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Welcome to the home of the Kill Your Attitude Rocket Arena 3
server. The server has been in existence in some form or another since
November 1999. It has been through a number of hosts, and was gone
for a while as well. We are back, and have already made a strong presence on the internet as a premier place to
play Rocket Arena for Quake 3.
KYA Server History:
This journey started back in November of 1999. KYA’s involvement in
Quake 2 match play was starting to increase. We were finding it difficult
at times to locate Quake servers to play matches on. Mega and myself
started discussing possibilities of building a server of our own. I
began talks with the President/Owner of Directlink.net, a Dallas based
ISP (The Curse’s ISP), about collocating a game server on their high
bandwidth network. Agreements were then made that we would be able to
Co-Locate our own game server with Directlink. Now we just needed the
server.
Mega began the process of advertising to the rest of the clan about
our good fortune and proposed a vote to build the server with clan donated
hardware. Everyone agreed and within a couple of months KYA had put
together a very capable WinTel 500Mhz 256MB game server. It was time
tested at the Hoss LAN party and then brought to the Dallas area in
late January 2000 for the KYA Laniversary at The Curse’s residence.
This was really the beginning of the saga.
Following the KYA Laniversary party, I contacted Directlink and indicated
that KYA had its server ready for collocation. I was then told that
all of the Co-Location spots were taken (major bummer)! However, Directlink
was upgrading to allow for more collocated machines and that we would
need to wait until that work was completed. This went on for several
months with no change in status. It started to look like we would never
get our server placed with Directlink. During late July 2000, I again
spoke with Directlink and was told, “sorry, but they will not be taking
any more gaming servers”! Talk about a major blow! This was unfortunate
after all the time, effort, and money the clan had expended in getting
the server together.
I began discussions with several other Dallas based ISP’s with no luck.
None of the ISP’s was willing to offer “free” bandwidth for a game server.
Leaving no stone un-turned, I went back to Directlink and spoke with
an Admin (Matt) who had just started working with Directlink. We talked
at length about Co-Location issues going on at Directlink. In these
discussions, I had come to learn that there were several co-located
game servers already in operation at Directlink, two of which Matt was
personally involved with. I began inquiring about the opportunity for
KYA to have its own game server space on one of the collocated systems.
This was our ticket to at least allow KYA to have a Dallas based, high
bandwidth gaming server. No doubt it would certainly be better than
nothing at all for the time being.
Matt and I worked out all of the details. KYA donated 128MB of ram to
one of Matt’s machines for our game server. We have full administration
rights to the server giving KYA complete control. The machine is a Dual
400Mhz CPU, 300MB ram running Windows Terminal Server OS. With KYA’s
recent involvement with Rocket Arena 3, KYA decided to setup and run
a dedicated RA3 server on our dedicated Directlink port. In the few
short months the server has been up, <=={KYA}Rocket Arena 3==> has
become one of the top RA3 servers on the net.
It is unfortunate we were unable to use our own KYA built hardware.
However, the KYA "box" has been taken back to Mega’s where we will hopefully
be able to collocate the server in South TX somewhere. Future plans
for the Directlink, <=={KYA}Rocket Arena 3==> server call for eventually
upgrading the memory and CPU’s, but for now it is simply awesome!
-The
Curse Update 4/28/2002: Since the above was written by {KYA}Curse
(he dropped the "The" hehe) DirectLink eventually were bought out by a
larger company and Matt went on to work somewhere else, and we lost our
port. Curse did purchase the hardware from Matt, and currently still
has it at his house. After that the <=={KYA}Rocket Arena 3==> showed
up for a while being hosted at
www.waldenweb.com by a guy that went by /dev/null who was a friend of
one of KYA's newer members Vigilante. But that fell through
eventually too. For several months the server was nowhere, but
Vigilante started making negotiations on our behalf with
www.pantheonhosting.com and
worked up a deal. They provide the hardware, and we as a clan rent
the server from them at a very reasonable price. -Mega Original site design by
Rage
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