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.

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.

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. :)

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.

Saturday we updated the RenegadeX server to the latest version. Now we have 5 maps in the rotation which are Hourglass, Horologe (variant on hourglass), Islands, Vulcano and of course Field.
We're planning to get the RenX section a bit more active, so stay tuned for more updated on our RenegadeX server :)

You can find more information on the update (and it's download) here:
http://www.renegadeforums.com/index.php?t=msg&th=35178&start=0&rid=20224

Today RenegadeX will be released. Will be because currently it is not officially released. Unofficially it can be found on various locations as MiniNova and fileplanet. For clanmembers see the topic in the private forums.

Anyway, more ontopic, we have managed to get our UT3 server to run RenegadeX and are inviting you to join it! We're the first server to support the mod unofficially, and we're not sure if everything is setup right just yet, there might be some bugs yet, if you encounter one please tell us as soon as possible. You can direct connect on our server with the address:
87.253.133.61:7777

We hope you'll have a good time on the first OPEN RenegadeX server!

http://renegade-x.com/

As some of the First Strike members may have noticed, BlackIntel will now be hosting First Strikes official Inter-Clan Wars. These events are similar to the Internal Clan Wars we participated in with our partner community, TheKoss2, but are on a much bigger scale. Check out the I-CW part of the First Strike section of our site for more details!

As you might have noticed the website and all of the BlackIntel services where down for a little moment. This was because we had for like 3 months worth of windows updates to install.
To do this we had to shut down the server and reboot it twice. Now it is done and hopefully we don't need to reboot it any time soon again ;)

Our Renegade server is now GameSpy enabled, and Direct Connect is now public. Hopefully, this will get us some more players. You can connect through GSA the normal way, or direct connect through this IP and Port:

87.253.133.61:4800

Enjoy, and bring your friends that don't have an XWIS account!

Hey there guys, typing from EWD's (well his dads anyway) car here. I will be updating this post with news as we go along.

09:02 We left at EWD's home for the shop where we bought the Q6700
10:10 We now have the CPU from the shop and are heading for Amsterdam
11:11 Due to heavy traffic (and annoying 45 KM cars) we will probably be arriving a little later then planned at the datacenter
12:01 We arrived at the data center and are logged in (fingerprints ZOMG). We will take the server down in a few minutes and start the maintenance.
12:32 The CPU has bee n replaced and tested. We also checked which of the SCSI disks was broken and are replacing it now.
13:07 It appears as though our spare HDD is also busted and we diagnosed the wrong HDD asbeing broken. So removing the broken HDD's and reattaching the good one.
14:40 We are moving the windows partition to the new SATA 400 GB disk since its most likely more reliable and almost twice as fast. This is nearly done and also the last thing that needs doing.
17:40 Finally finished pff, we had to go get a new cooler really quick cause (unlike the shop said) the old one wasn't good enough. We also totally updated windows. We now just need to move a few files over from one HDD to another, excute some other updates and everything will be back online.
19:46 Yay completely done.