After hours of work, the server has been upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter! Since a lot of programs still need to be reinstalled, the server will likely have to reboot often.

Sorry I haven’t posted anything for a while. The heyday of school (and contracting bronchitis… again) has given me no time to put updates on here until now.

I’ve got a license for Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise which will replace the current server operating system. I will try my best to get the system back up when the new copy of Windows is installed.

Over the past several weeks we have gotten a lot of new players. Most are great builders but some are less than desirable characters. As this server mainly gets around via word-of-mouth, if you have any young players (generally 12 or under) I would appreciate it if you don’t let them on this server. I have had to over a dozen kids breaking into people’s houses, using poor language or just being outright irritating.

Today marks the day that I first started running a Minecraft server, starting off like any other server, running the vanilla server program on a home computer, then a few months later I moved it to my dedicated server platform. From then on, I added more software and hardware upgrades, and a complete platform change a couple weeks ago.

It’s rather amazing to see how much of a change has happened, in terms of the server itself, but more importantly how its community has developed, and for that, I’d like to say thanks for making NGminecraft what it is now.

The server will be down while I move the Minecraft files to a dedicated drive.

EDIT: I’ve moved the Minecraft folder to a dedicated hard drive. If previous lag and crash issues were due to crowding of disk I/O, then this should reduce, if not alleviate the problem.

I’ve shut down service while I’m upgrading the server to a whole new platform. The following text will show my current progress.

Stage 1: Backing up server files.

Stage 2: Validating backups then preparing to shut down and remove server from rack.

Stage 3: Moving new server hardware into rackmount case.

Stage 4: Reinstall server into rack and begin Windows install.

Stage 5: Finished upgrade.

I’m currently on vacation, but I’ve picked up some new hardware for the server.

The new server will sport a 2.7 GHz quad-core CPU, 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, and will have a dedicated hard drive for running the Minecraft server (no more lag from multiple programs using the hard drive all at once :3)

It’ll be several days before I return home, so until then I won’t be able to install the new system. (You can’t really install hardware with Remote Desktop )

If you want to play on NGminecraft, DO NOT UPDATE TO 1.2.4 at this time. I’m waiting for the software and plugins to be updated, stay tuned.

EDIT: The update didn’t break the plugins this time You may update to 1.2.4 at this time.