#1 28/08/2009 07:02 PM

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Registered: 14/12/2008

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Re: PBBans is Back Online! ( PBBans )

LIVE FROM NEW YORK - ITS PBBANS.

Welcome back everyone; we hope you have enjoyed your time off.  We have been extremely busy behind the scenes in preparing the servers and arranging for their shipment to the new host.  Our servers have finished their long journey from Los Angeles and now up and running at their new home in New York City.  As you can see we are online ahead of schedule thanks to the speedy install from our host and the servers arriving a day early.  The PBBans Hub is online and is running smoothly.  We will be updating all of our documentation to reflect the new Hub info over the next few days.

Please update your server's config files now to get your server streaming!

Be sure to check that your servers are streaming http://www.pbbans.com/account/index.php
New hub profile information can be found http://www.pbbans.com/info-center-hubguide.html
New Webtool can be found http://www.pbbans.com/account/webtool.php

If your servers were streaming but now are not, we would be happy to help you getting it streaming once again.  Contact one of the Staff members today in our IRC channel:  http://www.pbbans.com/irc/index.php

We received a great outpouring of support during our time of need and we want to express our sincerest thanks to those that donated, continue to donate and to those that offered to help.  I also want to thank Art of War Central and Wolf Servers who provided a temp hosting solution for our status site.

The DDoS that was directed towards PBBans overwhelmed our previous host's network..  We were facing a dire situation.  Our host failed to provide adequate protection for our servers and the DDoS stayed strong for several days.  PBBans had struggled with the possibility that we would have to shut down.  The key factors that we had to consider was obviously the DDoS, the very poor support that we were receiving from our host, and the amount of funds that we had on hand to facilitate moving to a new host.  We have seen a couple of posts on other sites stating that this was all a PR stunt or a drive to pull cash into PBBans.  I assure you that this was the furthest from the truth.  In fact, if it weren't for the donations that we have received over the last week, we wouldn't be where we are today. 

I want to personally thank everyone that have stuck with us, donated their time/funds, those kind words of support posted on our forums (http://www.pbbans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=100302), and a special thanks goes out to MaydaX for all his hard work keeping PBBans running smoothly....and hanging on for another ride.

Thanks again,

RodeoBob