Smugleaf said:
Yes, because CS:S had huge turnouts at most of the LANs the year before he took office. /rolleyes
You don’t understand. Hopefully you will some day.
Smugleaf said:
I am aware it’s run on his computer, and frankly, that’s fine by me. As long as I have a reliable server with friendly people on it, I wouldn’t care if it’s hosted in North Korea.
You’ve obviously never played on a “reliable” server in NK. If you had you’ve narrowed down your expectations more. 
The point of a server being on Atari isn’t that it’s simply “up”. There’s much more too it than that. Do you intend to play on our server over the Christmas or summer breaks? I hope not, felix’s computer won’t be on campus. Even if it is, most UNC schools are cutting off power to the dorms for the winter break. The point of having Atari is that we have a unified presence online that doesn’t change based on who’s in office or what time of the year it is. All our servers are on the same IP and thus easy to find. They’re all on the same machine and thus easy to manage. They’re all on the same subnet, unfirewalled, unmonitored and unfiltered by ITS, thus better to play on. Atari is 1 hop from the main connection, Reynolds is 7 hops. Atari has a backup diesel generator, Reynolds does not. We have a $5,000 server sitting on a unmetered private gigabit connection, essentially a $13,000/month connection, and you’re fine with using a measly quad-core, or less, sharing a gigabit connection with 250 other people?
I think I’m starting to see why you guys never get along with alumni. Our expectations and desires are in a totally different league than what you’re playing in.