Amalla is Online, Motoko will be offline by, well soon.

Server Status: Amalla Up, Motoko Up (but not for much longer), Lumpy Up

Server Notes
The changeover has been completed. Services will continue uninterrupted (Except for you oni. Deal with it ^.~) Motoko will soon be going offline so please be sure to switch to the Ventrilo server on ventrilo.nqig.net. (This name will be mapped to whatever server is hosting ventrilo from now on.) Nothing else needs to be changed to continue using Ventrilo.

If you notice a feature that is missing please inform me and I will make every effort to bring it on to the new server. Also note that there was a 1 day period where mailboxes became disjunct. If you're worried that you may have lost an e-mail, contact me and I'll give you a copy of your mailbox that was made shortly after the disjunction was repaired.

Unlike all the times in the past, your passwords have NOT been reset. This was accomplished by me bopping myself in the head and just copying your password hashes over to the new server. They're not as strong as the server's native password hashes (Amalla natively uses MD5 hashes and Motoko used libcrypt hashes,) but if I've done my job right there shouldn't be much of a difference in security.

The swap to the new provider was much easier than I had expected. There where a few minor glitches associated with having two fully functional servers online at once (and having two very different impressions of the domain settings, (Jim's Lesson Learned: Don't forget to update the serial number on your zone records when you change them)) but overall things went rather smoothly (MUCH more smoothly then they have gone in the past, but this may also itself be related to the fact that Motoko was kept online during the switchover so I could copy files as I needed them.)

All in all I'm happy with the switch. Go Daddy's server seems to run pretty well (though it does ocassionally chug a bit) and it DEFINATELY shows the value of the Virtual Server concept.

Maybe one day when I get the chance I'll add Virtual Server hosting to my business , since the cost of running 2 1-cpu systems is much higher than the cost of running 1 2-cpu system is much higjer than the cost of running 1 8-core-4-cpu system. I think I could make a decent profit leasing them for much more than they cost me to operate and still be offering them for a decent price. (Since I would also be able to aggregate the bandwidth between them.)

But that's a topic for my personal space ^.~