https://i.imgur.com/OaNnsaF.jpg

Couldn't fit the GPU otherwise.

Could you be a little more specific? I'm just seeing a ton of packet loss last night on the Kansas servers, is that what you mean?

Thanks to pubs.tf, there's now a serveme.tf for South East Asia over at https://sea.serveme.tf. Starting off with 4 servers located in Singapore.

resupply.eu and vanillatf2.org, rip

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Make a traceroute to the server IP with WinMTR and place the results here.

The ESEA configs are "unofficial" and from 2011:
"Push scoring - 3 points by one team or 30 minutes per half, first to 5 points wins the match."

https://i.imgur.com/LzbGQhn.jpg

Luckily it doesn't track my country radio listening habits

Here are a few ways
- Limit MySQL access with iptables to certain IPs
- Put the servers in a VPN, bind MySQL to the VPN address. (Has DO launched their VPC solution yet?7)
- Set up tunnels to the server hosting the MySQL server
- Restrict the MySQL user to a certain IP: 'foobar'@'123.123.123.123' (I like this one the least, since your mysql server is still reachable from the outside and bound to 0.0.0.0)

MySQL 1045 is an authentication error. So your sourcemod can connect to MySQL server, it just doesn't have the right credentials. You probably didn't set up the database user correctly in MySQL (Thermite's post has the right commands) or made a typo in your sourcemod configuration.'

Also, please bind to 127.0.0.1 if everything runs locally. Else you'll be mining bitcoins for someone soon.

If everything runs on the same machine, please do not set the bind-address to 0.0.0.0.

Do you get an error in sourcemod? Have you checked the sourcemod logs, have you checked the mysqld logs?

You'll be fine if you're also getting a decent GPU.

Brexit now please

Download and install Pingplotter
Run a plot to google.com or 8.8.8.8
Once you experience packet loss, take a screenshot and share it here.

Some smaller and bigger updates from the past month:

1. Thanks to Zolak, there's now a South American version of serveme.tf at https://sa.serveme.tf. Starting with 5 servers hosted in São Paulo, Brazil.
   
2. Slightly updated the design to have better compatibility with mobile devices and smaller screens in general.
   
3. Fixed an issue where FTP downloads weren't given enough time to complete, causing missing demos for long HL matches on na.serveme.tf
   
4. Fixed some small UI bugs
   
5. Modernized a bunch of code dependencies that were long overdue

Thanks :)

The map, config and the plugin are now available on all serveme.tf and na.serveme.tf servers. If you don't have (na.)serveme.tf premium you can sneakily enable the plugin by selecting "Enable demos.tf" when making your reservation, but you didn't hear that from me ;)