To avoid the speculation that's been going on over the state of our servers, here's the real story, all collected in one.
Any future discussion on server status will take place in *this* thread. From here on to eternity, or the next official post on the subject. Threads will not be retroactively merged, because there's a lot of BS in the other threads. I will keep the latest official server status as a sticky at all times. Keep it out of the Inn and Bugs.
1) Server is, performance wise, tagging along just fine. Hard drive, RAM and CPU are handling the recent influx of players very well with some trivial optimization of map load/save times etc.
Loftar edit: When Jorb says "tagging along just fine", he really means that it isn't currently breaking. However, it should not be construed to mean that there isn't the slightest bit of strain on it. It wouldn't manage any vast amount more players right now. If I were to guess, things might start getting a bit ugly around 300-400 simultaneous players, but maybe earlier depending on how various algorithms turn out to scale. I do have plans for optimizing various parts of the server code, mind you, but I haven't done so yet, and doing so will take a bit more time than I have right now.
2) We have had some massive bandwidth problems lately. Technically we should have 10 Mbps sending band -- we're currently sending *2.5 -- but for some reason (Which loftar is working on) we can't seem to get much more output than that. While this remains an issue, we will have the lag. We are working on this. This is a priority.
Loftar edit: As noted later on in this thread, I have a potential fix for this now, but it hasn't been verified to work yet due to too few players being logged in right now. We'll see if it works once the russians get back online.
3) We do not believe we have been DoS:ed. We're certainly not under attack. We've had two massive bandwidth-spikes, but they do not seem to be related
4) Heirs of Rurik are, as a matter of simple course, very welcome in the H&H game, and forums. We are proud to have you, please bring your friends.
Loftar can fill this in with actual tech if he wants to. I suggest he do that as marked comments entered in as edits of this entry. Over and out.