Upcoming Changes To Our Hosting

As some of you already know our hosting company is in the process of migrating from  a data centre in Cheltenham to one in London, amongst other benefits the move increases network bandwidth from 2 GBps to 10 GBps  (GBps = gigabytes per second).

Given the recent DDOS attacks against a server sharing our rack in Cheltenham that caused us significant network lag I have requested that our server is moved to London early, this will however mean that...

1) The server will be down for a short period for the data to be be transferred, probably around 1-2 hours.

2) We will be assigned a new IP address.

They have advised me that we can have a default (25565) port, making the address you use to connect a lot shorter and meaning that shortly after the move you'll be able to just use...

tekkit.diggyminecraft.co.uk 

...to connect, so you won't need to remember the new IP at all!

The new IP assignment is automated so I will not know the new IP in advance.

I'll post updates on here as and when needed so please make sure you bookmark this page!

This will take place on Tuesday (2nd July) at or shortly after 10 am UK time.

June Challenge - RollerCoasters

This will not be judged today afterall due to a low number of entries.

We know more coasters were built but for one reason or another not entered in time so we hope to judge this in the near future!

UPDATE: 17:00 - Judging will now take place on Saturday (6th July) at around 2-3 pm.

New Helpers

Tatankore is now a full helper and BobKiller52 is now a probationary Helper!

This brings our total number of helpers up to 6:

Full Helpers:

freaksdesign
zinatawehowe
blad2003
xPhantomY2kx
Tatankore

Probationary Helpers:

BobKiller52

June Challenge - RollerCoasters

Don't forget this is being judged this Sunday!

So you have until Midnight (UK time) on Saturday to submit your entry.

See here for full details of how to enter etc... http://tinyurl.com/junecoaster

Enderchest Goodies!

Just for fun I've placed some goodies, including some HV Solar Arrays and Red Matter in a randomly coloured enderchest, the first person to figure out the the combination (there are 4096 possibilities) can keep the contents!

I will keep checking the chest and post updates as well as clues!

Clue: 20th June - No white! (3375 possibilities remaining)

Clue: 21st June - No yellow! (2744 possibilities remaining)

Clue: 22nd June - No magenta! (2197 possibilities remaining)

Clue: 23rd June - No brown! (1728 possibilities remaining)

Clue: 24th June - No light gray! (1331 possibilities remaining)

As of... 22:00, 24th June ...the items have been found! Congratulations freaksdesign! 

The code was... Orange - Pink - Cyan

Somehow no-one noticed that I kept changing the spleef arena floor to these colours... 

New Way Of Connecting To The Server

You can now connect to the server using:

tekkit.diggyminecraft.co.uk:25965

instead of using the IP address, if you want to!