Downtime And Things To Come

STW has been down for like a week now. Maybe more. The server initially went offline because there were some hardware failures at HostMDS. Normally, they would fix it and get the server back up, but this particular failure corrupted the server's harddisk in such a way that HostMDS was unable to recover the data. They sent the harddisk out to specialists, and kept the sites offline. (They told me exactly what happened, but only after I asked them.) A few days later, they informed me the harddisk's data for STW was not recoverable. *sigh*

The servers are now back up, but because I haven't been able to reach it, there's no STW on it yet, there's just a little note from Cassius. That's right, I can't reach it. They say my IP isn't blocked... but I think it is. I'm going to try and reset my router long enough for it to change my IP tonight, maybe that'll help.

So, as for Plan B... I'm in the process of buying some new webspace. When it's operational, I'll upload STW there, and put up a link at the old website. Should be done somewhere next week. Sadly, the latest backup of the game I have is Jan 1 2009, so we'll be forced to do some catching up.

In the meantime, I'm optimizing the code for STW and validating the HTML (something I should've done a long time ago). In the end, we should have a harder, better, faster and stronger STW.

Final Summation:
- Shino's Total War is coming back soon!
- We're moving to a new server.
- The server is rolling back to Jan 1. (Anything that happened before Jan 1 is saved.)

I'll keep you updated!