About Josh

Hello, my name is Josh and I am a Co-Founder and Managing Member of Blue Fang Solutions, LLC. I've been an avid gamer for most of my life on all platforms such as Nintendo, PlayStation, Wii, and Xbox. My love and my passion is definitely PC gaming though. I have played PC games since before I can even remember. I have found the job of my dreams where I can do what I love to do every single day and I turn it into a living. PC gaming and game server hosting go hand in hand because I can play the games I host with the people I serve. This is one of the daily joys of my life and I wouldn't change it for the world.

NS2 Combat Preview & Giveaway

Natural Selection 2: Combat is a first-person team-oriented multiplayer shooter developed by Faultline Games and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. Players fight for either the Trans-System Federations (TSF) Space Marines or the Alien species known as the “Kharaa”, with both sides having a completely different set of lifeforms and abilities. The marines rely heavily on an array of high-tech ranged weaponry and mechanised armor, while the aliens rely on stealth, speed and strength. Additionally, aliens can evolve from a small but nimble and dangerous creature into one of five life-forms with unique abilities. NS2: Combat features intense two asymmetric teams in a fast-paced fight for survival, implemented using the beautiful Spark engine.

You can read more directly from the developers website

There is a 96-hour mega-stream for NS2 Combat at the Fault Line Games Twitch.tv page

By | October 26th, 2014|Categories: Gaming Events, Gaming News|Comments Off on NS2 Combat Preview & Giveaway

Life is Feudal Servers Now Available!

RENT LIFE IS FEUDAL GAME SERVER

Life is Feudal game server hosting (monthly rental)
 
[NOTICE] This game is in early access Alpha stages. There are no guarantees of performance or reliability with your dedicated server. Server software is only 32-bit resulting in crashes after 4GB RAM.
 
[NOTICE] PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS RESOURCE USAGE CHANGES.
 
Life is Feudal: Your Own is an alternative to the new and revolutionary Life is Feudal Sandbox MMORPG. LiF:YO is a pocket world, which gives you freedom in creating your own server and your own rules. LiF:YO offers you essential tools to configure your server anyway you like and allows you to play with your friends. You are only limited by the size of the map and maximum amount of players that can play with. In LiF:YO you are free to modify the game assets to create the gameplay to your preferences.
 
There are also features that are not available to you in this version that you will only have access to in the LiF massively multiplayer official servers. Features like guild systems or claims are not implemented in LiF:YO so you will not be able to experience some of the greatest elements of the game like guild wars and sieges, this will be available only on LiF official servers. You can enjoy LiF:YO features and stick with your friends on your own server or join someone else’s and experience what else LiF:YO has to offer.
 
Remember “Life is Feudal” and you can define how feudal it will be in Your Own world.
 
BFS Features
Official Server Provider
– Overseer Panel™ (our custom control panel)
– Web Based File Management (FTP access)
– 3rd Party FTP Access (FileZilla/WinSCP)
– 24/7 BFS Support (tickets, live chat, steam, ts3)
– Free MySQL Database with every LiF:YO server
– Automatic Server Restarts (server reboots if it crashes)
 
Rent Your Own LiF:YO Server Here
Life is Feudal Website
Life is Feudal Forums
Buy LiF:YO (only $34.99 USD)

By | September 20th, 2014|Categories: New Games|Comments Off on Life is Feudal Servers Now Available!

Changes to Advanced DDoS Filtering

[UPDATE – 1:07AM EST 9/20/2014] No solution was able to be provided by our ISP in Dallas, TX regarding the Layer 7 filtering. We have initiated emergency maintenance in Dallas, TX to remove Layer 7 filtered IP addresses and we are assigning new IP addresses to customers on these IP addresses. Please check your GameCP (Overseer Panel) to see your new IP address.

If you are a customer of ours in Dallas, TX or you were planning to move your services there you may want to read this. We will most likely be changing and/or completely removing the Layer 7 filtering for our DDoS protection in Dallas, TX. Some of the recent scrubbing changes made by our up-stream provider has started causing wide spread connectivity issues to all services in the location. The basic DDoS protection will still be in place but this change, if it does happen, will require all of our customers using the DDoS protected IP addresses to be moved to a new IP address as the routing for the current IP’s cannot be modified from their current state.
 
To put this in more simple terms to explain what is going on we can break it down like this; We currently run multiple services in our Dallas, TX location. The basic DDoS protection filters out most TCP traffic but game servers and voice servers like TeamSpeak 3 use UDP to allow users to connect. The Layer 7 protection is too aggressive against UDP connections and that is what is causing connectivity loss and service drops.
 
When we implemented Layer 7 advanced DDoS protection everything was working perfectly for some time and all of the filtering was allowing legitimate traffic through while at the same time blocking attacking IP addresses. In its current state, the advanced filtering is now way too aggressive and it needs to be scaled back some as it has continually been blocking legitimate traffic. If you are in our Dallas, TX location you understand our frustration as you constantly get dropped from your services and cannot FTP into your server files. This is totally unacceptable in our eyes.
 
We have already been hounding our up-stream provider in Dallas, TX to provide us with a solution to these filtering problems for the last few days and they have not been able to provide us with any sort of solution thus far. This unfortunately is why we are letting you, the customer, know what is going on and what we are doing to provide an alternative. The worst case scenario is that we move everyone in Dallas, TX to new IP addresses under the basic DDoS protection with Layer 3 and 4 filtering instead of Layer 7. Our ISP in Dallas, TX has also agreed to block specific ports that will not leave customers’ services vulnerable to attack if we need to take this route.
 
If you have any further questions or concerns regarding this situation please let us know by submitting a support ticket and we will do our best to work with you. We hope we can find a solution to these issues within the next few days. If no solution to the filtering issues is found we will move forward with our plan to lower the advanced filtering settings to level 3 or 4 and distribute new IP addresses to everyone in Dallas, TX.
 
TL;DR DDoS protection in Dallas is having issues and we are working to provide an alternative solution. Possible that all customers in Dallas, TX will be migrated off current DDoS protected network to new, less aggressive, protected network. Submit a ticket with any questions.

By | September 19th, 2014|Categories: BFS News|Comments Off on Changes to Advanced DDoS Filtering

Rust Legacy and Experimental Servers Now Available

RENT RUST GAME SERVER

Rust game server hosting (monthly rental)
 
[NOTICE] This game is in early access Alpha stages. There are no guarantees of performance or reliability with your dedicated server.
 
Rust is a survival game available on Steam and created by Facepunch Studios (the same people who created Garry’s Mod). Rust was inspired by games like DayZ, Minecraft and Stalker. It is a multiplayer game where you and other players are attempting to survive through the awful conditions, where humanity has been reduced to cavemen. Rust’s world is harsh. The environment is not kind. Bears and wolves will chase and kill you. Falling from a height will kill you. Being exposed to radiation for an extended period will kill you. Starving will kill you. Being cold will kill you. Other players can find you, kill you, and take your stuff. Fortunately for you, you can kill other players and take their stuff too!
 

Rust’s Development
 
There are two different versions of Rust. When the game is launched in Steam players are asked if they want to Play Rust or play the Experimental Version. The version that launches with ‘Play Rust’ is the version that most people know about and are currently playing. It is currently the most stable. However, the Experimental Version is the focus of the development team, and it will eventually take over from the main version when it has sufficient features and when the majority of players have moved over. We do not have a timescale for that.
 
Experimental is a complete rewrite of Rust. It isn’t just a patch or an update. We’ve spent the past few months remaking the game from the ground-up, re-building it to enable us to fulfil our ambitions in a way that was impossible with the original release. This isn’t unusual: games get rebooted all the time, but we’re in Early Access and there’s no way to hide that, nor would we want to. It’s part of the process. We want to get the message out that we are working on Rust, just not on the version the majority of players are experiencing.
 

 
BFS Features
– Overseer Panel™ (our custom control panel)
– Web Based File Management (FTP access)
– 3rd Party FTP Access (FileZilla/WinSCP)
– 24/7 BFS Support (tickets, live chat, steam, ts3)
 
Play Rust Website
Rust Facepunch Forums
Read More About Rust
Buy Rust via the Humble Bundle Store
Buy Rust via the Steam Store

By | September 3rd, 2014|Categories: New Games|Comments Off on Rust Legacy and Experimental Servers Now Available

Orion Prelude Servers Now Available!

We now support the Spiral Game Studios game Orion Prelude! Flat rate of $15/mo for 10 slots any game mode / any map!
 
‘ORION Prelude’ is an indie Sci-Fi shooter (FPS/TPS) that seamlessly blends together incredible visuals and addictive combat. It puts you and your friends together into intense, cinematic battles using some of the most incredible weaponry and amazing vehicles in which you must work or compete against one another to accomplish mission objectives, explore giant worlds and survive the devastating Dinosaur Horde.
 
In addition to the return of the adventurous, survival-based cooperative gameplay and retro-inspired Arena Combat, ‘ORION Prelude’ features massive, Open World Cooperative and PvPvE.
 
Order Your Server Today!

By | September 1st, 2014|Categories: New Games|Comments Off on Orion Prelude Servers Now Available!

Our First Official Blog Post!

It has been 3 years now that we have been in business and we never really thought to create a place where we can post our thoughts and happenings about things abroad and within BFS. We now think we should have a place like that and where better to have it than right here on our website! This news blog will contain some of the latest news and announcements from Blue Fang Solutions, LLC as well as international and domestic events pertaining to the gaming industry (and rarely outside of that).

So lets get started shall we? Stay tuned!

By | September 1st, 2014|Categories: BFS News|Comments Off on Our First Official Blog Post!