S0zi0p4th

After uninstalling, restarting, manually deleting the Program Files Sync folder, and reinstalling the old version, it's working fine. Thanks for the help.

This time, we will get to see how @TheScar will leave us biting dust after the score reset.

i got 3 negative reputation-points on this comment. is it realy that bad??

Hi guys a little update 
 
We are starting to transfer servers to the new server park 
 
This will mean several things 
1 some ip'so will change (mainly eu#2 and eu#4) ip to follow 
And some servers will have some downtime for the transfer to happen 
 
Asoon as we got eu#2 and #4 up and running we gonna start with the transfer off eu#1 and our TS server 
This will be done on a new server then we will ask our provider to remove and install the new server on the old position in the rack so we can keep our IP 
This might take some time so Asoon  as we start there expect some downtime on Eu#1 and Ts 
 
We will try and load a backup ts more info on that to follow 
 
Any questions plz ask them in here or PM @S0zi0p4th 
 
Greetings Sozio 

Typo on year.

sinds we can now make our own goups with the new group mananger i was wondering if people could join or spawn an AI controlled group
this will shield them from command chat and making it usefull again

this ai wil stay on the base doing nothing more than being a place holder

Hi guys a little update 
 
We are starting to transfer servers to the new server park 
 
This will mean several things 
1 some ip'so will change (mainly eu#2 and eu#4) ip to follow 
And some servers will have some downtime for the transfer to happen 
 
Asoon as we got eu#2 and #4 up and running we gonna start with the transfer off eu#1 and our TS server 
This will be done on a new server then we will ask our provider to remove and install the new server on the old position in the rack so we can keep our IP 
This might take some time so Asoon  as we start there expect some downtime on Eu#1 and Ts 
 
We will try and load a backup ts more info on that to follow 
 
Any questions plz ask them in here or PM @S0zi0p4th 
 
Greetings Sozio 

Hi guys a little update 
 
We are starting to transfer servers to the new server park 
 
This will mean several things 
1 some ip'so will change (mainly eu#2 and eu#4) ip to follow 
And some servers will have some downtime for the transfer to happen 
 
Asoon as we got eu#2 and #4 up and running we gonna start with the transfer off eu#1 and our TS server 
This will be done on a new server then we will ask our provider to remove and install the new server on the old position in the rack so we can keep our IP 
This might take some time so Asoon  as we start there expect some downtime on Eu#1 and Ts 
 
We will try and load a backup ts more info on that to follow 
 
Any questions plz ask them in here or PM @S0zi0p4th 
 
Greetings Sozio 

Hi guys a little update 
 
We are starting to transfer servers to the new server park 
 
This will mean several things 
1 some ip'so will change (mainly eu#2 and eu#4) ip to follow 
And some servers will have some downtime for the transfer to happen 
 
Asoon as we got eu#2 and #4 up and running we gonna start with the transfer off eu#1 and our TS server 
This will be done on a new server then we will ask our provider to remove and install the new server on the old position in the rack so we can keep our IP 
This might take some time so Asoon  as we start there expect some downtime on Eu#1 and Ts 
 
We will try and load a backup ts more info on that to follow 
 
Any questions plz ask them in here or PM @S0zi0p4th 
 
Greetings Sozio 

Hi guys a little update 
 
We are starting to transfer servers to the new server park 
 
This will mean several things 
1 some ip'so will change (mainly eu#2 and eu#4) ip to follow 
And some servers will have some downtime for the transfer to happen 
 
Asoon as we got eu#2 and #4 up and running we gonna start with the transfer off eu#1 and our TS server 
This will be done on a new server then we will ask our provider to remove and install the new server on the old position in the rack so we can keep our IP 
This might take some time so Asoon  as we start there expect some downtime on Eu#1 and Ts 
 
We will try and load a backup ts more info on that to follow 
 
Any questions plz ask them in here or PM @S0zi0p4th 
 
Greetings Sozio 

Hi guys a little update 
 
We are starting to transfer servers to the new server park 
 
This will mean several things 
1 some ip'so will change (mainly eu#2 and eu#4) ip to follow 
And some servers will have some downtime for the transfer to happen 
 
Asoon as we got eu#2 and #4 up and running we gonna start with the transfer off eu#1 and our TS server 
This will be done on a new server then we will ask our provider to remove and install the new server on the old position in the rack so we can keep our IP 
This might take some time so Asoon  as we start there expect some downtime on Eu#1 and Ts 
 
We will try and load a backup ts more info on that to follow 
 
Any questions plz ask them in here or PM @S0zi0p4th 
 
Greetings Sozio 

Hi guys a little update 
 
We are starting to transfer servers to the new server park 
 
This will mean several things 
1 some ip'so will change (mainly eu#2 and eu#4) ip to follow 
And some servers will have some downtime for the transfer to happen 
 
Asoon as we got eu#2 and #4 up and running we gonna start with the transfer off eu#1 and our TS server 
This will be done on a new server then we will ask our provider to remove and install the new server on the old position in the rack so we can keep our IP 
This might take some time so Asoon  as we start there expect some downtime on Eu#1 and Ts 
 
We will try and load a backup ts more info on that to follow 
 
Any questions plz ask them in here or PM @S0zi0p4th 
 
Greetings Sozio 

Hi all I whould thank every one who have donated and supported this project 
 
Atm our goals are reached and we are in   the process  off the transfers and setup we will give more info in a other topic 
 
Thanks again and more info to follow

Hi all 
 
A little update from your friendly staff 
 
Atm we are at £365 In donations so we are just £190 short to start the transferwich is quite nice after a week 
 
We also have been given 1 off the windows licences so 2 more to go there 
 
I whould thank all  who have donated and supported us already and hope we can soon start the transfer 
 
Greetings S0zi0p4th 
 
 
 
 
PS like you can see the goal system on our donation page isn't really working when we have 2 goals 

Hi all 
 
A little update from your friendly staff 
 
Atm we are at £365 In donations so we are just £190 short to start the transferwich is quite nice after a week 
 
We also have been given 1 off the windows licences so 2 more to go there 
 
I whould thank all  who have donated and supported us already and hope we can soon start the transfer 
 
Greetings S0zi0p4th 
 
 
 
 
PS like you can see the goal system on our donation page isn't really working when we have 2 goals 

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.

Hello AhoyWorld Member,

  Are you considering becoming a Spartan (public Game Master (Zeus)) for our EU1 server? If so there are a couple of Requirements to be met before your application will be considered, which are:

1. Be a Member of AhoyWorlds' Forum for over 3 Months.

2. No Ban(s) in the last 6 Months.

3 Be Composed/ Trustworthy/ Considerate and Respectful towards ALL Players.

4. Have knowledge of our Invade & Annex Guideline and Rules.

5. Have a STRONG Teamspeak & In-Game presence.
 
 Successful applicants must pass a TRIAL session of a 2 Month probation period. AhoyWorld would like to have an insight towards your Skills and Creativity shown in a Pre-built mission that you have created in Editor in the format of a ".pbo" along with some screenshots or a video.

 We want to ensure that you are a Trustworthy individual who WILL NOT use the powers entrusted to you for your own benefit. Also included in your application should be a small essay about your Motivation/ Desire and Aspiration for applying for the Spartan position.

 If and after your application has been accepted into the Spartan Project the First Months PROBATION will consist of a Moderator/ Administrator or Core Staff who will have to give you permission to your Spartan powers and will be monitored closely to ensure no abuse of your power (If any Moderator/ Admin or Core Staff is present on the Server). The Second month will consist of you being monitored but will have access whenever you connect to AhoyWorld Public Servers without permissions from Moderator/ Administrator or Core Staff.

  AhoyWorld thanks you for your application. We will contact you if you have been Accepted or Rejected with a Direct Message to your Account.
 
 
APPLY HERE
 
 
 

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.

ok ok ok - i get it
ima look in my safe later if i can find some muney to send it over to keep EU1# running
but gawd why you BRExit people still sign out in GBP?
its Euro or gtfo

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.

Ahoyworld is calling all of you to arms to fight a common enemy called 'Hardware ageing' !!
 
 
 
Our Current Situation
 
At Ahoyworld we are currently running flagship server on:
 
Intel Core i7-3930k Hexa Core
64 GB DDR3 RAM
2x 3 TB SATA III HD
 
Which Covers:
EU#1 EU#2 EU#4 EU#5 and TeamSpeak.
 
Now while this might have been top of the line back in the days this is slowly getting dated, soon we will not be able to keep this running for much longer, not without having to cut back on the amount of available game servers, Thus risk losing slot capacity or cutting the number of supported games. This is the reverse world, as since AW is growing we are actually looking to expand the amount of fun on our server, not cut back on them.
 
Over the past 3 years the AW landscape has changed, the membership has grown significantly, and the requirements for gaming servers has also gone up. Not only up, we also see that the shift to high capacity servers is still growing as expected.
 
As a side note we also own:
Valiant Server
AWE EU#6 and EU#9
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
What We Are Planning
We can already say that this will have a big impact on how we will do our server-planning from now on. The way things look now we will move away from Flagships massive server and for the same amount of money we will rent several smaller units instead:
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
 
Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake (incl. Hyper-Threading Technology)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Hard Drive: 2 x 250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD (Software-RAID 1)
Connection: 1 Gbit/s-Port Guaranteed Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s
Traffic: 30 TB
 
This is what we Plan to do
TS   -Flag 1
EU1 - Flag 1
EU2 - New Server
EU3 - Valiant
EU4 - Flag 1
EU5 - New Server
EU6 - Valiant
EU9 -Valiant

For those of you that know a little about computer hardware you will notice 2 things:
1 - This is not the professional server hardware like Xeon, Hexacore, dual CPU, etc..
2 - Though less cores these little servers have higher CPU frequency and are actually close to the same power as our current older machines.
 
Explain 1:
Not running Xeon-awesome-super-duper-mastermind-takeovertheworld server hardware reduces the cost by...well A LOT  so we can have more for the same price. Allowing us to obtain our own Windows consumer-end licences, instead of the overpriced big-boy Server 2012 stuff.
 
Explain 2:
Moving away from a single-point-of-failure setup, to a way more flexible and scalable situation where we can get more servers up and running quickly and at a low cost. and in addition make better use of the available power. As you might know most of the software is not built to run on multi-core cpu's or even multi chip setups, leaving a lot of the power unused. With multiple smaller servers, we will be able to for example run a dedicated EU# machine with more players, or heavier maps and smoother AI and add any other additional servers with who knows how many slots. 
 
Now What Can You Do?
 
Basically I will not avoid the obvious topic here: These things cost money, and we need that from YOU !
 
Though the price eventually will be similar, we cannot avoid the 1 month double running costs and in addition there are setup costs involved, together creating a hell of a monthly bill that would even make Santa Claus look pale 
 
So as per above text, I hope you are confident we are not just wasting your valuable donations, but actually spending a lot of thought on our IT infrastructure before going to buy things we don't actually need.
 
The current donations are just about covering our daily running cost. And any additions like the REPO server (40 Euro per month) are currently covered from our own pockets. As you understand, this leaves us no room to obtain these extra servers, pay the setup costs, and run a double monthly bill until we migrated all the data & servers.
 
So we are looking for:
1 - MONEY, lots of hard cash to go get the migration going, and obtain these server rentals.
2 - Legal (second hand) windows licences. Anything from windows 7 to 10 pro to run as a base OS on these servers. 
 
HOW ?
 
 
Paypal (preferred payment method!!) :
https://forums.ahoyworld.net/donate/make-donation/
Above link will take you to our paypal donation page
 
Then at the Goal tab select server funds so we can differentiate between the two. 

Windows licence:
Please send an email to legal at ahoyworld dot net with proof that your licence is official:
- Purchase bill
- Photo of your non-oem sticker, box or cd
- Make sure your licence code is included in the email
- Make sure your licence is not currently in use on any other computer
- Anything is welcome at this stage, just no Home-Editions (Windows 7, 8, 10, Even: Server 2008 or 2012)
 
NOTE: important that your licence is not OEM, ergo: not linked to specific hardware. Otherwise it will not work on our server (so please do not send us the old licence that came with your laptop\computer, those are all linked to that specific hardware)
 
 
Donation Target:
 
In total we need about £550  to complete the migration, and this is still without windows licences.
 
For now, we are looking to collect 3 windows licences in total. Legit cost of around £480
 
We will add another donation target on the website so you can see its progress live.
Once we have reached a certain amount we will complete phase 1, move EU#2 and #5 onto the 32GB server then
Phase 2 will involve transferring EU#1#4 and TeamSpeak onto the 64GB server. 
 
 
 A Massive Thanks From Us To YOU
 
We would like to thank our regular donators, you guys have kept AW running over the last 5 years or so !! well done !! without YOU we would not even be here today !
 
The same as above goes to our one-time donators, however big or small, thank you very much !!
 
We would also like to mention our staff, (often they are also donators in terms of money) that constantly offer their spare time to work on making the AW servers such a good place for your daily gaming needs. Time is often more worth than money, we should not forget this. In addition they often give-up their own gaming experience by constantly being on stand-by to help anyone of you players and sort out disputes and remove grievers. We appreciate the HUGE efforts of this group !!! 
 
And finally the players that makes our servers such a nice place to be, it's you and your high quality gaming that attract the many new players we have boarded into our community over the last few years !!
 
TL;DR: In order to upgrade our server hardware, we need your money  So please donate, every little helps.