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Gamma takes one in the face and goes down like a champ
Gamma has been floating a long just fine until the recent Minecraft updates. After those updates filled out, our memory use increased quite a bit… Gamma ended up going over the limit and fell on its face. You can move off of Gamma. We have space for you in that region ready to go. All [...]
Second kernel build attempt for beta tomorrow night.
At 12am tomorrow (EST GMT-5) we’re going to attempt to switch to our custom kernel build on beta again. This will result in another outage, probably around 30 minutes or so! We’re sorry in advance. Make sure to save your files and re-start your server after the reboot. We estimate about 30 minutes down time [...]
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 [...]
Well, now we know why Omega was down. Ass clown DoSing.
Yeah, so the Omega outages were from two IPs DoSing it during the night. Way to try and ruin Christmas. JESUS WAS BORN. DOES THIS MEAN NOTHING TO YOU? Anyway, we blocked the IPs and we’ll keep on truckkin’.Yeaaaa hawwww…. 76.111.145.120 abuse@comcast.net 70.26.26.133 abuse@bellnexxia.net IPs have been complained about formally to their corresponding abuse contacts. [...]
Merry Christmas. Omega is down.
Yeah… Omega has some kind of issue. It went down again tonight… Merry Christmas. Blimey. Restart your servers on Omega dudes. Share on Facebook
Beta going down for memory upgrade
Beta was provisioned with four gigs of memory, which is not enough. We’re having the box fixed up and moved to eight gigs but that means they will be powering off the box in a moment. We’re sorry, but we have to get the memory in there. EDIT: Maintenance Completed! Share on Facebook
Gamma Poops
Gamma went down. Restart your servers. What the hell is up today?! Share on Facebook
Omega rolls over :-(
Omega hath died. No, this does not mean that the second coming of Jesus has ended. This just means you’re going to have to restart your servers on Omega. We’re not entirely sure what happened yet, but whatever it was, the NIC wouldn’t even ping. It was stone dead. A quick power cycle on the [...]
Oh man, we messed up big with Minecraft.
So we had a ton of people complaining about Minecraft crashes. We were like: yeah, that shit is alpha! We found forum posts with similar crashes and went through everything we could think of for days. Today though, when I was watching the installbot logs and playing Minecraft… I saw a server install and mine [...]
HostedGameServers.com was attacked… shortly after calling out other privders’ hosting BS.
A great book I read recently, Rework by 37 signals says that unless you piss someone off from time to time, you’re not being aggressive enough. It looks like we are in fact aggressive enough. Yesterday someone managed to exploit or otherwise cause extreme load to Omega around mid day. We have estated a virtual [...]