Revival and Updates!

BNC4FREE has lacked some dedicated and commited staff lately and this has led to the service becoming very un-reliable and buggy. As owner and founder of the service, i personally do not like seeing the service so un-reliable and unsupported and will admit that i havent been paying full attention to it myself. However, BNC4FREE is going to remain a free service for many more years and i am determined to revive the service back it to its stable and reliable state. I have already anticipated that this may take some time due to the fact the staff are inactive for one reason or another. The plan of action is generally as outlined below:

All servers are going to be closely monitored and checked for reliability. If a server fails, please can you report it to Russell via Private Message in #bnc4free on our main irc network (irc.surgehost.net). This helps to find patterns in its crashes or buggy periods and also informs us sooner rather than later. If any servers are seen to be continously failing, we will make arrangements to buy a new server and move all users from the buggy or faulty server onto the new server. Users will be contact via email in the event of this occuring.

Note: With regards to il.us.bnc4free.com and dk.eu.bnc4free.com, some of the user data was lost from both of these servers and we only have backups from February/March. We do appologize for this and this is due to lack of monitoring on our part. We will be restoring the backup of il.us.bnc4free.com onto our new server (tx.us.bnc4free.com) during the course of this week. All users that were on this bnc will be emailed informing them of the change. With regards to pa.us.bnc4free.com, we have had some news on whats causing our dedicated server to crash from 1and1’s Data Centre Team. Some of the users on this BNC will be moved to improve the entire servers stability. The relevant users will be emailed when this change occurs.

This week we will be opening staff applications ofwhich will be reviewed daily. Applicants that we feel would make good staff members will be immediatly placed on the staff team and monitored until we are sure that they can be trusted and dedicated to their staff position. Staff will be expected to help everyone involved with BNC4FREE and monitor the servers usages to prevent abuse.

BNC4FREE Operates on a few networks ofwhich we expect users that currently have a bnc with us to idle on. Currently, there are not many users abiding by this very small and simple rule. We dont ask for much, so it would be nice if you could just respect this rule and idle on the channel that we ask you to idle on as per our Terms and Conditions. You can currently idle in #bnc4free on the following IRC Networks:

• SurgeHost - irc.surgehost.net
• SDXHost - irc.sdxhost.com
• GTANetwork - irc.gtanet.com
• Rizon - irc.rizon.net
• ConnectTek - irc.connecttek.net

If you are idling on this channel on any other network, it does not count as abiding by our terms and conditions! So make sure you are one of the above networks!!

BNC4FREE is currently looking for someone that Dutch that can finish translating our dutch version of the site at bnc4free.nl. The help would be much appreciated and rewards will be given to those that help! Contact russell[at]bnc4free.com if you think your the one that could do this.

Over the next few weeks, we will be introducing a few new servers and reviewing the whole way that bnc4free works. We will also be introducing web and email requests and upgrading our servers throughout the next few months. If you have any suggestions for BNC4FREE, you can email me at russell[at]bnc4free.com and it will be considered and looked into.

More Updates and Information will be posted pretty much daily so keep your eyes open and check back soon!

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