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Elora Taurus
« on: February 01, 2016, 09:35:57 pm »





Elora Taurus is a Community Server Project in which we provide free Servers to the public for different games instead of charging for usage, however in return Elora Taurus advertises itself on each Server it provides. Elora Taurus prefers to strictly provide for public servers rather than private servers and does not believe it is a Server Host or Provider therefore it strictly does not sell its services to the public or to private gaming communities.



What makes Elora Taurus different
Each Server Project exists on a Virtual Private Server with its own allocated resources, this allows us to regulate and control the usage of our public servers effectively. Each VPS gets a set priority level of its allocated Core usage so the high priority levels always have first opportunity to move to a Core that is not being used much. The idea is that the different Core and Threads on our Servers are being used to run the specific Virtual Servers rather than shift in a way that Servers are stacked and thereby could be sharing a Core in a way that causes Lag due to no grouping of resources.



Servers

Currently, Elora Taurus has to following Virtual Private Servers in place to serve the Napoleonic Wars Community. Elora Taurus is hoping to extend to different games that our community play and would like to see us provide servers for.

Eloxi Alpha V.1
Bandwidth: 1Gbps
Location: Paris, France
Download: 850Mbps
Upload: 895Mbps
OS: Debian 7
Panel:Custom Webmin Panel

Elexa Alpha V.1
Bandwidth: 100Mbps
Location: Paris, France
Download: 820Mbps
Upload: 455Mbps
OS: Debian 7
Panel:Custom Webmin Panel



Planned Servers for Napoleonic Wars

The following public & private Server's are planned for Napoleonic Wars

Elora Community Server
The Elora Community Server is specifically made to host our public servers for the NW Community. We wish to bering alternative servers to try with a degree of difference compared to other servers in the NW Community. We do not however, intend for any of these servers to directly compete with our fellow community servers provided by different providers/groups.

Elora_Roleplay
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- 100 Slots
- Custom Scripts/Maps

Elora Roleplay is the revised, smaller and more competent version of Community Roleplay. It will have a host of new maps aimed at smaller player amounts, including new Roleplays that are aimed for enjoyment and easy management of its Admins. Elora Roleplay exists solely as an alternative Roleplay Server rather than a direct competitor to other servers.
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Elora_Conquest
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- 100 Slots
- Custom Scripts/Maps

Elora Conquest is a Conquest Server that takes the Conquest Maps from Community Roleplay and revises them in a more enjoyable way to compliment our fellow NWPublic Friends at Miniseige. This Server will have our updated D-Day and Trench Map. We plan on having this running mostly automated so like Minisiege, is a Server you can join on any player amount and still have fun.

We plan on also having AI meshes done so that on low numbers, a few bots can join in to keep a decent flow.
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Elora_Party
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- 64 Slots
- Custom Scripts/Maps

Elora Party is an original idea that takes homeage of the old Retro Party games dating back to the 1990’s and early 2000’s; featured mostly on consoles such as the N64, Dreamcast and Playstation 1. This Server is all about competitive mini games where players are battling on specifically made maps that have rules designed around remaking an older party game.

As this Server requires an Admin to play well, we plan on having an automated Deathmatch or Team Deathmatch mode with custom scripts to make the concept different and a complimenting alternative to Tropical Paradise, without being a direct competitor to it.
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Elora Competitive Server
The Elora Competitive Server is specifically made to host tournaments and competitions found in NW. We wish to Sponsor additional servers for Tournaments in the EU by providing this Server for usage in it.

Tournaments and Competitions we’d like to sponsor in the future including:
EU Regimental Groupfighting League
EU Napoleonic Wars League
Napoleonic Wars World Cup


If any Tournament Organizers would like to use our Competitive Server then please contact us and we’ll try sort something out. Please note though, we will not be providing Scripts or Webmin access but we can upload any custom maps or restart the servers if required.

Elora Regimental Loan Server
The Elora Regimental Loan Server is made to be a small list of Servers for NW that small regiments who are not in the position to either:

A. Afford their own private server or
B. Are not big enough or too new to benefit from their own server.

Small regiments can therefore apply to borrow one of our loan servers for up to 1 month at a time. They can not run events on this server however, due to its slot limits and of course, being a free server for borrowing they have not been set up in mind to handle more then effectively 150 players at any stage.

Our FSE page will contain the list of available Servers to borrow for your regiment, though we have strict rules for use with these.



Elora Taurus Events
Elora Taurus will be hosting its own Events and possible tournaments in the near future. We welcome all and plan to enter our own small team, which will be made of members of regiments who are affiliated or friends with Elora Taurus.





Elora Taurus are proud sponsors of the 63ème Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne EU.

The 63ème Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne have cared about its community and go the extra mile to help out its members. They provide not just a friendly, competitive Regiment in NW, but also a community that play other games and future good friends to talk to and play with in the online world.

Elora Taurus probably wouldn't have existed if not for the 63ème Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne.

If you would like to apply to the 63ème Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne you can do here

Please also mention Elora Taurus in your application if you make the decision to join them in the future.

Elora are official members of:




Elora Taurus Steam Group





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Regimental Loan Server

Elora Taurus can provide multiple loan servers to small regiments who are looking for a temporary solution. However, please note the below rules in place for using our loan servers. Breaking these rules can result in your server being deleted without warning.

Terms of use

By using Elora Taurus provided servers for your regiment, which is free of charge, you accept that you, the application holder are directly responsible for the usage of this server within its time of your regimental usage. You accept that if Elora Taurus finds you, your regimental, or anyone on your server causing unreasonable amount of resource usage, of which can only be explained through the breaking of the agreed rules, you accept that Elora Taurus maintains the right to close your loaned server and re-host it to another applying regiment.

Elora Taurus will not provide you with FTP Access, nor to our Webmin area, however, the server will contain Elora Taurus made training maps for you to use, which we release periodically (announced on our steam group) which are uploaded to our Servers. We can also upload any Maps you would like to use to the Server on request.

*These training maps are made for public use but are intended to be exclusive to our servers, therefore it is not accepted for these maps to be featured on other servers. While Elora Taurus can not take any action against copied maps, we will however revoke access to any and all of our servers current and in future should we find any users copying our maps without our consent.

To maintain a lag free experience for anyone else using these servers we ask that people do not use excessive amount of bots in Commander Battle or a large amount of Bots in general. Each bot is 50% usage of a player and we have not set up this server with a large amount of players to be using it at any one time.

Elora Taurus is linked into Steam, which means by providing us your Steam URL, you also provide us the ability to ban you from our Steam Servers, so think before you apply if you plan on being mischievous.

If you accept these terms please fill the below:

Server Application Form

Regiment:
Regiment Position:
Your Steam Profile (link):
Leaders Steam Profile:
Regiment Steam Group:
Regiment Website (if applicable):
Regiment FSE Thread (if applicable):

How many Slots would you like to take out?

How long would you like to borrow a server?

Do you have any custom maps you'd like us to put in?



Applying for Elora Taurus to host your NW Server Project

While Elora Taurus does not currently offer hosting plans, we'd love to know if we are a group that you would like to host your public server project, or future public server project with. Elora Taurus is a completely free Server Project that while does accept donations, does not request them. However, being that we are free and already mainly pre-planned in how we use our machines, you have to understand that our resources are limited for projects not pre-planned with us and therefore, it is best to look into taking out with a proper hosting provider such as Beyond-Servers who have the experience and resources to give your future players the best possible experience on your server.

The below are what we would ask in return for hosting your public server if and when we gain resources to offer this (not strictly limited to NW, but also the upcoming Battle Cry of Freedom).

Elora Taurus Hosting Terms of Service

In return for hosting your public server, Elora requests the following:
- Branding in your intro message that the server is provided by Elora Taurus.
- Credits to Kanade Tachibana in your intro message if you wish to use his Scripts.
- Mandatory Admin position on your server so we can routinely monitor and aid with admining.
- Written agreement on the resources you require and that you plan on using the server for the intended reasons stated.

In return we provide you with the following:
- a Virtual Private Server for your Server(s) for NW.
- FTP & Custom Webmin Access to your Servers.

Servers can be restarted using your custom Webmin area. All Servers we use have bash files to enable them to restart upon crashing or being terminated.




Server Upgrade planned for March 2016
Our Alpha machine will be changing over in March, depending on the usage we may opt for a 100Mbps Bandwidth in return for a dual CPU solution with high Hard Drive fresh-hold (on the basis they are not complete garbage). Otherwise, we will be aiming for a SSD System in Paris, France or London, United Kingdom on a 1Gbps Bandwidth line.
« Last Edit: February 03, 2016, 01:59:41 am by Elora Taurus »

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Re: Elora Taurus
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2016, 09:38:31 pm »
Very nice thread.

Best of luck with the project. :)

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Re: Elora Taurus
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2016, 11:26:36 pm »
 Good luck.

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Re: Elora Taurus
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2016, 11:56:12 pm »
Best of luck with this!

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Re: Elora Taurus
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2016, 12:19:55 am »
Good luck
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Re: Elora Taurus
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2016, 06:30:59 pm »
Currently have a Server running Debian on a 100Mbp/s Bandwidth being set up over the next few days. If this one works out nicely for us, we will be taking out 3 additional Servers when we upgrade in March, so in total we will have 4 Dedicated Servers running on 100Mbp/1Gbp Bandwidth, allowing us to expand the Project to other games too.  :)
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