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Update: Server(s) stable again!

As many have noticed (especially Fistful of Frags players) the servers have been having lots of issues in the past few months. Even upgrading the VPS rental capacity by 50% did not resolve the issues.

After much troubleshooting, it was determined that the issue seemed to affect most (if not all) games hosted on the same VPS, resulting in the in-game "rubber-banding" effect. This was most noticeable in both:

• Our Fistful of Frags servers - all four of them, and ..
  
• Our Team Fortress 2 server.

However, there were also symptoms discovered out-side the game-servers, experienced with the operating system (Debian Linux) itself. Specifically, when rebooting the VPS, it would take a long time (multiple minutes) to reach the point where even the boot-loader (GRUB) to load. Under normal circumstances, on a VPS that should happen well under one minute.

To help resolve these issues, a ticket was opened with the hosting provider (NFO Servers) support team to see about migrating the VPS from one host hardware-machine to a different hardware-machine - to see if that would alleviate the issue.

After the VPS migration, the issues (both with the reboot, and the in-game "rubber-banding") seem to be resolved. Obviously, I will continue to monitor the situation for a few days. But, hopefully no further action will be required.

My apologies to anyone that may have been impacted by this long period with the weird in-game "rubber-banding" effect. I lot of work had gone into troubleshooting that issue and trying to isolate the cause. In the end, it may have been something outside our control this whole time.