It has been a long, long road. I started running game servers back when I was 15 years old. I'm 27 now. These servers really turned me into who I am today, providing an environment where I could learn to code, and learn about system administration. All while having help and support from an amazing community, friends and staff team. Now days I work as a programmer and it would never have happened if it wasn't for this wonderful community.

But, as we all know. TF2 is quite old now. The servers don't see much activity, the donations aren't rolling in any more either. I've been paying the $120/mo hosting costs out of pocket for a while now. Me, my friends and the other staff members have simply lost interest in TF2 and moved onto other games, as have many people. We always thought about running other games, but the reality is that most games don't use dedicated servers anymore, and are instead hosted by the games creator. The industry has moved away from the community server model.

So, thank you to all of you - it really has been an amazing ride. But I think it's time for us to all move onto other things now.

We'll be shutting down on March 3rd, as that's when the billing period ends.

Hi folks, we are going to have a bit of downtime either today or tomorrow.

The downtime will be between 10pm EDT on 5/2 and 10am EDT on 5/3, or between 10pm EDT on 5/3 and 10am EDT on 5/4, and last approximately 2 hours (but up to 12) this is due to our hosting provider needing to physically move our server to another data center.

As such, all services will be affected, the game servers, website, IRC and Mumble servers will all be down during this period.

Internap is having some sort of serious network problem in New York, causing a total loss of connectivity for our services there. They had this same type of problem approximately one hour ago, as well, for about 5 minutes.

We are still awaiting an update from Internap on what happened an hour ago and what is happening again now (presumably they are related).

Update @ 12:20am EST: We continue to wait for Internap to resolve the problem in their New York market. They have told us that there is currently no estimated time to repair, as they don't yet know what is going on.

We, at Azelphur servers, would like to wish all of you a very happy new year and hope you all had a wonderful 2016... or as good as you could expect. For those of you who pay attention, we have been running a giveaway over Christmas, you can read more here[game.azelphur.com] if you hadn't seen it already. However, we have now drawn the winners as below!

Fāroe has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Dragoncraft has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
BSG_Adama has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
JoshYesThatJosh has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Synicle has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Birdabo has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
8mobidik8 has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
cheetahman777 has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
× ÎµÒ“Ò“ тнε кιllεr вя has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Mr.Wat3rm3lon Doge has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Dimdagreat has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Turtlenubz has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Sana has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
OG Locomotive has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
IllusiveMan has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Thesonicdude has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
imperfectionist336 has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
Lemonchickeno has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
RaidenKang has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
[TWM] JanisB has won: Mann Co. Supply Crate Key

Ready set "360 no scope" has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
[SH] Istinkrealbad [Trading] has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
FESTIVE DUDE has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
[dsyr] destroyer3230 has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
jackie chans tits has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
Frosty✫ has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
ElectroSpanz has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
Runner023 has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
Pseudo.Anomaly has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
FireLord123 has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
stephengriffin27 has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
corn has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
CORADS183ST has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
Joetality5149 has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
Leonardo has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
Shku has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
Burrito Man has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
🎄 King_Chackas 🎄 has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
Rawlazy32 has won: 1 week of premium on our servers
MlKE`e has won: 1 week of premium on our servers

Within the next few days, the winners will receive a trade request (if available) or a friend request from myself. You will have 14 days to accept after which time the prize will be given to someone else. Premium winners will need to ensure they have an account on our website to receive their premium. Winners were picked from all entries by generating random cryptographically secure numbers.

If you have any questions, please do ask away here or on the forum post above!

Good evening, mentlegen!

It's that time of year again, so to get into the holiday spirit, we are hosting another Christmas giveaway where you can win a TF2 key or premium on our TF2 servers, theres 20 of each to give away!

This year we're doing it a little differently. To enter, all you need to do is play! Every day that you play on any of our servers, you gain an entry. You can come back on addition days to get more entries!

The entries will start very shortly after this goes out and will end on the 29th December! Winners will be drawn by the 3rd.

Read more about it here[game.azelphur.com] and let us know why you like playing Azelphur servers

Happy holidays and good luck, from everyone at Azelphur Servers!