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I just woke up to see something I could’ve expected, but not after the time it took them to find it… At all, I’ve posted my nice RCON plugin which bans on 3 bad attempts on the 23th of May and was rather convinced to get a forum ban back there… But see what popped up for me when I was about to join the forums:

So in the end, it doesn’t seem like some of the useful plugins are accepted. Everyone can obtain the sampmysql or irc-plugins, but to prevent bruteforcing of your server and in the end protecting your rcon access is NOT allowed? To me, that doesn’t seem correct. Even although I needed some disassembling to find the correct memory locations, it would be dare easy for everyone to just search in the string list for “Bad rcon attempt”…

Noone seemed to care the link is still available, I was banned without removing the link… might be useful to others? I believe so, why would they remove a useful link? It’s just I’ve made something a lot of server owners enjoy to see and what the SA:MP Team didn’t put in… but nevermind.
I wonder, is my license to host SA:MP servers revoked now? At all, I don’t own a server hosting company since some days, and I haven’t got any email regarding that.

Besides the point, yet another e-drama happened yesterday, when Kye came to GTANet just to get Peter away from SA:MP… But I might go in detail later, until now it doesn’t seem like kye wants to have a huge userbase playing it.

In conclusion, I’d strongly encourage you to use forum.sa-mp.co.uk, and if you experience a lot of rcon attacks, consider my rcon plugin - you need the filterscript from the complete package, and then a dll/so file for your architecture.

You might also want to read Peter’s (and some other people’s view). This has been deleted, thus granting LVP official status again.

cheers
mabako

Now the day arrived, one I presumed to happen already in January… SA:MP Host has been closed, or to be more exact, merged with serverffs.

Prices change to the serverffs-prices, and the current customers will be taken over at least for the period they paid for without any extra charges. After their server expired, one may need to either cancel his account or rent it in future at 0.25 Euro per slot.

There’s a couple of reasons for it, an important one being the financial aspect, and I’m sometimes really tired of people around here… So, let’s hope everything will stay fine.

cheers
mabako

For the fourth, maybe final time, SA:MP is closed down by Kye.

I want to point out this does NOT include the official list, just the internet list - where most people’s servers are on. To keep a list of servers online, I’ve made some small changes, just visit forum.sa-mp.co.uk how you may get your server on my new internet list, and how you can see others there.

cheers
mabako

Now this is interesting.

After SA:MP’s services have been taken down and partly reopened (such as the forums, whereas I would really like you to use forum.sa-mp.co.uk for forums not restricted to support only), it seems the official list is back, at all.

Although not being on the front page, the page to buy your official rank is back. Let’s see if something unexpected happens now too.

Update 12th May, yet one again
Changing his mind again, people who paid for official server were refunded, though the new official servers were kept they were now.

In the meanwhile, grab some popcorn and read the gamerX forum a bit… And stay tuned what happens next!

cheers
mabako