Server Migration

[Zedwick]

Beginning Monday the 30th of September, Zedwork will begin migrating its various Minecraft servers and other systems to new hardware. There will be some periods of downtime for some or all of the Minecraft servers as I moved individual systems across; these will be announced here as I schedule them.

The new hardware will provide a slight performance improvement, but will primarily provide extra breathing room in the form of increased storage space* and available memory (RAM). There has been a considerable maintenance cost for me in trying to ensure available disk space; the larger capacity drive of the new server will hopefully alleviate this source of stress to allow me to focus on other areas.

* The extra available storage space will not mean we will expand LVS/Zz's world borders, as I need to plan for the longevity of our worlds.

[Zedwick]

After numerous delays, this process is now fully underway.

Within the hour you will all be connecting via the connection server on the new hardware, which will then connect you to the Minecraft servers currently running on the old hardware. This is the just first step, but an important one to enable me to begin migrating all the other services across.

Vote announcements may not appear in the chat, I will resolve this soon.

[Zedwick]

Step 1 complete! The connection server and all Zestygames are now running and accessible on the new hardware.

Whilst the new server is mostly empty, lets have some fun with Zestygames!

BridgeWars, GerroffMahBeard, Spleef, Cuberunner, Words With Zedings, PocketBuildOff and DartZ are all available for free hosting from now through to the 9th of December.

For Zesty Subscribers, you all now have access to host AdvancementHunters, PocketUHC and DungeonDash until the 9th of December.

Happy Server Migration! ^_^

[Zedwick]

Zz will be going down shortly to migrate to the new hardware. I am hopeful this won't take too long, and we should be back up before you know it ^_^

[Zedwick]

Zz is back up and working perfectly on the new and improved hardware ^_^

Total file size: 50GB
Total downtime: ~7 minutes.

[Zedwick]

LVS has been migrated to the new hardware a as of this afternoon.

Necessary security scripts and !commands are online on LVS. Zz's !commands will return a little later today.
Vote announcements will also return to both servers a little later, too.

There will be one more period of downtime which will affect all of Zedwork simultaneously, as I need to migrate the backend database which everything is hooked into. Unfortunately this will likely need to occur over the weekend, but I will again try to minimise the downtime as much as possible.

[Zedwick]

Zedwork will go down for maintenance at 1:20 PM. It will remain down for 5-10 minutes, approximately.

[Zedwick]

Hit an issue exposing LVS to the internet. LVS is currently accessible by connecting to Zurvival first, then using /leave to enter the lobby. I'm working on getting this issue resolved.

[Zedwick]

LVS is now back online at its usual address!

[Zedwick]

All Zedwork servers will go offline shortly so I can migrate the database backend. Estimated downtime will be 2 hours.

Thank you for your patience, and I hope you all find something to entertain yourselves in this dark time.