Skial

The router behind our anycast server with TF2 on it will be upgraded. This will cause a 7 minute downtime sometime between these time periods:

• Tuesday, July 23rd 10:00 PM
• Wednesday, July 24th 4:00 AM CST

These are the TF2 server on there right now.

• 5.181.89.10 2Fort+ US
• 5.181.89.11 Payload+ US
• 5.181.89.12 Dustbowl+ US
• 5.181.89.13 Deathrun US
• 5.181.89.14 Saxton US
• 5.181.89.15 Zombie Escape
• 5.181.89.16 Turbine+ TX
• 5.181.89.17 Hightower+ US
• 5.181.89.18 Jailbreak

Some people have been complaining that our servers are broken because they can't randomly change loadouts.

All you have to do to fix this is reconnect to the server.

Steam's item servers have been going up and down every day, particularly around 12-6 PM Eastern since summer vacation started. All tf2 servers will try to automatically reconnect when this happens.

But if you are on the server when it loses connection to Steam, you will be unable to switch loadouts until you reconnect to the server.

That's why if you connect to another server like casual, you will see the item server is up and wrongfully blame us. Because by the time you connected to the other server, they reconnected back to Steam or the Steam server they happened to connect with never went down in the first place.

The machine running our servers in Dallas went down for an unknown reason.

• Deathrun US
• Saxton Hale US
• Zombie Escape
• Turbine TX
• 2Fort x10 randomizer
• Turbine x10 randomizer

We're using this opportunity to move these servers to the new network. Please update your favorites.

• 5.181.89.13 Deathrun
• 5.181.89.14 Saxton
• 5.181.89.15 Zombie Escape

We have been working very hard on our own network in the past few months which promises lower pings and increased DDoS protection.

For a professional explanation of what anycast is, you can read Cloudflare's article here: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/glossary/anycast-network/ If you already know what Cloudflare is, then you can think of it as Cloudflare for our TF2 servers instead of just websites.

If you are still confused, here is our explanation.

In a normal setup, attackers overwhelm a server's connection to the internet by crowding out legitimate users.

By running our own network and placing filtering routers all over the world, we can block the attacks before they travel all the way to the server.



Some hosts already block attacks like this but since they have thousands of customers, they only want to protect websites which are easier to do and don't want to spend the time to protect a niche like TF2.

This...