VIP Renewals & Introducing VIP Island

VIP renewal donations open tomorrow, this gives existing VIPs the chance to renew early and guarantee they can keep their VIP status & region for another 3 months.

If you are entitled to a discounted VIP donation amount, as explained here...

http://diggyminecraft.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/changes-to-vip-system.html

...then your adjusted donation link will be sent to the e-mail address used for your previous donation tomorrow, the discounted donation amounts apply until general donations open on the 18th July.

If you do not renew your VIP status before all 12 VIP slots have been filled then you will loose your VIP status and region so please make sure you donate on time if you wish to continue being a VIP! However existing VIPs that choose not to renew but have time remaining under the old VIP donation scheme will keep their status and region until their original 3 month period expires!

Introducing VIP Island...

The recent poll has convinced us that for the time being we should remain a Tekkit Classic server, but as I'm sure you all know maps have a habit of corrupting after prolonged periods of heavy use so chances are that some point we'll need to reset the map, VIP Island gives VIP players the chance to put some of their in game wealth into safe keeping 'just in case'!

The island is in it's own little 100x100 world and consists of 12 chalet apartments, one of which will be assigned to each of this quarters VIPs, you will not have build permission but it will be locked for you when you are assigned a chalet number.

 

Each chalet contains 2 large chests (108 slots in total), an RM furnace (can be used as an additional 27 slots) and an Automatic Crafting Table (can be used as an additional 9 slots), which gives you up to 144  storage slots. A bed is also included so you can easily set a home there.

VIP Island also has mob spawning and weather turned off for your convenience and the world is only accessible to VIPs, Helpers, Moderators & Admins minimizing the risk of griefing or theft attempts. Other facilities may be added to the island in future!

VIP donations for players who are not already VIPs will open on July 18th

June RollerCoaster Challenge - Results!

Votes have been cast and the results are in, thanks to redkid1, dragontamer6463, creed2324 & HeroicNinja01 for being the additional judges!

1st Place: Tatankore - Athkores Revenge
2nd Place: DigginChickin - MushCoaster

3rd Place was both the remaining entries with identical points...

xPhantomY2Kx & tiffaria - Dimension Rift
yuolyuol - Unknown Coaster

 Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone that entered, we'll be arranging the prizes for 1st & 2nd place asap!

Here's some screenshots of the winning entries...

Tatankore - Athkores Revenge (Voted: 1st Place, Most Unique Build & Most Impressive Feature):

DigginChickin - MushCoaster (Voted: 2nd Place, Best Name & Most Interesting Use Of Materials):

Last Chance To Enter RollerCoaster Challenge

Don't forget that tomorrow is your last chance to enter the delayed June RollerCoaster Challenge, entries must be received by midnight (UK time) on Friday!

Details of how to enter can be found here...

http://tinyurl.com/junecoaster

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.