I was also in the making of a gaming ladder/league website called Clan Network. This was going well until our sponsor pulled out and could no longer keep the promise of providing us with servers. Discussing the situation with the sites administrators we decided it was no longer viable to continue on our own, with me being sole designer and developer and only a handful of admins to run the site, we only had my web server which wasn't enough to provide a service of this scale.
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