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owl130y,

If people are looking for a server to play on, may i suggest you read this?

http://www.efragz.co.uk/jfusionforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7547

31 days ago

owl130y,

Fair enough, now i have my PC almost all of my gaming is on Minecraft now that it doesnt lag every 10steps i take. I would be well up for donating pennies towards keeping it going, its a cool little virtual home for eFraggerz

110 days ago

aavak,

While I hosted the Minecraft server on Multiplay the cost was a bit higher than that.

For starters, when Minecraft was popular, we had more than 10 people playing at a time, so I had to host a 20 man server. However, at the time the policy was that a 20 man server required an extra gig of ram to run, so I had to increase the ram to 2 gigs which brought the cost to 34 pounds a month in total.

Regardless of the ram increase, due to the fact Multiplay hosts so many Minecraft servers on the same blade, rubber-banding and general lag spikes would make the game drastically less enjoyable at times :(

That said, they have very good mod support and by and large it was quite easy to get things set up. However, as it's not a VPN, I didn't have direct access to the server through a shell. Instead I had to go through their server interface, which meant I could only access files that they had deemed necessary; so some of the functionality of most mods was lost, as I simply couldn't check log-files or directly interact with the configuration files as necessary.

Still, for the 5 or so months I was hosting the server, we had a blast. But towards the end, the lag had driven most people away. I could have downgraded, but it was still an expense that was growing difficult to justify with only 3 or 4 people playing the game through the month.

I think it's a great idea to hook the map up at LAN's though :)

111 days ago

Briffy,

The server is always backed up so no worries there.

To be fair, a Minecraft server isn't too expensive to run. It's about £7.50/mo for a 10 man server through Multiplay. That's only 75p/mo if the people using it split the cost.

Shouldn't be too difficult for someone to pick it up if they want to.

111 days ago

[MonkeY],

While it was great that you hosted the Minecraft server for so long it was a bit unrealistic to think it would last forever with it being so expensive to run.

Would you be able to back up the world and the server directory in case we can ever find a home for it? Maybe we could break it out at the LAN now and again and go wild.

111 days ago

Briffy,

Not sure. At the moment, it doesn't look like the server will even be around for much longer. Can't afford the VPS costs due to some unforeseen circumstances so I'll have to have a discussion and see what's going to happen with it at some point.

At the moment though, the VPS will be getting turned off sometime before the end of February.

111 days ago

owl130y,

Hey Rhys, Will the server be updated for 1.1?

115 days ago

chiefspoony,

Thank you briffy, went on server last night to see how my buildings have faired, my area pretty unscaved by endermen and nobody let creepers in my house and blew it up. Yay

150 days ago

[MonkeY],

Ok, as long as you're on the case I'll stop pestering.

164 days ago

Briffy,

Still waiting for a recommended build for CraftBukkit. I'm not taking it live until that gets released. Too much of a headache using a non-recommended build last time.

164 days ago

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