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More hardware on the way.
We have another box coming to the West Coast, echo.hostedgameservers.com. When this box is up, you can expect to have a nice clean server to migrate into! This will also open up migrations to the West Coast. More to come on this box when we get and configure it. Share on Facebook
Beta is going down for Kernel hacking tonight at 12am EST (GMT-5)
We’re going to bring beta down and do some kernel hacking tonight at 12am EST (GMT-5). This means your Minecraft servers will be halted and its possible you’ll have data loss. Make sure you do a save-all on your servers tonight before they are brought down. Minecraft saves every 15 minutes or so on its [...]
Minecraft update released. Multiplayer damage should work now.
Notch has released the promised update for Minecraft this week. Damage in multiplayer should work now for both players and monsters. Fall damage should work, too. This should be fixing the block lag that started with the last patch, too. Hopefully no new bugs were introduced. Login to HGSPanel and update your servers to get [...]
Natural Selection 2: We have our eye on you!
We’re going to host Natural Selection 2. It’s like in the cards for us and stuff. Did I mention that our servers are going to come with free voice and web hosting? Oh, well they will. We know that Natural Selection 2 game servers are a little laggy but we’ll do the best to make [...]
West Coast Game Server Hosting Available!
We have opened our West Coast hosting out of Los Angeles as of last night! This means that you can migrate your existing servers to the West Coast no problem. We will also make it easy to select which location you want to host at right when you order on the site. Also, if you [...]
HGSPanel now allows users to move their servers to different locations on demand!
Most companies make you pick a location right when you buy your server – then you’re there… forever. We thought: wouldn’t it be cool if users could actually move their servers to any of our locations… whenever they wanted? What if users could actually choose that they wanted a server hosted on the East Coast [...]
SOLVED: Minecraft server crashing a lot? Java exception errors? EOF and other nonsense? Update coming in 5 days says notch.
We’ve been getting an ass load of customers with random and strange server crashes. Apparently SMP is living up to its alpha status and crashes a lot. Check out this thread for more information: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1116264&start=3880 As soon as a fix comes out, we’ll install it and make an update available in the panel – until [...]
Game Server Location Switching is Coming This Weekend!
Starting this weekend, all Hosted Game Servers customers will be able to relocate their servers to other regions. When you stop your server you will find a new ‘relocate server’ button after the feature is rolled out. I expect to have it in tomorrow! This means that you can have a server on the east [...]
Dallas box is here!
If you want to transfer your server over to central, send in a support request. As of right now the east box are closed to any further orders. To test your ping, open up command prompt and do a tracert zeta.hostedgameservers.com. From the far east coast it gets about 50-80ms. Share on Facebook