Thread: PbBans Closes

Sad Day

I hate to have to report this news, but PBBans has closed its doors.

Over the past few weeks they have been being hit by a DDOS attack on their server. Today they had another attack and the hosting company would not help them overcome the attack. They would have to move to another hosting company to solve the problem which would cost a lot of money, time, and effort.

The time and effort put in by all the staff members at PBBans has been enormous. But a year or so back, they lost one of the two main coders for the website because Evenbalance would not fix a problem with Punkbuster that allowed for bans to be spoofed. This left MaydaX to code the website and keep it running. Him, along with the founder, Rodeobob, now want to get back to their families and lives, so they are closing the doors to PBBans.

Source: Euro Domination • View topic - PBBans Has Closed Its Doors

Looks like the cheats won that round

Going to make catching hackers/ admins a hell of a lot harder now

Wow.

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Also, just to let you know...

Going to be doing a lot of work on the forum style (code side), forum permissions (some bugs) and general set up. Might be some downtime later today/ tomorrow.

sad to hear

Fuck. Seriously, that blows.

damnit, that really sucks...

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Yesterday, 09:09 PM
MaydaX
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This is on our temp site

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Over the last month PBBans has been hit with a number of DDoS attacks and we have been able to overcome them. On Aug 18, 2009 a massive DDoS attack hit our web server and could not be prevented with the counter-measures we previously employed. Our host will not do anything to block the attacks and even suggested that we turn our servers off.

After this occurred we decided to close our doors. There are many reasons behind this such as a higher cost for hosting, the lack of a new host that can provide the protection we require and finally the toll PBBans has played on our real lives.

After thinking about it overnight and the overwhelming messages from supporters who pleaded us not to close, we have decided to continue. We have found a new host that will provide the protection we require however it comes at a higher cost. Also the cost of shipping our servers is not a small one.

We need your help to keep us to keep PBBans online. Please donate using the button below.

We thank all our supporters for sticking with us and provided some much needed motivation needed to keep PBBans alive.
I've also setup a Twitter account for those that use it PBBans.com (PBBans) on Twitter

And for the record this is not a "PR show for there donation drive", we were under a massive ddos and now moving datacenters. To all the haters you can do a whois on our old ip and new ones when we come back online. When you offer a good service, people are willing to pay and all the donation are kept for new hardware and maintenance.

so there still is a possibility of a return

Daim cheaters. Do they really have to ruin everything for the funplayers. That they die a horrible dead and rot in hell.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I luv PBB, on servers with it i was allways clear, now admins will kill me : [ (god bless normal pb)

If your able to donate i will..... Can you?
This is bullshit

I think the mbl is still there though is it?

PBBans Closes Its Doors - FPSadmin.com
I think what i get from that is the ehad guy is deciding to continue PbBans but im not sure read it for yourselves.

that's fucked up. it will be alot harder from now on... :\