Re: [hlds] Problems caused by connecting server favorites to IP address

2013-09-27 Thread Kyle Sanderson
We used to have to fight our provider pretty hard to retain our IP addresses. Management would say it's alright, then the rest of the company would deny it ever occurred and would just close the ticket feigning ignorance. The whole process would take about two days to get the addresses transferred

Re: [hlds] Problems caused by connecting server favorites to IP address

2013-09-27 Thread ics
It depends a lot from the hoster. Usually they don't bother to go to the server room. They just move things over network to a server in another ip address and be done with it and wont bother change ip. Too much work and would mess up their network. Our hoster keeps our machine and IP that is

Re: [hlds] Problems caused by connecting server favorites to IP address

2013-09-27 Thread Jason Tango
The issue in our case was the necessity to change providers/datacenters, which (of course) negated any chance of transferring IP's. I just wish we could get an official answer as to why this can or can't be done from Valve. There are a ton of great deals out therefor new hardware we would love

Re: [hlds] Problems caused by connecting server favorites to IP address

2013-09-27 Thread DontWannaName!
Find a good host and stick with them. Iv leased 20 or so IPs for 5 years now and have had 3 different hardware configurations. However it does suck to move when you are a smaller community. Sent from my iPhone 5 On Sep 26, 2013, at 10:33 PM, ics i...@ics-base.net wrote: upgrading

Re: [hlds] Problems caused by connecting server favorites to IP address

2013-09-27 Thread Jason Tango
I would agree, however there are circumstances that can prevent that. We've also been with a good host for over 5 years - but unfortunately, they were sold to a larger corporation last year, and their number of server options/packages have gone down, while their prices have gone up - which is

Re: [hlds] Problems caused by connecting server favorites to IP address

2013-09-27 Thread Nomaan Ahmad
Yea I agree with this. Please do something about this. On 27 September 2013 20:38, Jason Tango jtrun...@outlook.com wrote: I would agree, however there are circumstances that can prevent that. We've also been with a good host for over 5 years - but unfortunately, they were sold to a larger