As you may have noticed the servers are currently down. This is because we have submitted a format request on our dedicated server due to the fact I've spent 3 weeks trying to pinpoint the reason for the lag spikes.

To summarize before anyone tries to suggest stuff I've already tried here is what I did:

Checked CPU & Memory for errors
Checked HDD for errors
Checked bottlenecks in HDD, CPU, RAM & Network
Changed affinitys per server
Did fresh installs of each server
Updated every plugin on each server
Installed different games to check if it was a HLDS based issue

So far the only thing I found to spike was an occasional I/O spike and this only occured on player join. Everything else was running as it should be.

So to summarize: Servers will be down for a short period until the format is complete. Hopefully we will have fixed the lag, if not we will have to look into hardware replacement.

Oh and a BIG thank you to the players who constantly rejoin because of their negative score then complain of the lag We you %-6 lol

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