About

The Story

WoWps.org was born in 2006 from DJRavine's passion for World of Warcraft and the private server community. What started as a small Mangos-based server grew into one of the largest private server communities of its era — peaking at nearly 99,000 registered users across a decade of operation.

The site was built on the Mangos WoW private server web frontend by Alexandr Arutyunov (Lordsc), customised with a World of Warcraft Burning Crusade era aesthetic. The vBulletin forums launched on February 17, 2007, with Ryu as the first registered member. Within 18 months the community had surpassed 25,000 users. The forums hosted 5 emulator sections, a casino plugin, a shoutbox, custom development tools, and projects like FrozenBlade, Project: Genocide, and Covert Ops.

The sister site NADAsoft.ath.cx (later NADAsoft.net) served as DJRavine's personal portfolio and community hub, hosting WoW fonts, emulator tools, and coding tutorials that were downloaded over 20,000 times.

This archive exists to preserve that memory — the friendships, the late-night raids, the forum debates, and the creative energy that made WoWps.org special.

The Crew

DJRavine

Founder

3,012 posts — created and ran WoWps.org, built the MaNGOS WebPack, SCPtoSQL, Ascent Item Creator, and Virtue Realmlister

Ryu

Administrator

362 posts — co-admin and first registered member (Feb 17, 2007). Also ran ryusrealm.com

thePettyYeti

Super Moderator

2,720 posts — community leader, forum organiser, and voice of reason in many a debate

Kitten

Moderator

1,958 posts — created the FrozenBlade Template (25,000+ views), designed the NADAsoft theme

Spaz

Moderator

1,225 posts — long-serving moderator and one of the first 20 members to join

DMZ & Untold

DevLab

Core compilers, database creators (UntoldDB), and the technical backbone of WoWps development

»Yama« & Krymzon

Staff

445 and 412 posts respectively — early members from Feb 2007 who helped shape the community

Premium Member

Supporters who helped fund the servers and keep the community alive

Technology Stack

Mangos WoW Emulator - The private server core (4 realms: WoWeMu funserver, MaNGOS funserver, MaNGOS v1.12.1, MaNGOS TBC)
PHP/MySQL - Web frontend by Alexandr Arutyunov (Lordsc), with OpenX ad server
vBulletin 3 - Original community forums (2007-2012), migrated to MyBB in June 2012
MyBB - Community forums with casino, loyalty, shoutbox, and Thank You/Like plugins
Coppermine - Photo gallery for screenshots and community artwork
WordPress - NADAsoft.net ("DJRavine's CodeBook") with Ahimsa Download Manager

DJRavine

DJRavine (Adan Rehtla) was the founder and primary administrator of WoWps.org and NADAsoft.ath.cx. A qualified Software Engineer from Brisbane, Australia, he built the site from the ground up — setting up the Mangos server, designing the WoW-themed aesthetic, creating custom development tools (SCPtoSQL, Ascent Item Creator, Virtue Realmlister), and moderating the community. With 3,012 forum posts and an automated welcome PM that greeted every new member, DJRavine was the driving force behind it all. He also made music under the DJRavine name and ran a freelance web design company through NADAsoft.net.