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Bro, quit making up conclusions to judge me with. At the time there was nothing to do with donation money but upgrade to better hardware so that's what I did. It wasn't until recently that the fuckwits over at Comcast got butthurt over people using Netflix rather than their shitty Xfinity so they put up bandwidth caps, and that's when the problem started. Had I known about this dick move in advance, I would've stuck with the computer I had initially and I would have $700 to spend on bandwidth right now. But how would I had known? I know this machine is overkill for Minecraft. That's why I run 2 servers on it. But there was nothing better to spend the money on. Except candy and hookers of course, but I wouldn't betray my players like that.

$80 for the quadcore VPS. LOL. No wonder the one I had before sucked... that was $10 a month. Frankly I'm not planning to pay anything. Maybe $20 of exceeded bandwidth per month until I run out of donation money. At the rate I'm going this month I'll end up paying more than $50 by the end of the month, but I've already taken drastic measures to slow it down.

This is a temporary emergency measure. After this emergency period is over it will go back to anywhere between 10 and 20 slots. My apologies. :(

I had a VPS for a month or so a long time ago, on a Bukkit server. I would get regular freezes during what I presume were peak hours. Like 5 to 30 seconds of pure CPU freeze. At 10 seconds or longer, when the server came back on everyone would get disconnected. VPS's are shit and I would never get the same level of performance than I do with a dedicated computer with a quadcore processor (inb4 bukkit is singlecore) and 8 gigs of ram. If housing isn't an option at all then all I'm left with is renting a dedicated computer which costs no less than $40 a month. I'm just gonna beg for donations to cover the extra bandwidth. Thanks guys. :)

I've already spent hundreds of donation dollars to build a badass computer for the server so renting a server seems like a waste. I hear people do something called "colocating" where they take their server to a data center and let them host it, and you only pay for the bandwidth. How accessible are these? I can't seem to find the right keywords to google them. I found this one data center and called them but the lady said it would cost over a thousand dollars per month. I'm like, kthxbai. Then I called another one (in my area) and they agreed to call me back but never did. Where do you guys get these datacenters? I doubt anyone in their right mind would pay >$1k for a Minecraft server... Anything that requires calling first to ask for a quote is assumed to be ridiculously expensive.

There's a player in my server that eats up between 1 and 2 megabits per second every time he's around his base. He plays with a friend on the same LAN and their collective bandwidth usage goes up to 4.10Mbps (according to iftop). This isn't a problem as far as band WIDTH because nobody else uses that much and my server still never reaches half my full bandwidth, but now that Comcast implemented data caps, I can't afford to spend 20GB per day on Minecraft, which was the case yesterday according to my DD-WRT logs. I monitored the usage throughout the day and it was always the same IP eating the most bandwidth. I asked both players to tp to spawn at one point and it lowered to 300-500Kbps so I'm pretty sure it's something around their base. I don't want to have to ask them to move away because of this but I have to solve this problem ASAP. I've seen their base personally and it is pretty complex but I can't kick people out every time they get to that level of technological advancement which pretty much is the point of Tekkit. What do you guys recommend I do? Thanks in advance! PS: before anyone suggests it, no, I cannot afford off-site hosting. I host servers at home because it's free. I'm an unemployed college student and I'm not going to get a job to pay for Minecraft.

Changed thread title to the listing format. Totally worth a thread bump. Yeepee.

Here's a handy guide to understand the readings of top and iftop in Linux. I hope someone finds it useful.

Notch spilled his soda all over the authorization (login) servers. It's fixed now, seeing how there's prople in my server. This isn't the first nor the last time this has happened or will happen.

Some KGB guys came into my house today and took the server from me because it's too awesome... I thought this event was important enough for a thread bump. http://scandic.us/tekkit

Bdcraft.net? Sphax PureBDCraft, huh? I knew it seemed familiar! Thanks bro. XD

...there's a map? Oh fuck you're right. /me feels dumb. But still, triangulators are pretty useful and someone should hero up and fix it.

They've been claiming to be working on the mod API all the way since beta 1.8, bro. It probably won't come out with 1.4. XD

I really want to start using this amazing feature of WRCBE. Right now whenever someone logs out with a set triangulator in their inventory the whole server crashes. I'm not gonna bother posting a bug report because I've done so twice and everyone should know this by now. Is there any kind of fix or patch? I've had to disable triangulators (plus trackers and sniffers which are useless without the triangulator) but like I said, it's something I would love to play with.

Y u no machines anywhere? Also what's that texture pack?

There won't be a new version of Tekkit. Minecraft just got updated to 1.3.2 but a lot of the authors of the Tekkit mods won't bother updating because apparently 1.4 is right around the corner. Then when 1.4 does come out, there will only be a couple months before the end of the world (Dec. 21st) and I doubt the devs will bother spending their last few days of life programming in a dark room.

It was meant to be funny. You're so mean. I got so depressed when I read your post 2 months ago that I left the forum for like a week... that's why I didn't reply until that guy necroposted and brought the thread back into my alerts thing. I'm not garbage. Why would you say something like that to me? That hurt my feelings so much. I cried. Btw, what's a good proxy server to use? I want to test my server's network lag but I don't have access to a computer outside my LAN and every 'free' proxy server out there is so slow it disconnects me after 10-20 seconds of logging in.

OMG THANK GOD I THOUGHT FREAKACHU WAS GONNA DO THOSE SCARY FREAKY THINGS TO ME AGAIN D= I don't even have an Xbox. How the hell do you play Minecraft with a controller? I tried that Xpadder program but it did not work... at all. It took like 2 minutes to chop down a small tree.

Damn, you're right. LOL. I hadn't realized it has been that long already... Wait, if there's no VM then how dafuq is there a Minecraft for Xbox? Did they recode it in C++ or something? They should do that with vanilla. And then add a mod API in Lua. (Btw... that last edit bit wasn't for me, right?)

Are you serious? Xbox 360 can't handle vanilla Minecraft? Wow... I haven't looked at the specs but I would imagine one of the top 2 consoles for demanding games to be a bit more powerful than that... o_O

Computercraft uses a different name for each turtle unless you change a config option...

You're doing something wrong. Also, don't play Tekkit in singleplayer. Either set up a private server or download Technic. Tekkit is designed and guaranteed for multiplayer use only and there are many known bugs in singleplayer.

The timers are gonna screw yo stuff up. You should set the minimum delay in the RP config to, say, 1 or 2 seconds. Other than that, get a faster processor. <me> Hey guys, I'm gonna disable block breakers on cobble because y'alls multi-floor massive cobble farms are taking up CPU time and the server lags. <foo> NO!!!! <bar> OMG NO!!! <tar> OMG ADMIN PLZ DONT DO IT!!! <fut> I'm leaving this server. * fut has left the game <elmo> OMG NO MY SCRAPBOX DIAMOND FACTORY NOOOOOOOO <bar> IF U DO THIS IM LEAVING 2 <foo> I'M GONNA TELL MY MOM Clear it up with your userbase... yeah right. XD

You mean these forums? Dude, this is like the best moderated forum I've seen in years. I've gotten banned twice and keller'd like 5 times already just for being slightly annoying. Mods are pretty good at their job. :)

Does it matter? What matters is hir soul. =D