Yeah, It is with a bit of a shame that we have to say goodbye to our previous hosting provider from Viper Hosting, who has been nothing but awesome for us in the past. But due to changes in his bushiness and the growth of our chat network. Our contract with them has come to an end. This has consequences 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 previous hosting provider connection. And it will be gone.
At the mean time we are trying to get a new account at a new hosting provider, so OUR IRCD MAY SPLIT ON THE HUB CONNECTION - ALL LEAFS WILL BE RUNNING - BUT NOT CONNECTED (for a while) we 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 Jan 2nd, 2009. Our latest backup.
We recommend for the best chat experience, to use irc.wetalksoccer.com 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.
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.wetalksoccer.com channel [HASHTAG]#help[/HASHTAG] - for help. Or email to
staff@vbirc.com to contact all the online staff.