Notice: VotingPlugin Temporarily Disabled!

Notice: VotingPlugin Temporarily Disabled!

Valley was down earlier today because it was crashing while starting up. We believe the cause was the plug-in “VotingPlugin”. After removing the plug-in, the server appears to be running like normal.

Notice: Valley is unable to process votes right now because the plug-in is disabled!

We are looking into having a custom plug-in written to replace the unstable plugin and do not currently plan to reinstall the unstable plug-in.

While we look for a custom plug-in to be written, we will reinstall an older version of VotingPlugin that did not give us any troubles.

Unexpected Issues March 8th

Unexpected Issues March 8th

All of the Minecraft server instances crashed around 6:30AM UTC on March 8th. We are still looking into the logs that were generated to determine possible causes, but so far we know that the crash was caused by some sort of issue related to handling a specific user’s vehicle (possibly a minecart, boat, or MyPet) and it was the same user that went on each server and crashed each server immediately after joining.

The very first step we took in resolving this issue was banning that player. Then, while trying to extract the logs from the crash, we somehow managed to cause a second crash, likely related to the method we used to transfer the 5.1GB log files.

All of the servers are back online now and appear to be operating like normal. We will attempt to determine the exact cause of the initial crash and implement a solution for it, but due to the nature of the situation, we will not be publishing any further developments on the situation.

Network Issues March 6th

Network Issues March 6th

UPDATE 3: They’ve replaced the damaged fiber and are in the process of rolling all of the connections over to the new link.

UPDATE 2: They’ve determined it is an issue with the fiber connection from Washington to Beauharnois (the datacenter location) so it only affects US players.

UPDATE: Our host has confirmed that the cluster of servers that our hardware is located within is currently having some network issues. They are already working on resolving it. There is no action needed by us – we just need to wait.

We are aware that there are some network issues involving our servers at the moment. All three of our physical machines appear to be very slow to respond and occasionally unable to send outgoing packets. As we have not changed any configurations recently, and things were running fine earlier this week, we believe the issue is on our hosts end NOT on our end.

At this time we are investigating the issue but believe that this will only be a matter of waiting for our host to resolve the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Servers Are Back Online!

Servers Are Back Online!

The servers are now back online. Things appear to be working correctly, but, again, we will continue to monitor them throughout the next week to make sure there are no issues.

Remember: There may some unexpected bugs and reboots!

Shutting Down Servers in 15 Minutes

Shutting Down Servers in 15 Minutes

We are finally ready to try and transfer everything to our new hardware. I am shutting down the servers in 15 minutes to begin the process. Please note: the servers will be offline for several hours during this process!

Also, players should not notice any difference while using the server. From a client-perspective, everything still works the same. This new hardware changes a lot of things on the backend that will make things very different for administrators, but players will not notice anything different.

Server Maintenance Tomorrow

Server Maintenance Tomorrow

Since the i9 9900K server did NOT work out, I decided to buy three new computers and configure our network to work by connecting them all together instead of running everything on a single computer. This requires re-configuring a LOT of stuff! I believe the new computers are ready-enough for us to move the Minecraft servers onto them, so I will be doing that tomorrow (March 1st).

You should expect some bugs and reboots during the first week or so on the new hardware! This is a very complicated setup and, while I’ve done my best to test everything, I am only one person. Once we get 200 people online – things might start to break that we didn’t catch at first.

I will make an announcement 15 minutes before I shut down the servers to begin transferring them to the new hardware. Keep an eye out for it tomorrow (March 1st)!

Servers Back On Old Hardware (Temporarily?)

Servers Back On Old Hardware (Temporarily?)

The new hardware went completely offline shortly after I finished setting everything up last night. Unfortunately, I’ve just woken up now to discover this issue. I cannot access the hardware at all and I have no idea why it went offline.

Unfortunately, I do not have time right now to look into this issue further and I’m pretty sure the only “solution” would be to let the new host’s tech support have root access to the server and do various reboots, which would mean downtime anyway, SOOOOO I’ve restarted all of the servers on the old hardware!

Anything that was done while the servers were up for a brief period last night will be gone, but that’s only about an hour of data – not worth taking another 8 to move over.

I’ll look into this further later today, for now, enjoy everything like we never tried to move in the first place.

Shutting Down for Maintenance in 15 minutes

Shutting Down for Maintenance in 15 minutes

We will be shutting down in 15 minutes to attempt to move to the new hardware. Expect the server to be down for SEVERAL hours. Last time we did this, it took 8 hours…

If things go smoothly, everything will be running on the new hardware tonight. If things don’t go smoothly, we will just start up the old hardware again and try again tomorrow. I will make an announcement once we are done to let you know how it went.

Thanks!

Expect Downtime Tomorrow (Feb 21st)

Expect Downtime Tomorrow (Feb 21st)

Our new hardware is finally ready and I will begin configuring it tomorrow around 3:00PM CST. I will begin by doing whatever I can without shutting down the servers, but at some point, in order to move all the world and player data over, I will need to shut down everything. Once I do, they will be down for several hours!

I will give some sort of warning before shutting them down. It will likely be around a 15 minute warning so please watch carefully for it if you play after 3PM CST tomorrow.

Thanks!