We'll be doing some maintenance work on our HLStats database this coming weekend. Our game servers will remain up but we expect that event logging and the stats website will have reduced availability during the maintenance window.

We hope this upgrade will address some of the lingering performance issues with the system once it is fully complete; we'll be doing a little more work on other areas of the system once the database work is done, but we expect this follow on work to be largely transparent.

Hey folks!

We're going to be looking to do some maintenance on our physical NA server infrastructure this coming weekend. Unfortunately this means we'll need to take our NA servers offline for an extended period while the physical machine is being serviced. Given the nature of what we'll be doing it is difficult to provide a detailed time frame - at minimum the time has come to do a bit of de-cluttering and a fresh OS install on the box (could take several hours, accounting for taking backups, doing the install, re-configuring, and restoring data) and in addition we're seeing some signs one of the memory modules on the server might be failing so I'd like to take the opportunity to run a memory check and have our provider service the machine if necessary (potentially another couple of hours for the check, no idea how long a support incident would take to resolve).

I'll try to have things back as quickly as possible, and apologies in advance for the inconvenience; I'm not a fan of downtime but better we address this on a schedule.

I'm pleased to announce we've made some efforts to increase offerings in under-served regions and last weekend, we've added some official servers for the Asia region to our lineup - some of you may have already noticed the new additions SG-1 (Standard) and SG-2 (tf2c-exclusive maps) in our list.

They are located in Singapore which was the most centrally located option in the region.

Game on - we'll be keeping an eye on player count and can potentially add some more capacity if they prove popular

(Yes, we're still looking into options for our SA players - unfortunately our current provider has no data centers in the region, but indicates they will have some "soon", whatever that means...)