[C5 L2OFF] L2Insomnia

[L2Insomnia]

Well after a few months of work the time has finally come to let people  know about our server. Many of you know Azure and their C5 servers which  are unfortunately closed now. We are using their C5 files and client  protection. We first had planned on Interlude but when the option came  to open a C5 server with those files it was impossible to pass on. We  are the only ones besides Azure to have the privilege of running these  C5 files.

A 1 week open beta is planned for end of May or first week of June, followed by Live.

Server Information
5x xp

5x sp

5x Adena

5x Drop (chance)

3x Quest item (chance)

5x Spoil (amount)

1x Epics

Protection

The  client protection is top notch and afaik has never been bypassed. There  will be no bots. It also blocks dual-boxing even if you use sandbox or  vm.

Server Hardware

The server is bought  and paid for, there is no rentals here. I did this so I could afford to  put the server on a real ddos protected network (not cheap). More about  the ddos protection farther down.

Server Specs-

2x Dual Core AMD Opteron 2212s

2x SAS 15k RPM, 73GB HDDs

12 GB RAM, DDR2 667 MHZ

The server will hold 3k players with no lag.

Server Connection Server is located in Montreal, Canada

The  server is connected to some real high quality backbones and the routing  is excellent for players all over the world. This is not something  every datacenter can do! Outgoing traffic traffic travels VIA Tata  Communications (formerly Teleglobe), Videotron, Peer1, TorIX, Level 3,  Deutsche Telecom, and Cogent.

**NOTE** Cogent is only used if there is a major failure on one of the other high quality carriers that is effecting service.

DDOS Protection

The  main reason many of the bigger servers are closing or being forcibly  closed is ddos attacks. Unfortunately it is a reality of the L2 Private  server community. Not many servers are investing in ddos protection and  most of those that do are being tricked. Many datacenters offer ddos  protection but it is false advertising. A Firebox, Cisco router, or  software ddos protection may work against small non-flood type attacks,  but they all fail against large flood attacks. Those attacks are what is  being used to shutdown so many large servers.

I contacted over  100 Datacenters all over the world over the course of 2 weeks not too  mention did a huge amount of research. **FACT** If the protection  offered is not network wide and based off Arbor Peak Flow/Analysis and  Top Layer technology...it is BS! We are hosted on one of these  networks..shielded and fed clean traffic by the best ddos  protection/mitigation in the world. Expensive? Yes...but if your going  to do something do it well, right?

The amount of support  since we announced our decision to go with C5 has been huge. The  community is growing fast and steady. We fully expect to hit our 3k player cap when we go live. Many old-school players are coming out of retirement for this it should be epic!

Here is the site http://www.l2insomnia.com

Insomnia

[L2Insomnia]

Thanks Community is going strong over 2k regged now and that will get alot bigger when it is time for live. Live has been announced for June 17th!

http://www.l2insomnia.com/showthread.php...-Live-Date

[slashash]

if your gonna play that low rate of a server might as well play retail

[anonymj]

(05-07-2011 11:04)L2Insomnia link Wrote:


Well after a few months of work the time has finally come to let people  know about our server. Many of you know Azure and their C5 servers which  are unfortunately closed now. We are using their C5 files and client  protection. We first had planned on Interlude but when the option came  to open a C5 server with those files it was impossible to pass on. We  are the only ones besides Azure to have the privilege of running these  C5 files.

A 1 week open beta is planned for end of May or first week of June, followed by Live.

Server Information
5x xp

5x sp

5x Adena

5x Drop (chance)

3x Quest item (chance)

5x Spoil (amount)

1x Epics

Protection

The  client protection is top notch and afaik has never been bypassed. There  will be no bots. It also blocks dual-boxing even if you use sandbox or  vm.

Server Hardware

The server is bought  and paid for, there is no rentals here. I did this so I could afford to  put the server on a real ddos protected network (not cheap). More about  the ddos protection farther down.

Server Specs-

2x Dual Core AMD Opteron 2212s

2x SAS 15k RPM, 73GB HDDs

12 GB RAM, DDR2 667 MHZ

The server will hold 3k players with no lag.

Server Connection Server is located in Montreal, Canada

The  server is connected to some real high quality backbones and the routing  is excellent for players all over the world. This is not something  every datacenter can do! Outgoing traffic traffic travels VIA Tata  Communications (formerly Teleglobe), Videotron, Peer1, TorIX, Level 3,  Deutsche Telecom, and Cogent.

**NOTE** Cogent is only used if there is a major failure on one of the other high quality carriers that is effecting service.

DDOS Protection

The  main reason many of the bigger servers are closing or being forcibly  closed is ddos attacks. Unfortunately it is a reality of the L2 Private  server community. Not many servers are investing in ddos protection and  most of those that do are being tricked. Many datacenters offer ddos  protection but it is false advertising. A Firebox, Cisco router, or  software ddos protection may work against small non-flood type attacks,  but they all fail against large flood attacks. Those attacks are what is  being used to shutdown so many large servers.

I contacted over  100 Datacenters all over the world over the course of 2 weeks not too  mention did a huge amount of research. **FACT** If the protection  offered is not network wide and based off Arbor Peak Flow/Analysis and  Top Layer technology...it is BS! We are hosted on one of these  networks..shielded and fed clean traffic by the best ddos  protection/mitigation in the world. Expensive? Yes...but if your going  to do something do it well, right?

The amount of support  since we announced our decision to go with C5 has been huge. The  community is growing fast and steady. We fully expect to hit our 3k player cap when we go live. Many old-school players are coming out of retirement for this it should be epic!

Here is the site http://www.l2insomnia.com

Insomnia

very, very nice server