It is now run from a home of ex GM Kyle (I said above the dedi sub was cancelled).
The files are the same as is the 'player database'. Problem is a very significant rewind since GM420 didn't think of offloading the server database from the dedi before he abruptly pulled plug on it, so he gave Kyle files with an older database he had on his PC at home since for the last week or two, the server ran on dedi unattended due to his work taking him away from home (it is quite obvious that this is what happened).
He gave a notice in game that he decided to terminate the server and not even like ten seconds later, pulled the plug on it. I didn't even have time to read the notice second time and get in my head what that means. He didn't get the database first because he was dumping the server. But then in the mater of minutes, he changed his mind, likely because Kyle contacted him, and decided to give the files to him to run but the current database was already gone. IMO a trigger happy fool.
How much rewind you got depends on how much you played in the week or two leading up to this, for me as a second highest warrior (and highest active one), it totally killed the server and I am starting on Odyssey this weekend (unfortunate timing for Kyle when a new server is just opening but fortunate for me although I don't expect to like the server). I doubt very much that most pple will stay, I mean those that count for something on the server, probably the moochers for easier going (on this pretty well HR server) might stay since the promise is of easing it up even more.
A week's or more time of intensive daily 8-12h in two sessions on a server that only ran for several weeks is way too much of a setback. I am cut up over this since I didn't have such a good run on a mir server in a long time but what can you do.
Kyle says he will make it up by which he probably means to do exp/item fest
but even if he meant individual restoration (pple giving him screenshots to make the lost items and give them lost levels) that still would not cut it IMO, not by far, even if that was even realistic. In any case he would need to announce some specifics on it, not just promises.
BTW, everybody who accused GM420 doing it for a quick buck were dead wrong. I even doubt he made anything significant from this, likely because your accusations pretty well forced his hand to put all in GS on gold as well as gg and gold was plentiful in game, not a good move I'd say in retrospect.
But he destroyed his rep by the way he terminated the server on the spur of the moment, without any regard for pple playing on it (never mind that in retrospect we could not have expected the server to have very long time still ahead of it, the absence of the GM due to work elsewhere was telling).
Very much reminded me of the last IHALN's server some year ago, how that one also ended abruptly. Can only feel sorry for Kyle.