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I hate to burst everyones bubbles but PBBAns will not be down!

FROM TOTAL GAMING NETWORK.COM


PBBans WILL NOT close UPDATED
Posted by Alex98uk
August 20, 2009
As many of you will know, PB Bans has been under severe attacks for the last few weeks. It's believed multiple DDOS style attacks have taken the website down and prevented guests from visiting. The Euro Domination games league caught up with them, here is what they had to say:

I hate to have to report this news, but PBBans has closed its doors.

Over the past few weeks they have been being hit by a DDOS attack on their server. Today they had another attack and the hosting company would not help them overcome the attack. They would have to move to another hosting company to solve the problem which would cost a lot of money, time, and effort.

The time and effort put in by all the staff members at PBBans has been enormous. But a year or so back, they lost one of the two main coders for the website because Evenbalance would not fix a problem with Punkbuster that allowed for bans to be spoofed. This left MaydaX to code the website and keep it running. Him, along with the founder, Rodeobob, now want to get back to their families and lives, so they are closing the doors to PBBans.]

It's a real shame to see such a good service go, they had to make the best of the rather poor set of cards EvenBalence handed them. Even so, is this just another nail on the Battlefield 2 coffin?

Be sure to leave your thoughts here.

UPDATE:

PPBans have posted and update concerning there closing of doors. Good news its not happening, PPBans lives.

Over the last month PBBans has been hit with a number of DDoS attacks and we have been able to overcome them. On Aug 18, 2009 a massive DDoS attack hit our web server and could not be prevented with the counter-measures we previously employed. Our host will not do anything to block the attacks and even suggested that we turn our servers off.

After this occurred we decided to close our doors. There are many reasons behind this such as a higher cost for hosting, the lack of a new host that can provide the protection we require and finally the toll PBBans has played on our real lives.

After thinking about it overnight and the overwhelming messages from supporters who pleaded us not to close, we have decided to continue. We have found a new host that will provide the protection we require however it comes at a higher cost. Also the cost of shipping our servers is not a small one.

We need your help to keep us to keep PBBans online. Please donate using the button below.

We thank all our supporters for sticking with us and provided some much needed motivation needed to keep PBBans alive.

Aug 19, 2009
Hosting has been secured and the process of moving the servers now begins.

Moving also requires all game servers be updated to use a new UCON profile. The new UCON profile will be posted here when we get the IP.