The server has been down for a few minutes now as part of the scheduled maintenance by our hosting company, hopefully we will be back and running within the next twenty minutes or so. I have turned the whitelist on and stopped the server as it came up and went down a couple of times and I don't want to risk world corruption.
I'll keep you posted!
UPDATE: 17:30 - Upgrades are taking longer than expected, might take another 20 minutes.
UPDATE: 17:55 - Server back up! Looks like the upgrades are complete :)
UPDATE: 18:55 - Server back down :( No news on how long for yet.
UPDATE: 19:30 - Still waiting to here from the hosting company.
UPDATE: 20:15 - Still waiting to here from the hosting company.
UPDATE: 21:00 - Still waiting to here from the hosting company.
UPDATE: 21:40 - Server is now essentially back up but whitelisted while I check things.
UPDATE: 22:00 - Daily backup performed & seems stable, whitelist removed!
Well that was a pain, everything seems ok now, all I know is that all the MineCraft servers they host (thousands) went down so it was a network wide issue. They've been coming back online one rack at a time and are mostly back up but it will be an hour or two before everything is fully up and running, hopefully their will be no further downtime during that time.
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Saturday, 9 March 2013
Player Market Now Open!
Over the last week many users have requested some form of player market and so I decided to make building one a priority, it's taken a couple of days to build and test but I'm pleased to announce that the player market is now open!
Key market information:
The market is located outside spawn, opposite the DiggyStore.
The market consists of 18 rentable stalls.
Stall rentals and equipment are provided free of charge.
Each stall consists 3 trade-o-mats linked to personal safes and a sign to be placed above them.
Any player of 'Member' rank or above may request rental of a market stall.
Stall renters are responsible for ensuring they do not trade in banned or restricted items
Stalls will be reclaimed if the renting player does not log in to the server for 7 days.
Stalls will also be reclaimed if a renter is found to have deliberately tricked another player into an unfair trade.
If you want to rent a stall but no admin or mod is online then please send an e-mail to admin@diggyminecraft.co.uk, including your username and a proffered stall number (if applicable).
I think that covers everything, enjoy!
Key market information:
The market is located outside spawn, opposite the DiggyStore.
The market consists of 18 rentable stalls.
Stall rentals and equipment are provided free of charge.
Each stall consists 3 trade-o-mats linked to personal safes and a sign to be placed above them.
Any player of 'Member' rank or above may request rental of a market stall.
Stall renters are responsible for ensuring they do not trade in banned or restricted items
Stalls will be reclaimed if the renting player does not log in to the server for 7 days.
Stalls will also be reclaimed if a renter is found to have deliberately tricked another player into an unfair trade.
If you want to rent a stall but no admin or mod is online then please send an e-mail to admin@diggyminecraft.co.uk, including your username and a proffered stall number (if applicable).
I think that covers everything, enjoy!
Friday, 8 March 2013
Scheduled network maintenance
I just received this notification from our hosting company regarding the network upgrades and some scheduled maintenance taking place tomorrow:
Hello everyone,
Just a quick note to let you all know that starting at around 4:30PM tomorrow (09/03/2013) we will be conducting some network maintenance so you may experience downtime of up to 5 minutes and the maintenance should be complete by 5:30PM.
During the maintenance period tomorrow we will be doing the following:-
+ Installing new 48 port gigabit switches into all 3 of our racks
+ Installing another uplink to all 3 racks to double our uplink capacity from 1Gbps to 2Gbps for each rack
+ Configuring some new security settings to aid stability in the occurrence of a denial of service attack
After all these upgrades are complete we should have a much more stable network with a lot less downtime because of disruptions from DoS / DDoS attacks.
We would just like to thank each and every one of you for staying patient whilst we've been planning and rolling out these upgrades.
Kind Regards,
Nitrous Networks Ltd.
Hello everyone,
Just a quick note to let you all know that starting at around 4:30PM tomorrow (09/03/2013) we will be conducting some network maintenance so you may experience downtime of up to 5 minutes and the maintenance should be complete by 5:30PM.
During the maintenance period tomorrow we will be doing the following:-
+ Installing new 48 port gigabit switches into all 3 of our racks
+ Installing another uplink to all 3 racks to double our uplink capacity from 1Gbps to 2Gbps for each rack
+ Configuring some new security settings to aid stability in the occurrence of a denial of service attack
After all these upgrades are complete we should have a much more stable network with a lot less downtime because of disruptions from DoS / DDoS attacks.
We would just like to thank each and every one of you for staying patient whilst we've been planning and rolling out these upgrades.
Kind Regards,
Nitrous Networks Ltd.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Network Upgrades
Our hosting company is carrying out further network upgrades over the next couple of days so we may experience random disconnects and short drop-outs during this time, please bear with us, it will be worth it in the long-run as the upgrades are aimed at greater stability, resilience and preventing DDoS attacks.
I'll post an update once the work is complete.
Thanks!
I'll post an update once the work is complete.
Thanks!
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Do Not Craft Iron Shovels
Unfortunately the server has developed the 'iron shovel gzip' bug that plagues many Tekkit servers, what this means is that if you craft or pick up an iron shovel your player data will become corrupt, you will be instantly disconnected with a 'gzip' error and unable to reconnect.
Once you have this issue the only way for you to get back on the server is for your player data to be deleted, this means you will also loose any items in your inventory at the time.
If this happens to you and you are unable to get a message to an Admin or Moderator in game via another player then please e-mail us at admin@diggyminecraft.co.uk so we can get you back in the game asap.
There is currently no official or unofficial fix for this bug, plus the item cannot be removed from the game or banned in a way that prevents this issue as even attempting to craft an iron shovel causes the problem whether the crafting is completed successfully or not.
I will be investigating further and hopefully a fix or workaround will be found, until then please remember not to attempt to craft this item.
Once you have this issue the only way for you to get back on the server is for your player data to be deleted, this means you will also loose any items in your inventory at the time.
If this happens to you and you are unable to get a message to an Admin or Moderator in game via another player then please e-mail us at admin@diggyminecraft.co.uk so we can get you back in the game asap.
There is currently no official or unofficial fix for this bug, plus the item cannot be removed from the game or banned in a way that prevents this issue as even attempting to craft an iron shovel causes the problem whether the crafting is completed successfully or not.
I will be investigating further and hopefully a fix or workaround will be found, until then please remember not to attempt to craft this item.
Philosophers Stone
Having received several polite requests from regular players to reconsider our policy regarding the Philosophers Stone and after some consideration and testing we have decided to give all players the ability to craft this item, however no rank will have the ability to hold it or use the right click functionality due to it's ability to be used for serious griefing.
Please note that because you cannot hold it you may have difficulty picking it up when dropped if you have empty slots in your hotbar.
Enjoy!
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