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About BlackIntel
Welcome to BlackIntel, home of the BlackIntel servers, coders and of course clan. Our goal is to provide a nice place to stay and hang around for everyone. We currently offer a varity of games, including C&C Renegade, Unreal Tournament 3, and a Battlefield 2142 mod: First Strike.
If you like our servers, you might want to consider to join our clan. We're a nice clan and are ususally not too serious in life. :) We play for fun mostly, although sometimes a serious clanwar can be really entertaining as well. If you feel the same you should really check out the clan section of your favourite game here!
This site is also a place where server owners can get support on our C&C Renegade software or can show their appreciation. As you can see on the projects page we have a couple of coding projects running regarding Renegade. We hope you like them!
News
Server move finished
Posted on 13 Dec 2009 by StealthEye - 0 comments
As was posted yesterday on the forums already, the server move was finished yesterday at around 13:45. We encountered no real problems so it could be done quickly. We're sorry for the inconvenience the downtime may have caused.
Server move progress
Posted on 12 Dec 2009 by EvilWhiteDragon - 0 comments
We are currently under way to the first data center. See the server move progress topic on our forums for live updates on our progress.
Server move 12 dec confirmed + preliminary schedule
Posted on 09 Dec 2009 by EvilWhiteDragon - 0 comments
As we posted before we'll move our server from one data center to another, because our current provider decided to bill power usage while they didn't do that before.
We'll move to https://www.webxtra.eu/ where we will be colocated in the Easynet/Leaseweb datacenter. It'll eventually also save us 10 euros a month base costs.
The schedule
9.50 Leave my parents home with StealthEye and Volvo V70
10.00 Pickup Ghostshaw and drive to Amsterdam
11.00 Arrive at the DCG data center
11.10 Start work on removing server (so server will be shut down around this time)
12.10 Leave DCG data center and drive to Easynet/Leasewed data center
12.30 Arrive at new data center, lunch break
13.00 Meet up with Jeroen Klaver from Web://Xtra and start placing server
14.30 Start server and leave data center
15.30 Drop off Ghostshaw
15.40 Arrival at my parents home
This is what we currently estimate, so it could (of course) take longer.
We'll move to https://www.webxtra.eu/ where we will be colocated in the Easynet/Leaseweb datacenter. It'll eventually also save us 10 euros a month base costs.
The schedule
9.50 Leave my parents home with StealthEye and Volvo V70
10.00 Pickup Ghostshaw and drive to Amsterdam
11.00 Arrive at the DCG data center
11.10 Start work on removing server (so server will be shut down around this time)
12.10 Leave DCG data center and drive to Easynet/Leasewed data center
12.30 Arrive at new data center, lunch break
13.00 Meet up with Jeroen Klaver from Web://Xtra and start placing server
14.30 Start server and leave data center
15.30 Drop off Ghostshaw
15.40 Arrival at my parents home
This is what we currently estimate, so it could (of course) take longer.
Website migration finished
Posted on 01 Dec 2009 by StealthEye - 0 comments
The website migration was finished today. There were no big problems, so it went pretty smoothly. The migration caused some small downtime on the website and forums, we're sorry for the inconvenience if you tried to access them when they were offline.
The new DNS entries are installed but it will take up to a few days to update them, therefore we installed a website proxy to make it happen a little more fluently. This proxy should allow access to the website even before the DNS updates propagated, at the cost of a little performance decrease. The website and forums may therefore load slightly slower than normal (if noticeable at all) over the next few days, but that will resolve itself automatically.
From our tests it seems everything is working again, if you however still encounter any functionality not working, errors being shown or anything that seems erroneous, please let us know. Thank you. :)
The new DNS entries are installed but it will take up to a few days to update them, therefore we installed a website proxy to make it happen a little more fluently. This proxy should allow access to the website even before the DNS updates propagated, at the cost of a little performance decrease. The website and forums may therefore load slightly slower than normal (if noticeable at all) over the next few days, but that will resolve itself automatically.
From our tests it seems everything is working again, if you however still encounter any functionality not working, errors being shown or anything that seems erroneous, please let us know. Thank you. :)
Website and server move upcoming
Posted on 24 Nov 2009 by EvilWhiteDragon - 0 comments
As you might have heard we have a small conflict with TransIP. Basically the problem is as follows: we have apparently used too much power off their powergrid, more than allowed by the contract. Now they charge us extra for that. All this is pretty fair, but the thing that troubles us the most is that they just started doing this since November. All of the sudden we're using too much power. Not any single warning or whatever. I e-mailed them asking for some leniency for the first month, because we never knew how much power our server was using.
Because of this, we'll be moving our server to a new colocation provider which should provide us with enough power for a decent price. Basically we'll be paying 45 euros a month instead of the current 55+23,50 (overusage) = 78,50 euro. The only downside of this is that our server will be down when we move it and ,even worse, we need to pay December both to our old provider as to our new provider + setup fee at our new provider. We expect that this will cost us about 180 to 200 euros which kinda sucks ;). Because of this huge amount of money we're once more asking for your donation. Even if it's just 5 euro it'll help out, we would appreciate it greatly!
Since we're moving the server, our website would experience downtime. Since we dislike having both our gameservers and webserver down at the same time, we're planning to move the website to Sep76's host before we're going to move the server. We expect to do this somewhere this week/weekend. The moving itself can be done pretty fast, but the DNS update could take some time to get through (up to 24 hours) so don't be scared if our website is down all of the sudden. We've though up a way that should minimize downtime to a few minutes if everything goes well.
During the website downtime you will still be able to visit us on IRC (scroll down a bit) where you can have a chat with us if you want :).
When we have a fixed date for the webserver move we'll post more! The game or main) server will probably be moved on December the 12th, but that's not yet confirmed.
Because of this, we'll be moving our server to a new colocation provider which should provide us with enough power for a decent price. Basically we'll be paying 45 euros a month instead of the current 55+23,50 (overusage) = 78,50 euro. The only downside of this is that our server will be down when we move it and ,even worse, we need to pay December both to our old provider as to our new provider + setup fee at our new provider. We expect that this will cost us about 180 to 200 euros which kinda sucks ;). Because of this huge amount of money we're once more asking for your donation. Even if it's just 5 euro it'll help out, we would appreciate it greatly!
Since we're moving the server, our website would experience downtime. Since we dislike having both our gameservers and webserver down at the same time, we're planning to move the website to Sep76's host before we're going to move the server. We expect to do this somewhere this week/weekend. The moving itself can be done pretty fast, but the DNS update could take some time to get through (up to 24 hours) so don't be scared if our website is down all of the sudden. We've though up a way that should minimize downtime to a few minutes if everything goes well.
During the website downtime you will still be able to visit us on IRC (scroll down a bit) where you can have a chat with us if you want :).
When we have a fixed date for the webserver move we'll post more! The game or main) server will probably be moved on December the 12th, but that's not yet confirmed.