PBBans Has Closed Its Doors

[Schlup]

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.

PBBans 2003 - 2009

Well I don't really know what to say, but as the title says PBBans 2003 - 2009 that's it, PBBans has finished. To be honest I'm lost for words, I didn't see this coming. Over the last few days we've had a series of Ddos attacks & this last one is the biggest we've ever had and has forced us to close up shop. The PBBans servers have already been canceled & will be shipped back to RodeoBob tomorrow or within the next few days. From everyone at PBBans, thanks for all the support over the last few years, It was good while it lasted.

From now on if we don't stream then it's back to the old school default 2 minute PB kick for anyone booted for a PB violation, yep 2minutes

They'll dish out a few hundred global bans every now and then after doing their silent detections, that's logging people using x hack, but doing nothing at the time & then at a later date, after a 'maintenance update'.. mass ban people for it. Global GUID ban covers all PB enabled servers, streaming or not.

Stream to psb, rep streaming (nothing live) they don't ban for demos & their staff are all ****ing idiots, psb is a business not an anti-cheat community, it's lawyers & legal action should you say the wrong thing.

Stream to gv, setup by people banned from PBBans for trying to fake logs and get innocent people banned, PBBans banned hackers on the staff list, spoofed bans on their ban list, a 3rd rate reject pro-cheat site, they can **** off.

Up **** creek without a paddle would be an understatement right now & I think allot of servers will also shut down because of this.

Even worse:-

Right now I'm trying to get a recent pbbans.dat (ban file) because at the moment, not one server has one that's been recently updated as we used PBBans enforce bans flag which meant no need for pbbans.dat, there is one, but hardly anything in it. Basically anyone that was on the PBBans MBI before all this can join our servers and play, I should have downloaded it before this, sorry.

PBBans|AcE - Retired "

[JamesBong]

So what does this mean exactly, that PB isn't going to work and good servers like [BPN] will get overrun by "idiots" & hackers will run amok, or will the "Gods" still be able to permanantly ban "idiots". I don't know too much about what was said so it's just a silly question.

[Schlup]

Punkbuster does ban people for 2 minutes and every once in a while they will put out global bans which all of those people are permanently banned.  We still have a TON of great admins, all of which have the ability to ban hackers on the spot.  At some point tonight the server will be restarted and then will begin streaming to Punksbusted which was a competitor to PBBans.  We used to use them when we had our CoD4 server setup but I liked the UI of PBBans better so we switched when we put up the CoD5 server.  There was no need to run both streaming sites so the Punksbusted account for BPN went inactive.  I have requested reactivation tonight and have already setup everything on the server to begin streaming live once the server is restarted.

[Monkey_Grill]

Too bad these weren't the words of EA.

[Schlup]

LOL...oh you know you'd miss them if EA shut their doors.

[Schlup]

They aren't closing they're moving to NY 

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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 http://twitter.com/PBBans

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.

[Dark Insomniac]

Twitter is fowling

[Schlup]

What the heck does fowling mean?