Conquer Club has been growing quickly over the past couple months. We have close to 6,000 active members on our scoreboard, have served about 100,000 games and have seen almost 400 members online at a time
All this activity takes a toll on the server and at times the website performed really slowly. We were reaching full capacity and I had to take action...
Our new home is a powerful, fully managed dedicated server from Rackspace, one of the most reputable hosting companies out there. Obviously this would not have been possible without the financial support from Conquer Club members, so hats of to all of you premies
Everything should be zippy now and we shouldn't have to upgrade the server for a long time. For the computer geeks out there, here are the specs:
Dual AMD Opteron Processors
2 GB Memory
120 GB IDE Drive
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
1 TB Monthly Bandwidth
"Fanatical" 24x7x365 Support and Service
In other news, we have some staffing changes: Scarus has decided to retire from the Mod Squad. A beacon of decency, Scarus's input and assistance was much appreciated. Fortunately he'll continue to play the role of honourable adversary in the games! We have appointed 3 new Multi Hunters: sully800, Master Bush and Fireside Poet. Zookeeper AndyDufresne will be training them in the black art of cheater-busting and eventually we'll see the trio investigating accusations in the Cheating & Abuse Reports forum. That should give us enough coverage to keep the games clean as our community grows.
Finally a word about New Recruit deadbeats - I recognize that this is an important problem and over the next few weeks we'll be taking steps to improve the indoctrination of new members of the club - which should reduce deadbeating. Further anti-deadbeat improvements will be included in the next update. The next update, by the way, should be ready for X-mas or New Years and will be chock-full of goodies
but im glad 
