Hello all!
  So, at some point today we will be taking down Newbies, Proving and Unlimited for a couple hours. We're moving the box they are hosted on behind this new firewall and securing it better.

  The other servers will stay up during this period and Criminals Haven will be opened for public play, so you shouldn't lose any ability to play, and we are going to sync the Adv Dup folders finally!

  In other news, it seems almost certain now that the hashed passwords for forum accounts were leaked. We're talking to the police about the best way to proceed and will be filing a lawsuit in the coming weeks. Please ensure you have changed your passwords(Click here to get to your account settings) as we don't want anyone having their account hijacked.

  We have some exciting things planned for the future, starting with GMod13, but these will remain a secret until closer to the time. Rest assured that nothing of value for the future was stolen and we are looking carefully at balancing the reset issue people have complained about.

  Submit any ideas you have for fixing this feature before the end of next week, if they are better than our solution then we will implement them!

Enjoy.

Today I have put the revamped Gangsters server live on our new test server. We still have some firewall rules to work out and acceptable limits on how often someone can query the machine, but Gangsters is now using the live database and is open for play!


Assuming this all goes well, GangLand will come back online tonight. We'll have another couple of small periods of downtime while we revamp the rest of the servers at some point next week, but there's still plenty of testing to do before we are completely happy.

95.211.168.3:40000

ALSO: We have recent reinstalled our Teamspeak server on the other box, in order for it to be more protected against DDoS with the vastly heightened security. everything is fully set up, and it is 100% the same as the previous server. We have requested the domain change to the linux install, and it'll take 24-48 hours for it to fully update for everyone to the same domain. For those that it still doesn't work, there is also a temporary IP here:
ts3.gangwarsrp.com
The windows install of TS3 will be up for a few hours to give people time to find the new address, in case it doesn't work.
Enjoy!

As another extra special treat, we've also put GangLand live. It should function as normal and we'll monitor performance. You can find it via the frontpage, via your browser, or at 95.211.168.3:50000. Enjoy your weekend!

PS. Users are now limited to 40 queries per minute against our servers to reduce DDoS capabilities. If you sit there mashing the 'refresh' button every second, you will be blocked from refreshing. This is automatic and doesn't affect your ability to join. We'll keep tweaking it but 40 queries per minute per user is more than enough for anyone

Hey guys thank you for all of the support you have showed for the anniversary with the donations, memories, and playing the game. You guys are what keep the server running the way it is today, and the way it will be tomorrow. We are honored to have a player base such as yourself backing us, and helping us continue to bring a fun and enjoyable environment to you.

Alright well as for promotions go please put your hands together for
Haj
Boat
Jennings

These three have been put through the wringer, and somehow come out alive

Now for the new administrators please get out your popcorn bowls and point and laugh erm I mean put your hands together for these new additions to the team.
Evil Nemesis Will
Zeyami
Silence

These are three that stood out to me, and the rest of the admin team so please give them the same respect that you give the administrator team and help them out if they need it!!

Thor

Alright guys it is the two year anniversary of GangWars! All of the memories that these servers have created still give me a little bit of nostalgia!

For all of those that remember the old days, remember Zelda? Phantom? (still here just not head admin) Shiny?

All of these people have sculpted GangWars into what it is today! Anyone remember Deco? Haha those were the good old days when GangWars was just developing. It has only been growing ever since, and we have been here this whole time!

I remember when Zelda would kill anyone who tried to challenge her on her rules even when she was wrong!

Phantom was the one that always wore the dress and always will be the one who wears the dress on our admin team

Shiny will always be remembered as the "cop"  haha.

And me? I don't know how I will be remembered but that is to be seen! haha.

Does anyone remember the Wu-Tang/Storm fights that would go on in the servers? Most people would hide in their bases to avoid these but they were some of the most craziest fights this game mode had ever seen! Many would go on for 4-5 hours at a time! And still till this day the two best gangs in my opinion GangWars has ever seen!

Over the years we have all had times of laughter, raging, crying, and mainly a lot of fun. We have met new people who are friends, and some who have become enemies. This community has been one of the best Garry's Mod has ever seen! We still till this day cater to a larger amount of people! And over the next year we have much more coming, some very big updates are planned even some that will change a lot! So stay tuned! We are only growing and we could not do it without you guys!

I am happy to be sharing this moment with you guys, and look forward to spending the next year with you guys evolving to a whole new level!

As a reward for our loyal players we will be doing a double credits day! Also a DOUBLE XP! Not to mention I will be doing some events later on in the day tomorrow! Thank you once again guys! And please post your memories of the servers whether it be the fun, sad, raging, or just happy moments!

Thanks again guys!

Thor

P.S IF for any reason you have credit problems please pm me and I will get on them pronto! I will need your transaction id, steam id, and amount your purchased to check the database!

Hi Guys + Gals!
  We've now nearly finished a large migration of the whole webhosting infrastructure of GangWars! We were prompted to do this by a number of security concerns that have kept GWM down for the moment. Moving forward this should hopefully resolve any issues of this kind and ensure that we have a stable and fast infrastructure.

  Gangland has been running in test mode for a while now, and we've identified a couple of problems that need resolving, but over the next week you should see everything back up to 100% strength.

  I think it's important to say that we shouldn't be complacent on security issues. We can't guarantee 100% that account details are safe, and so please make sure you change your password as soon as possible. GWM passwords are significantly more secure but you should not use the same password on two sites no matter how secure they are.

  Please have a look through the website and see if you notice anything broken. We've changed everything about our infrastructure so there will be one or two things missing. Let us know, and we'll get them fixed as soon as possible.

Enjoy!