moved here. Don't worry, everything is working!

For more information, visit the Lineage II game page.
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>> Network Maintenance
Posted by Aderyn on January 15, 2010 at 8:27 PMComments(9)
On the night of January 14, 2010 we started a network-wide maintenance moving all our server data from SoftLayer back onto our own hardware in our new datacenter.

Things took longer than we expected, especially with getting L2 moved back over. I apologize for not making an announcement earlier, but I didn't expect the move to take this long.

What Happened?

Our SoftLayer servers ran off SQL Server 2008 while our hardware ran off SQL Server 2005. Due to the version, I was unable to do a normal backup and restore. I had to go through a long process of manually importing the database because the database was too big to import as a text file (4 GB and 7 GB in size). In the end, it took me about 18 hours to get everything fully imported and working correctly.

I lost items/my character is wrong!

This was a temporary issue while I was investigating why the server was not working right. All your items, characters, and other data is restored to exactly how it was before we started this move.

I got a message saying my account is disabled. Am I banned?

No, you are not banned. Our login database was also being imported and had corruption issues until I redid the backup and restored it manually. Your account should be working fine now!

Network Information

Are you unable to connect, or wondering what our new addresses are? Read on.

As always, our servers are marked by their DNS names auth.azurel2com, aerith.azurel2.com, nanaki.azurel2.com, and celes.azurel2.com. Just ping or trace them to find the actual IP.

I can't connect or login!

Make sure you open your hosts file and remove any entries for our DNS names. Our IP address is updated automatically so you do not need host entries--they'll make it impossible to log in!

Closing

If you have any other questions or an issue related to this maintenance, please leave a reply here and I'll take care of it.

Thanks for understanding. Have fun gaming.

News - Azure Gaming Network
>> Network Under DDoS Attack
Posted by Aderyn on September 8, 2009 at 10:24 AMComments(110)
I was hoping this would be a small attack, but it's much bigger and longer-lasting than I first thought.

What's Going On?

As it says in the Quick News, we are currently under a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) . I have already reported the attack to the host company the attack seems to have come from. I am also working with Steadfast to put up an ACL on the edge routers, or anything else that can mitigate this attack.

Who Did This?

A Russian messaged me on IRC saying he is part of a group that takes down private servers. They demanded $5000 a week for the attack to stop. Of course, I'm not going to pay any extortionist a penny. I am sure this will get reported to the authorities once the host of these attacks fixes the problem and checks the logs.


Update September 16, 2009:

We truly apologize for the long downtime. Steadfast was unwilling to help us in any way after the first night, Sep. 9th at 1:30 AM, when they tried to filter the attack and failed. I don't know if they actually tried or lied to me, but we were basically null routed (i.e. internet disabled) for the next 6 days. That's why the website and servers were all offline.

There are status updates on our Twitter at http://twitter.com/AzureGaming.

After a lot of arguing and pleading I finally left Steadfast and rented some servers at SoftLayer in Washington D.C. I would of moved our colocated servers somewhere, but there weren't really any good options for DDoS-protected datacenters that did colocation. We almost went to Gigenet but that eventually fell through as well.

Once again, we apologize for the long downtime. We now have the website back online (as you can see) and will bring the L2 servers back up soon.

Update September 18, 2009:

We are back online and have been able to ignore the DDoS attacks we had today without any downtime. Hopefully they will realize I won't pay them anything and that they are wasting their time attacking us.

The website is up, as are the forums, and we are installing L2 and copying over the databases right now. Hopefully we can have Celes up in the next few hours. I'll update you once we are closer to being online.

L2 Back Online

Lineage II is back online. For the time being only Celes is online. We will investigate whether or not we have the resources leftover to put up Aerith and/or Nanaki. We apologize to Aerith and Nanaki players, but we do not have the monthly donations to justify purchasing dedicated servers from SoftLayer just for Aerith and Nanaki at this time.

WoW/FPS Status

Our WoW and FPS servers will be talked about as staff. We will probably put WoW on a VPS since it is still beta, and we will have to discuss what to do with the FPS servers. We will post an update regarding that in the near future.

News - Azure Gaming Network
>> Welcome World of Warcraft + Other Changes!
Posted by Aderyn on April 1, 2009 at 2:16 AMComments(58)
We are proud to announce the addition of a new game to the Azure Gaming Network! Welcome World of Warcraft, Blizzard's famous worldwide phenomenon with millions of players.

Azure Gaming: World of Warcraft

We have added Azure Gaming: World of Warcraft (from now on WoW or Azure WoW) and hope players will enjoy it. This brings us to finally fulfilling our purpose of being a gaming network. No longer are we just Lineage 2 with FPS servers.

Azure WoW will be ran by Nebi (Admin), KFL (Head Developer / Admin), and Kurapica (GM/Moderator). Our staff will work hard, along with help from L2 / FPS staff, to make a fun, stable, and successful server.

Join Azure WoW and help us beta test and fix the server.

Beta Information

The beta is 50x, with beta registration on the WoW page. Visit the Azure WoW page to get started.

Please join, download the client, and help us find bugs and fix them. We hope to go live with a 2x server in 1-2 months, once most things have been fixed.

Azure L2 Closing / Celes Delayed

We have decided that we will delay the launch of Celes until April 10th, 2010, and will focus on developing WoW instead. We hope you can understand our decision. We just don't have the staff to devote to everything at once

Aerith and Nanaki will have a Farewell Event to celebrate their long-lived, fun times as Azure L2. Please visit the Azure L2 page for more information.

Azure FPS Servers!

We are glad to announce the addition of EU servers to our FPS collection. We will be continually improving our Azure FPS collection, and we welcome you to visit the forums, jump ingame, and help make them a success. They are up for you to play on!


Thanks for all the support, and we wish the entire community a happy rest of April! Frag/Grind/Farm on!

P.S.: April Fool's Day to you! We will return the L2 servers to normal tomorrow. Everything else is NOT a joke. Enjoy WoW!

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