Move Complete!

The move is complete, everything is working fine and you can now connect using the new IP.

Depending on your geographical location it may be up to 24 hours before you can connect using tekkit.diggyminecraft.co.uk because of the time it takes internet name servers to syncronise.

You can find the new IP on the Server Info page!

It took much longer than planned but hey when do big technical changes ever go perfectly smoothly, we are now hooked up to 10 GBps  internet connection and running on brand new top of the line server hardware so it was definitely worth the wait!

UPDATE: 16:30 - 

There has been one side effect of the move... the data I use to work out how long players have been on the server has been reset, so it's showing all players that are New Builder rank as having played for 1 day, to keep things as fair as possible we'll reduce the promotion time from 1-2 weeks to 1 week max for the next week.

Down For Move / IP Change

The server is now down for the move and IP change, this should take 1-2 hours and I'll post updates here as things progress!

UPDATE: 10:30 - The server has been fully backed up by both me and the hosting company and the move will be taking place very shortly.

UPDATE: 10:45 - Just received a notification that the new server is setup and our data is being moved over to it now!

UPDATE: 11:30 - It seems they underestimated the size of our map, the move is taking longer than than expected, our main world consists of 4GB of data made up of over 15000 files!

UPDATE: 12:00 - Something has come up and I need to go out for about an hour, hopefully by the time I get back the move will have been completed, sorry for the delay!

UPDATE: 13:30 - I'm back, just going to check if everything has been moved ok.

UPDATE: 13:45 - The move is complete, just making sure everything is as it should be.

UPDATE: 13:55 - I'm having an issue with the management interface, hopefully this won't take too long to get sorted out.

UPDATE: 14:10 - All fixed, we'll be reopening in 10-15 minutes!

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