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Hey Everyone!

First and foremost I want to thank everyone who is still here for their patience. Let me explain what has happened thus far;

On the weekend, it was decided that it was the perfect time to move the server to the new datacenter. The reason for this is that our bandwidth provider merged with another, and as such we had to be migrated.

At this stage We expected 4-5 hours of downtime, which (fairly enough) extended to about 12 hours.

The next step was the hard drive, which was found to be faulty. This is most likely due to the old data center not having taken care in the moving process. This is why the rollback occured, because the files we have now is the manual backup that I took approx 4 days prior to the downtime.

After this it took several days to work out why our server (because of how special it is) wouldn't work with their network. It appears as if one of their scripts messed with ours, and we had to get a custom module written up to communicate with our setup (Told you we are special!)

In the end we are in a faster datacenter, with what I hope to be much better uptime and latency/lag free playing.

We will be working around the clock to get back what we had built, which will include all our new shops and themed areas.

Thank you for your patience and loyalty through these issues and we hope everything from here is smooth sailing.

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Tis a pain, but it happens.

Still want to smite whoever on there end messed up the drive, but that's all on them.

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