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It is with a bit of a shame that we have to say goodbye to Patrick, from Viper Hosting, who has been nothing but awesome for us in the past. But due to changes in his buseiness and the growth of our chat network. Our sponsorship contract has come to an end. This has concequences to our network. The HUB server that we are running and all the LEAF servers connect to, and the Anope Services, that powers the ChanServ and NickServ, is what runs on his sponsored connection. And it will be gone.
So, for a period of time, while we are trying to get a new account at a new hosting provider, paid out of our own pockets (yes, donations are welcomed!), we will be .. having our biggest split in the history of our network. Each irc server will split from eachother. We have no alt hub to connect to, so .. you can still see users online, but not as much as before, and you temporary can not identify to your nickname, or register a name or channel.
Yes, we have backups. Everything will be restored to what it was on December 7th, 2008. Our latest backup.
We recommend for the best chat experience, to use http://vbirc.com/chat/ or irc.vbirc.org (not .com or .net) so we all connect to one server that we will try our best to keep online at all times. While we try to get irc.vbirc.com back online. If we all focus on irc.vbirc.org then we will be able to see eachother in the rooms.
Our staff will try to be on ALL the ircd, informing everybody about what's going on, and link to this news article. Feel free to help us and do the same.
So quick summery:
HUB + ANOPE = TEMPORARY OFFLINE
Causing Split to ALL irc servers.
Every other IRC server is online, but not connected to a hub.
We're fixing that - hopefully within an hour, but could be a day or longer, depending on how things go.
irc.vbirc.org channel #chat - for help. Or email to staff@vbirc.com to contact all the online staff.
