The DC hub has served us thousands of games during it's two year life. It started out as the Arcers.net rogue server which I took control of in the final year of ARC. After the closure of ARC and the birth of Spark I transformed the server to be the first Spark Hub outside of Codemallet.

Born "US | DC 2", Spark's growing popularity meant the lobby server needed a machine to itself and the original DC hub was closed and DC 2 was renamed to simply "US | DC".

For the past year it has been kept going by numerous donations drives, without which the Hub would have closed long ago.

Since becoming a Spark Hub it has cost more than $1600 to keep running, with $489 of that coming from Donations and $354 from Kahn's 6 month sponsorship.

Until the launch of the New Jersey hub in August 2009 DC was the most popular hub on Spark.

Recently however, the cost of DC vs it's power and usage has not been so favourable. Our NJ hosts more games at a lower cost, and whilst there are no concrete plans for a replacement for DC we will set up a new hub should we see the demand, probably in Atlanta or New Jersey.

Our old friend DC will be closing on October 4th.

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