There have been many, and regular, reports of lag on the Red Devils Servers. I would like to point out that there are a few people who can never play on [THE] servers, and others who suffer little or no lag at all. Please bear in mind that it may not have to always be the servers fault - sometimes there could be a bad connection at your end.

I would like to point out that this is not Platinum Servers. I am sometimes rudely reminded that Platinum Servers is a much better host, and indeed it is. I would like to point out that Platinum Servers ONLY hosts game servers, and has a much higher spec machine, enabling WhiteKnight to run slightly more, better servers than us. On the Red Devils Servers we have a much lower spec machine, that shall be upgraded at the end of our year contract. We also not only run 15 ZDaemon Servers, but the ZDaemon TeamSpeak Server, FTP, numerous websites using Apache (including the one you are reading right now) and game servers for other games as part of a fund raiser. Servers cost money, and if I had a few more donators I'd be happy to upgrade the server, and continue paying a massive share towards it in order to provide better quality gaming to the ZDaemon community. If you want to donate via Paypal please click on the link to the left, otherwise, contact StealthCP on IRC for more information.

To circumvent this problem I can offer some advice. If you live in Great Britain you will benefit greatly from Fasthosts Broadband or MultiplayDSL, the two server hosts used by Red Devils and Platinum. More expensive than your equivilent speed broadband from other UK providers, both provide a high speed and clear, low-latency connection to any server host located on the same premises. As such, using MultiplayDSL will give you an excellent connection to Platinum Servers, and as such with Fasthosts Internet. As both Fasthosts and Multiplay have fibre optic connections to each other, you will benefit on both sets of servers with the same internet connection. It's worth the money if you are serious about gaming :) I'd recommend Multiplay's 'for play', and Fasthosts Buisiness option, though any choice will provide a great connection the UK servers at large.

Once again I'd like to apologize for the lag the people are suffering, and measures to resolve this in the future are coming soon.

Recently there have been some complaints on crashing game servers hosted on [THE]. I would like to apologize for the gameplay lost due to this problem.

The offending wad, Red Devils CTF, has been removed from the Public CTF server rotation. I have contacted the creator of the wad to release a patched version with the offending maps fixed, which should happen in due course. It is also possible the wad shall be hosted on a seperate server, so as not to affect the craze that is ZDCTFMP :P

I would also like to note that Doom 2 Remix, from the same author, also may crash from time to time. This is due to the sheer size of some of the maps, and the number of monsters it contains. There is no fix for this, but all Red Devils Servers will now automatically restart upon crash, if that ever happens.

Due to heavy maintenance on the server recently and a change of Operating System lead to problems and a downtime of over a week. I apologize for this but now that the issue has been resolved we aim to keep the server running indefinitely. I would like to thank Kilgore for the binaries he built for us, and many thanks to the various clan members who helped donate to keep this server running.

Good news for all you Red Devils fans. We have finally got the server up and running. The IP address for ZDaemon servers is 88.208.235.63, also rd-servers.ath.cx is the URL address, which will be host to the website soon.

More news updates will be added once maintenance is fully complete on the server.