Insignia Blog

IGSA Shutdown and Partnership End

As the title suggests, The International Gmod Sandbox Alliance is disbanding, by the end of the week expect there to be no IGSA. For those who are unaware of IGSA, it was a group of Garry's Mod Peer to Peer players who had amassed a rather large player base of

Netgear Router disintegrating

I am writing this post after weirdly finding my own router quite literally disintegrating. We start this post by saying it isn't melting, at least due to heat, the "melted" part of the router is gooey like rubber and seems to be spreading across the bottom of the router. This

Personal | Dream PC Idea

Earlier I was watching a video posted by "SomeOrdinaryGamers" AKA Mutahar, titled Why I'm Quitting The Virtual Machine Stuff... and in this video he is talking about the trash heap windows is and once he brought up the updates I had to use the restroom. While pondering on the toilet

updates

Status page

I was recently looking at a startup (Branch) which is an online hangout. I found they plan on using Statuspage.io which happens to be an easier way for me to integrate incidents and planned maintenance that also pops up on the site! Unfortunately this isn't like Zabbix which would

New server arrival!

We recently received our long awaited 4th server, it is all setup and ready to go. Named MilkyWay Later tonight around 12am-3am EST , I will be transferring our game servers to this new system. That being said the game servers will be down between these times (or updated time). After

Server room/rack changes

As you may know, we recently started getting the servers ready to move to the server rack. They are in the server rack as of yesterday, with plenty of issues of course. What went wrong yesterdaySo, the first issue I ran into was not having a switch. A network switch

August 3rd, 2021 Server Downtime

This announcement will be updated with the estimated time that our servers will be down later today. Downtime EST Time Zone beginning: 5PM End: 5:45PM (estimated 45 minutes of downtime) UPDATE 8/3/21 - 3:40PM ESTWe have 2 pieces of equipment to arrive before we begin, another

Welcome!

Our Hardware

So, you may be wondering what we have running in our server rack currently, you just found the right place to learn! We currently have 3 physical servers, Galaxy, Aurora, and Tyrion. Photo by Taylor Vick / UnsplashGalaxy Galaxy is a Dell R710 2U server, featuring 2 Xeon X5550 CPUs and