Jmckeen's thoughts about the server

Post 1: August 3, 2013
well.... *thinks*

I have noticed not many people have been going on the server. I'm sure part of it is that people are busy and on vacation etc etc... but I also think it's partilly due to the massive server outage for like 2 weeks at the start of the summer, and people have just not cared to check in =P. Let me explain what that outage was about. It seems that people belived it was because 1.6 came out. However it actually started when 1.6 had not been released. The reason behind this was mostly due to neglectance on my part (sorry D=). During the school year I was, well, busy with school. This gave me limited time to check in on the server/maintain it properly. Many of the plugins were out of date and the reason the server went down was that they just became very unstable. One evening towards the end of the school year I was trying to change permissions and nothing would work properly and the server was on the verge of just crashing. The server shut down about 10 minutes after this discovery, however I was 1) kinda to busy to fix it and probably more important 2) was too lazy to do it. Once the summer started I just kinda went on a server hiatus and finally after Andy had been complaining too much I decided to try to fix the server. By this time 1.6 had come out and I (at least tried to) did a massive update of the plugins and removed some old ones, including updated bukkit essentials, muliverse, creativegates, among others. At this point the server went up on 1.6.1 and things were all good... except like two days after 1.6.1 came out 1.6.2 was also released (WHY MOJANG!!!) completly breaking creativegates. The server went on for a couple more weeks on 1.6.1 until that plugin could be updated, and some other plugins also had to be updated for 1.6.2 and now we have gotten to this current point. (I should mention that within the first half hour of updating to 1.6.2 like 3 people came on, which was an improvment over NONE) I guess you could all blame me and I should blame myself for such a quet summer, and I apoligize to all who may be reading this. I hope the server will become buisier again once school starts.

Josh (aka Jmckeen)