News and updates regarding the latest advances made by Blue Fang Solutions, LLC.
Now Offering Johannesburg, South Africa Server Hosting
The Johannesburg, South Africa facility is not in a direct flight path or low lying area and is centrally located between Johannesburg and Pretoria with a major power substation close by. A geotechnical audit has been done to ensure ground stability. This great new location will allow us to serve a more global community by offering our service and reputation to more people than ever before.
Now Offering Miami, FL Server Hosting
Increase your world wide reach with our Miami data center and offer your players lower latency with direct connectivity to 4 continents globally, including North America, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The data-center is built to withstand some of the roughest conditions in the area, including but not limited to category 5 hurricane winds. The Miami facility is staffed by technicians 24/7/365.
MIAMI, FL HOSTING NOW AVAILABLE
Now Offering Strasbourg, France Server Hosting
We are proud to announce that we have officially expanded our game hosting services to another highly demanded location. We are ecstatic to be able to offer this brand new location to previous, current, and future customers in the western part of France. We are looking forward to serve clients in this area for the foreseeable future. We also have plans to expand to more locations within the next couple of days. Do you live closer to Strasbourg, France? You can request your services be moved at absolutely no charge by submitting a support ticket and asking our technicians to move your services.
Terms of Service – Refund and Compensation Policy
This is a formal notice to any current and future customers that we have modified our Refund and Compensation Policy today January 6th, 2017.
You can review the updated policy by clicking here.
Infrastructure Upgrade
We are always working to improve our systems and have begun the process of moving our Dallas nodes to a new data center. This new data center will provide us access to a faster network and stronger DDoS protection. We have already upgraded Chicago and Los Angeles. We are also taking this opportunity to upgrade all our nodes to the latest hardware. All these upgrades are free to all customers.
New Hardware
Our new data-center locations will be receiving custom machines with the E5-1650v4 Intel CPU, 64GB RAM, SSD drives and premium bandwidth. These newer chips are faster and coupled with SSD drives will deliver the performance and reliability that we feel every single one of our customers deserve!
20GB DDoS Protection
The even bigger and most important upgrade is that our entire Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles locations, after the migration, will be protected with 20gbps of traffic protection and 60 million packets per second protection! This is a milestone for us as a company and an awesome benefit for our customers to enjoy. These same DDoS protection benefits will be coming to every one of our other locations in the future as well.
What To Expect
When we are ready to migrate your service(s) you will receive a direct email from our team stating that your service is now being moved. At that point in time your dashboard access will be suspended and your service will be gracefully stopped. All of your current server data will be packaged up and transferred to the new machine your service will reside on. Everyone will receive a new IP address and possibly a new Port (if necessary to avoid conflict issues) on the new upgraded hardware. We recommend that you inform your communities of the new IP address as soon as possible.
Questions?
Click the link below to submit a ticket to get more information. Please title your ticket “Infrastructure Upgrade” so we can find it faster.
Submit Ticket
Pricing Dropped for Empyrion Galactic Survival
As with any Early Access game we are always monitoring resource usage and game progress to see if any changes to the game constitute a new pricing structure. With some of the latest content and patch releases for Empyrion Galactic Survival we believe this to be the case at this time. Pricing is now $1.50/slot (down from $2.00/slot) for all packages 16-50 slots both monthly and quarterly terms. We will continue to monitor the game as it progresses and pricing is always subject to change throughout development, including increases in price if necessary.
SquadOps.gg Official Sponsorship
Here at BFS we are always looking for new communities and groups to align ourselves with. We feel that what we can bring to the table can help any community grow in size and clinch success in this gaming industry. It didn’t take long to put two and two together after talking with Karmakut, the Director of SquadOps, that BFS and SquadOps has a lot to offer each other. Since we are already an official hosting partner of Squad, we figured we should sponsor the largest and most anticipated events happening right now in Squad! We are announcing our official partnership and full support of the SquadOps.gg community events and we look forward to providing the Squad community with a solid, reliable platform to enjoy the SquadOps events.
What is SquadOps.gg? Squad Ops is a closed server community event focused on immersion and tactical gameplay. They aim to bring realistic scenarios into Squad while creating an interactive, cinematic experience for both the player and the spectator.
How can I join SquadOps.gg? Joining is simple and fast. The first step is to register on their official forums and fill out all the required areas. Next, simply navigate to the events page to register for an event. Confirm your registration and show up on Discord for the event.
READ MORE ABOUT SQUADOPS.GG AT THEIR WEBSITE.
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Planet Explorers Updates to 0.9 – 1 Year Later
The developers are alive! Here is an excerpt from their steam announcement about Planet Explorers 0.9 as well as the change list:
Happy Holidays everyone. Here’s the a0.9 build. It’s about a year late, and we are truly sorry for that, but sometimes, a major rewrite is needed (in retrospect, it’s up for debate). For players updating from a0.87, this is pretty much a new game. Everything has been changed over the last year. This build is a bit rushed, so we expect there to be bugs. We’ll straighten these out over the next two weeks. From now on, we’ll be updating directly to the release build instead of the beta. We will be releasing a new demo based on the a0.9 build within the next two weeks as well.
- A0.9 Changelist
- Fixed turrets not firing at enemies sometimes
- Fixed turrets not firing when not hit by an enemy
- Fixed jetpack animation
- Fixed NPCs not returning after chasing an enemy
- Fixed grenade projectile motion
- Fixed giant robot enemy weapons projectile motion
- Fixed ISOs disappearing after entering model scene
- Fixed Paja creation error in the desert
- Fixed world map not displaying anything in Adventure Mode
- Fixed turrets filling up durability after being picked up
- Fixed multiple colony UI bugs
- Fixed herbs adding full HP
- Fixed NPC spawning twice in camp
- Fixed repair machines not using resources
- Fixed kicking out NPC from colony and having the NPC disappear
- Fixed issue where some scripts can’t be learned
- Fixed issue of being able to pick up the ladder while on it
- Fixed problems with bird projectiles
- Fixed issue with NPCs not stopping for conversation in Adventure Mode
- Fixed fertilizer gun projectile
- Fixed issue with andhera not being scared of light
- Fixed issues with respawning a follower
- Fixed issue with NPCs waiting for food at the colony warehouse
- Fixed issue with follower’s HP not being full at the start
- Fixed issue with not being able to assign NPCs to some colony functions
- Fixed multiple coop Story mode bugs
- Changed the arrow hit effect
- Changed comfort level lowering speed
- Changed custom axe orientation
- Changed the range of looting for follow player camera mode
- Changed grenade throwing animations
- Tweaked weapons collision
- Tweaked vehicle driving controls
- Tweaked animal attack timing
- Tweaked shield sizes for colony
- Tweaked some story missions for better presentation
- Tweaked number of herds spawning
- Added animal area attacks hurting over animals nearby
- Added Puja camps to Adventure Mode
- Added new medicines
- Added a new prompt when trying to learn scripts that’s already been learned
- Added NPCs putting weapons away when out of ammo
- Added random color to NPC hair
- Added random color for NPC skin
- Added UI element for picking droppings
- Added new story missions
- Added a new story scene
- Added randomized animal sizes
- Added the Trade Post for colony in Story Mode
- Added diplomacy to Story Mode
- Added playable single player custom maps
- Added scenario editor to the World Editor
- Added ability to plant any object and AI in the World Editor
- Added new missions in Adventure Mode
This update drastically improved server performance and we have immediately dropped our pricing structure to compensate for the major reduction in resource usage. The game also now only supports 4, 8, 16 and 32 slots. We are not going to be offering 4 slots but we do have packages for 8, 16 and 32 slots. Check out our updated product page for Planet Explorers game servers.
Major Capacity Added – ARK Orders Now Open
RENT ARK SURVIVAL EVOLVED GAME SERVER
Hello everyone!
We are excited to announce that we have finally overcome our capacity issues and every location is now open for business! With the immense demand of ARK Survival Evolved server hosting we were absolutely slammed in every location. It took us a week to catch up and could not until recently open the ARK product page to all. We truly appreciate everyone’s patience while we worked our hardest to get to all of you.
Now that things are back to normal we wanted to let you know that we are again accepting game server orders full steam ahead for ARK Survival Evolved. With the new Patch 180 that got released yesterday (6/25/2015) we are now, as promised, offering lower slot packages! You can get 10, 20 or 30 slots now from BFS for ARK Survival Evolved hosting! Our pricing now starts as low as $19.95/month for 10 slots!
Based on resource usage changes from Patch 180 we now offer 10, 20, and 30 slot packages for @survivetheark! http://t.co/3pWFT5WyDY #playARK
— Blue Fang Solutions (@BluefangServers) June 26, 2015
We are also proud to say that we have sold over 700 ARK Survival Evolved game servers to date and they keep on coming! We are proud to serve such a awesome community for a great game. We look forward to being able to serve all of you for the foreseeable future!
Get 20% off your first month of ARK Survival Evolved with coupon code “playark20” during checkout: