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Eric — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:42:28 +0000

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More hardware on the way.

Eric — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:55:17 +0000

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.

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Beta is going down for Kernel hacking tonight at 12am EST (GMT-5)

Eric — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:40:47 +0000

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 own, but so you dont loose that work, please do frequent manual saves.

Users on beta will need to restart their server after the down time is complete. This post will be updated with the results. With any luck Beta will be able to support 1000 FPS source servers!

UPDATE: We were unable to get a hacked kernel to boot! We’ll be trying again another time… Thank you for understanding!

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Minecraft update released. Multiplayer damage should work now.

Eric — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:27:50 +0000

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.

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1668140652/smp-health-update-is-out

If you have Hey0, you’ll have to wait for your version – it’s a different JAR file and the Hey0 guy will have to compile and release one.

P.S. I died when logging in the first time from bizarre fall damage… expect that!

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Natural Selection 2: We have our eye on you!

Eric — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:13:48 +0000

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 our hosting rock solid… as good as the server software will allow us to be!

If you want to learn more about Natural Selection 2, its currently in closed beta (10,000 slots left!) and you can pre-purchase to get instant access. Learn more here: http://www.naturalselection2.com/

We’ll let you know when the Natural Selection 2 Beta game servers come online!

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West Coast Game Server Hosting Available!

Eric — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:53:04 +0000

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 have a non-default port, this is your chance to migrate into a default one. By moving over to the new West Coast location, you may be the first to host on your new IPs and thus get a default port!

Enjoy!

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HGSPanel now allows users to move their servers to different locations on demand!

Eric — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:52:31 +0000

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 in the morning but on the West Coast at night? Well now you can.

All you have to do is log in to your HGSPanel account at http://hgspanel.hostedgameservers.com and stop the server you want to move (remember to save first if needed!). After that, you will see a ‘Migrate Server to New Location’ button in the bottom right corner of the game’s display. Nail that baby and it will ask you which region you want to go to. After you select the region you will be asked to confirm the new IP and Port of your server and it will be queued into the install bot.

Your files and settings will be maintained and the whole thing will basically be transplanted to new hosting under a different ip/port. Your web hosting and voice server will get moved, too. This means it may take a couple hours for your web hosting’s DNS to clear out and work again – but thats expected with any sudden switch in hosting! DNS Cache causes that.

The only caution I must advise is that once you move away from your old ip/port, there is no guarantee that you will ever get it back. If someone else buys a box and slots in where you used to be, we can’t take it back! Only migrate if you are willing to lose your ip/port forever.

So yeah, thats our new feature… you can now move your servers around to any location with available capacity at any time! Enjoy!

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SOLVED: Minecraft server crashing a lot? Java exception errors? EOF and other nonsense? Update coming in 5 days says notch.

Eric — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:50:31 +0000

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 then, you can try re-making a world or reinstalling… but it looks like we have a buggy SMP for now.

Sorry dudes…

Sample error:
EOFException minecraft

UPDATE: Notch released a small update that may or may not have fixes in it. Either way, it has been installed and servers are now flagged for upgrading. Go get it! Cross your fingers and remember to back up your world data in the hgsbackup folder before your upgrade/reinstall.

UPDATE 2: This was part of our epic failure: http://status.hostedgameservers.com/2010/oh-man-we-messed-up-big-with-minecraft

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Game Server Location Switching is Coming This Weekend!

Eric — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:23:38 +0000

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 coast at night and on the west coast in the morning! All of your game settings are transferred over automatically.

Once you buy a server and get into the Hosted Game Servers network, you can move regions whenever you like!

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Dallas box is here!

andrew — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:13:11 +0000

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.

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