Merry Christmas! Santa brought us back the Borg Servers! ^_^

Ok, it wasn’t Santa’s work.
But, thanks to the efforts of Hammer and Faster, Borg Servers didn’t stop, in the face of the VIP (see previous post for more infos) who was attacking those.
And now, since Faster upgraded the Linux OS and the integrated firewall to the latest version, now our servers are rock-solid again and no more DDoS attack vulnerable.
That’s why they’re back to the old hosting with the old faithful IPs.

So, KEEP NOTE!
BORG SERVERS ARE BACK, playables at the following IPs:

- 85.17.90.133:27960 for Borg CTF
- 85.17.90.133:27970 for Borg Pro

So, Quake3 Gamers of all the world, please allow us to greet you all our best

* * MERRY CHRISTMAS!! * *

And don’t stop playing on our servers!
Your pleasure. Our satisfaction.

Best Regards.
The BorgTeam.

Borg Servers moved to Alternate IP for a while

Well, as lots of you probably noticed, Borgs servers were down in the last days.

The fact is — they were (and actually still ARE) under attack. Somekind of VIP (very intelligent people) decided that it should be a nice idea to throw 70mbit of traffic on a game server, and that’s why Hammer and Taras quitted that for a while, to check if this would have result in stopping the attack itself.

Unfortunately, each time they tried to restart the servers, the attack restarted itself, and this was no longer endurable.

So, Hammer temporary moved the servers to another IP, giving him and Faster all the time to fix the problem and set up a working defense against those shitty attackers.

The new IPs are the followings:

- 95.211.136.33:27962 for Borg CTF
- 95.211.136.33:27970 for Borg Pro

Of course, we will let you know every update concerning this, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, enjoy our servers again, on the new IPs.

Best Regards.
The BorgTeam.

* SERVICE COMMUNICATION *

As you all probably noticed, all Borg Game Servers are actually down.
We know that, it’s not a connection or server problem.
Hammer is actually working hard for your gaming pleasure.
That’s to say, servers needed a full root reintallation to clean up all the stuff and, once he started to do the work, he also decided to UPGRADE all the servers to 2.2 version of Excessive Plus mod.
So, don’t run away and stay tuned.
Once all will be done, we will restart all over again, faster, better and more funny than ever.

* UPDATE *

Hammer and Taras worked hard the whole night to reinstall the servers and to do the upgrade, but a little problem come out at the finish line: maybe Leaseweb moved our hosting over a machine phisically different from the previous one, with a different implementation of Linux, so they were not able to restart the servers after the reinstallation.
We already contacted Leaseweb to let’em know the problem, and we’re waiting for an answer, ATM.
Servers will be restarted as soon as this problem will be solved.

* MORE UPDATE *

All the problems should be fixed, now.
All Borg Servers are up end running again, with fully reinstalled roots, and with brand new 2.2a version of Excessiveplus mod.
If you didn’t do yet, you can dowload the new mod that now using THIS LINK.
Sorry for the inconvenience, we hope that you will enjoy our servers again.

* EVEN MORE UPDATE *

Hammer is definitely NOT going to get even a single minute of pause. As soon as he finished the 2.2a update, the Excessiveplus developers team relased a new furthermore update, the 2.2b. Hammer updated the servers again, so they’re up-to-date (nearly real time ) again.
If you need that, you can download the new update HERE.

Best Regards.
The BorgTeam.

Borg Servers need YOUR HELP!

14/06/2011, INSTANT UPDATE:
WE COLLECTED ALL THAT WE NEEDED!
WE DID IT! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!
HAVE FUN FOR ANOTHER YEAR, WITH OUR SERVERS!!!

Well, we perfectly know that is not a great idea talking about money.

So, let’s talk about FUN. Our Quake servers are just this: FUN. You just run Quake, login into server and have fun. All for free, just for your playing pleasure. And you all like that, I guess. There is a “why”, if our servers are enjoyed nearly everyday by lots of gamers.

But now we really need to ask you a little help.
Our main admin, Faster, is in Lybia at the moment, and he cannot do nearly anywhat from there, becouse of the war.

No internet, no telephone, no anything. That’s to say, he cannot manage the servers’ administration and payment. That’s to say, WE have to do that in his place.

We already called our provider to confirm the contract, and they also granted us a special 19% off as we are old faithful clients, but we still need to raise up to 350 euros to keep the servers running for the next year.
So, we really need some help from you.

Do you like our servers?
Do you like playing Quake with us?
Do you wanna keep playing Quake?

Give us a little help.

We don’t ask much… better, we don’t ask you anywhat defined.
Just do what you can and feel you can do. Any donation will help us a lot.
The sea, you know, is made of drops. All we need are drops. Any size.
5 Euros, 10 Euros, 20 Euros… every contribute will be helpful.

As I told before, Faster cannot do that himself, this time, so It’s my turn to work as collector. This time, it will be my work to collect money and use that to pay the server for the next year.

So, here is my PAYPAL account: no more necessary. THANK YOU EVERYONE!

You can use that to send me any money amount.

I will take note of EVERY donation I will receive, and I will also add that to THIS post, for the maximum transparency.

I already donated 50 Euros, and Hammer did the same, so we already raised 100 Euros. Only 250 Euros to reach our goal.

If this fundraise will not reach that amount,
servers will close the 10th July.

In that case, I will send you back all the money collected. You can trust me.
But I’m sure, this will NOT be necessary.
Helping us keeping Borg servers alive, will help yourself keeping you own fun provider.
Thanks a lot in advance for any help.
Thanks a lot! Really!

Wall of Thanks:

Infinity of Borg (€ 50,00)
Hammer of Borg (€ 50,00)
Koszmit (€ 12,00) Thank you!! “Hey, 12 EUR from Koszmit. Good luck Borgs!”
Boridley of Borg (€ 51,00) Thank you!! (No added text)
Divx of Borg (€ 100,00) Thank you!! “Good luck”
Paganini (240 SEK, about € 26,00)  Thank you!! “Hope Borg still continues”
Slowdaddy of Borg (€ 31,00) Thank You!! “Borgs will never die!”
Sugar (€30,00) Thank you!! “30 for the server… 1 for a drink. Greetings, Sugar”
Funky Monkey Gorilla (€70,00) Thank you!! (No added text)

Amount to reach: € 350,00.
We still need: € 00,00

* * WE DID IT!! * *

Best Regards. And THANK YOU AGAIN!!
The BorgTeam.

Borg Servers Update

New Year 2011, New Borg Servers Improvements.
This time, we decided to give every player the best server, to let everyone play the best he can.
You know, there are basically two kinds of players:

1) Newcomers, who don’t know all the moves, don’t know the techs, don’t have the perfect aiming skill, BUT have the same identical right to play and have fun on our servers without being slaughtered by pro-players and rail whores.

2) Pro players, who get their best fun by playing Quake at  high-level lightspeed with other equally-skilled players, and don’t like getting yelling kids on their way.

So, to meet the needs of both, we turned the old Borg Classic CTF into the new shining Borg PRO Players CTF, waiting for best skilled players who wanna fight to the last blood drop; and we also turned old Borg Classic CTF into Newcomers server, waiting for players who wanna train themselves with opponents of similar skills.

Notice that Borg Pro Players runs a rotation made of Pro maps (mostly: WCP), while Newcomers servers have the basic rotation: CTF1, CTF2, CTF3, CTF4, Tourney6. This will allow everyone to play, including players who don’t have custom maps. Anyways, remember that custom maps can be easily found at our FTP, HERE.

Another warning: to avoid abuses or kids-yelling, on Borg Newcomers the map callvoting is not allowed: so, no one will be able to force pro maps on the server made for beginners.

In the hope you will enjoy all the work (BTW: TY, Hammer m8!) behind this new organization, allow us to give you all our best “WELCOME“ at Borg Game Servers: evergreen house of great fun’n'fragging!
Have Fun!

Best Regards
The BorgTeam

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