When you are donating now you will be donating to our new (and shiny) business paypal instead of Sassfrass’s personal one. There shouldn’t be any problems but if you encounter any feel free to post in the complaints section of our forum.

There have been quite a few questions about what has been going on and since most of you who are asking aren’t in the steam group (hint, hint) I figured I would post an update of what has gone down throughout the day. Basically our website has fallen victim to a distributed denial of service attack which is simply spamming requests to our web server. By spamming requests the attacker is able tie up the web server thus preventing legitimate traffic, you and me, from getting to the website, hence the blank pages when you would try to load a page.

At first I had to take down the Lounge, accompanying Sassilization servers as well as the website due to the way they are integrated together but later came to a solution which allowed me to put up the servers. I talked over some solutions with a friend and one clever idea he had was to forward the traffic with some DNS changes to a site which might not be so friendly, Microsoft.com. Although this solution did relieve our web server it wasn’t desirable for obvious reasons. After talking again he hinted me to go look for a module for Apache (our web server) which is made for these kinds of things, so I did. I was able to find a module which looks for rapidly repeating traffic and, when it finds it, puts them on a blacklist which makes successive requests lead them to a 403 page.

We are still being attacked so you can understand if the site goes slow or if a page does not load at all.

Update:
We are no longer being attacked.

Update 2:
We are being attacked again. Whoever is attacking us, if you want to talk and possibly reach a solution please try us on our ventrilo: vent.sassilization.com port 4100

buckets.

This weekend, Cold and I plan on starting to re-do most of the functionality of Sassilization. What does this mean? It doesn’t really mean anything new for you guys.  Cold wants to remake and redesign the website and we both want to redo the current database structure to make it easy to modify & extend.  If the site is down over the weekend, don’t fret; it just means we’re working on it.  You may also see the servers down or passworded, this just means we’re working on them and the downtime should only be for a few hours at the most.  These changes will make it easier for us to link our servers and more features will be available to the other Sassilization servers such as the girl tag in Deathrun, DJ for jukebox, possible forum moderators only and other things. In addition we intend on changing the way ranks are stored to a flag based system which should allow us to easily add and change ranks without causing problems with any of the other ranks. Overall, these changes are mainly on the back-end; it is unlikely that you should notice any differences once we are done.

As suggested by Pharenhite I went ahead and created an IRC channel on Gamesurge. You can find us on irc.gamesurge.net in the channel #sassilization.

We find our selves in need of admins and would like to give everyone who wants it a shot. All the details are in this thread. Good luck!

Update:
Applications came in at a staggering rate and with almost 75 applications submitted I have locked the thread and the reviewing process will now begin. Thanks to everyone who submitted an application!

Update 2:
We had a very long discussion about every applicant and after narrowed it down to these finalists:

• Blankooie
• HavokDooms
• Sniper
• {: DA The Sissy Roo :}
• Crashinpa
• MightyFalcon
• Scapegoat
• [GU]SpRaY[AEG].vtf

After we had reached the finalists we went over them again and decided who we really wanted to be admin and came up with the admin list:

• Sniper
• {: DA The Sissy Roo :}
• Scapegoat
• [GU]SpRaY[AEG].vtf

Congratulations to everyone who got admin and thank you to everyone who showed interest in becoming an admin on our servers.

My spring break just ended and I don’t know if anyone else is still having theirs; but, Happy Spring Break anyway. I’m happy to see Sassilization can run by itself without any problems if don’t log on for an entire week. Many thanks to Cold and the Sassilization crew for making that happen.
Unfortunately, PulsarEffect was hacked and PERP was stolen in the process, which was then release.  It sucks to see that happen to such a great, potential community.  Hopefully Hunts can turn it around and take this as an opportunity to recode some things; maybe make PERP even better than it was.  Hopefully he can pull a “Valve”.
It’s been two weeks since the last blog post and this one has hardly any content.  I will try to see if I can find some more content filled news to post.

April Fools!

The same question keeps coming up about Nuclear Warfare: “Will it be associated with the lounge or will it be on its own separate server?”
Nuclear Warfare will not have a lobby system like Sassilization does. The gamemode will be hosted on our second server box; probably more than one server and it will be connected to your Sassilization.com account for things like bonus dough, records and playtime. We do not plan on releasing Nuclear Warfare at the moment. We also do not plan on having special upgrades for Nuclear Warfare like Sassilization. Hopefully this clears up the big questions, if you have smaller ones feel free to ask them in a comment.

I recently caught a bug and haven’t been feeling myself lately.

Still hard at work on Nuclear Warfare though.

Everything is still a Work in Progress, but please share your opinions.

EDIT:

I’m better now.