As of December 31st, 2006, MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment and its MU* Hosting Services will be no more.

Its been a fun-filled nine years of running and supporting the online game development and player community. However after some recent DDOS and ssh/ftp attacks, hardware failures, software upgrade errors and the recent passing of my older brother to cancer, it has become apparent when its time to just cut one's losses and throw in the towel.

MultiUser RolePlay Entertainment and its hosting services would not have lasted as long as it had without the support from everyone including TopMudSites, Mud Magic, Electric Soup and The MudConnector and its patrons for keeping the MU* hosting community alive all these years.  

Farewell my friends. Farewell.

-- Michael

It is always sad to see to see a long running quality mud or mud resource end. Good luck to you in your next venture Michael.

I wonder if someone is targeting gaming/MUD sites for some reason, had a number of attempted DDOS attacks here ourselves. Thankfully the only one that got anywhere so far was the one massively spamming the review system.

Best wishes,
Derek.

Sad news. Good luck to you in the future.

Any interest in maybe passing the project to someone and keeping it alive?

Its really not possible to 'pass it on'. The server environment was an AMD Dual-Core Opteron with 500GB SATA HD space (RAID 5 configuration) and 4 GB ECC-Registered ram. It was running VMware server and SuSe Linux v10.1 x64-bit edition.

The main issues were the active numbers of script kiddies that were attacking the site via ssh and ftp attacks [on a daily basis (average around 15k hits a day)] and the amount of spam-like email having Spamassassin and F-Protect to check and clean as well. I was able to block a number of subnets in Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe, but when in-states site were compromised, it pretty much made the overseas subnet blocks redundant.

Then after blocking and dealing with all these attacks, the hardware router finally ate itself. After that point, I was getting tired of keeping the hosting business going and trying to run my SMB business site as well.

-- M

Wow...

...damn kids. Best of luck to you in the future, mate.