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SlothMUD · 03-26-2006, 06:12 PM

Our Immortals at SlothMUD have payed for our mud to run for the past 15 years. We have never asked for donations nor do we accept donations( although we are asked to by our players all the time-as most free muds are I bet). And the costs are overwhelming for a bunch of hobbyists that we are...

Speaking of that, shameless plug time...

Recently our game server had been experiencing quit a bit of lag. Our previous host had become grossly overloaded and as a result, our game suffered. Due to this, SlothMUD III has moved locations. Our dedicated server is a Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz, 200 GB HD, and 2048 MB memory, which is now being hosted at the Harbour Data Center located in Vancouver, Canada.This center specializes in providing space to the telecommunications industry and is located at the terminus of the largest Internet pipeline between British Columbia and the United States. The Vancouver data center is fully N+1 redundant.

What does all of this mean? For the most part it means that our game is close to lag free and is running faster than ever.

Besides changing locations, our game has been under constant change over the course of the last year. In recent times, we have added MXP(Mud Extension Protocol), MCCP (Mud Client Compression Protocol), an astrological event system, addition of the 7 magical strata, tons of new spells and skills, etc. We are quite excited with the direction our mud is moving in. We are one of the oldest Diku muds in existance, yet we continue to push our devopment in the hopes of continually providing an entertaining, fun, and well thought out game.

As well, one of our creators, William Lees, has been busy updating his MUD client Wintin.Net(an updated version of wintin95 which he also authored). It possesses many of the features we have added lately such as MXP, MCCP, etc.
For more information on this great windows client, please refer to .

Our website has moved to a new location as well. It is no longer being hosted on our game server. The new address is . For those interested in logging in and checking us out, telnet:slothmud.org port 6101.

03-26-2006, 06:12 PM	#7
SlothMUD New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 14	Our Immortals at SlothMUD have payed for our mud to run for the past 15 years. We have never asked for donations nor do we accept donations( although we are asked to by our players all the time-as most free muds are I bet). And the costs are overwhelming for a bunch of hobbyists that we are... Speaking of that, shameless plug time... Recently our game server had been experiencing quit a bit of lag. Our previous host had become grossly overloaded and as a result, our game suffered. Due to this, SlothMUD III has moved locations. Our dedicated server is a Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz, 200 GB HD, and 2048 MB memory, which is now being hosted at the Harbour Data Center located in Vancouver, Canada.This center specializes in providing space to the telecommunications industry and is located at the terminus of the largest Internet pipeline between British Columbia and the United States. The Vancouver data center is fully N+1 redundant. What does all of this mean? For the most part it means that our game is close to lag free and is running faster than ever. Besides changing locations, our game has been under constant change over the course of the last year. In recent times, we have added MXP(Mud Extension Protocol), MCCP (Mud Client Compression Protocol), an astrological event system, addition of the 7 magical strata, tons of new spells and skills, etc. We are quite excited with the direction our mud is moving in. We are one of the oldest Diku muds in existance, yet we continue to push our devopment in the hopes of continually providing an entertaining, fun, and well thought out game. As well, one of our creators, William Lees, has been busy updating his MUD client Wintin.Net(an updated version of wintin95 which he also authored). It possesses many of the features we have added lately such as MXP, MCCP, etc. For more information on this great windows client, please refer to . Our website has moved to a new location as well. It is no longer being hosted on our game server. The new address is . For those interested in logging in and checking us out, telnet:slothmud.org port 6101.