I'd be glad to volunteer my time on your servers

[ReubenMcHawk]

Hello Jest. I'm an Ace of Spades player, and someone who occasionally plays on your server. I've noticed a lot of hackers and griefers on there, and I'd be more than glad to help you out with some of those problems. I've had admin experience before on the two Minit servers, and I've yet to hear a critical remark of my job there.

And if not, then please for the love of God install this:
http://ace-spades.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=1567

[jest]

I've installed the anti-aimbot script on the France server, Going to make sure it doesn't trigger too many false positives.
Do people not votekick griefers/hackers on the server for some reason?  Is the pass rate too high?
I noticed the votekick Ban duration was set to 15, while the default ban duration was 1440, so perhaps after a voteban passed they'd join back after 15 minutes instead of 24 hours.  I'll be making those changes on all servers.

These are demo servers currently for Alpha, and not meant for core AoS gameplay or to be administrated, but for those to see how the game runs in each location.  The servers being populated wasn't my intention. 
Given the bandwidth cost of these servers I'm not sure why I still even have them up, but it seems there is a shortage of servers at least in the US area(top 25 servers are full).

[ReubenMcHawk]

Thanks for installing the script. Yeah, a lot of people either don't know about /votekick, or are just dumb and cry admin for a while. Part of the reason your servers are so highly populated is because the server page on ace-spades.com are sorted by their location to the site's hosting, which must be pretty close to wherever you host yours, leaving yours at the top of the play page.

As for false positives, try the options at the bottom of that forum post if you want the safest options. Those are the most definite ones and have the smallest chance of false positives.

If you do ever have any interest in keeping and maintaining the servers, I'd be more than glad to help you get things up and running.

[jest]

Thanks I'll keep the offer in mind.
The master server list I assume is hosted near Dallas, since Dallas pings 20ms or less to it.

On the other hand Chicago, Florida, Atlanta, Los Angeles and other locations appear near the top as well and are not geographically close, due to our premium bandwidth and routing.  Whenever someone orders a server(AoS or other), they generally fill up due to "low latency advertising".

Hopefully more people rent servers, so I can retire the demo servers, but currently there seems to be a shortage of hosts per player and I'm donating my hosting to help with that.