Though some of these are waiting for Tekkit Upgrade Release to 1.3x or 1.4x, I have the following changes and upgrades in mind:
After Tekkit Upgrade:
- Will be doing a world wipe. Moving structures on the new world on request.
- Moving to a Towny plugin environment for land management and to add some teeth to the economy.
Infrastructure Upgrades:
- First week of next month the server will be moved to it's own internet provider. I'll still have physical control of the machine, and I think I can keep the IP the same, but it'll no longer share a connection. This should reduce the network latency issues which are sporadic as is.
Hardware Upgrades:
- Within the next 2-3 months I'll be upgrading the servers processor to a core i5 3.4 GHz Quadcore processor, giving the single core java uses a bit more teeth, and helping improve TPS will utilizing Dynmaps full rendering features.
- Within the next 2-3 months the amount of server RAM will double to 16GB allowing at least 14GB for the Minecraft Server it's self to utilize. Though this isn't a needed upgrade with a lower player base, considering the fact that this server has other functions than simply minecraft, and the relatively cheap price of RAM, it's a no brainder so to speak.
- Within the next 1-2 months, I'll be moving the minecraft files, and OS files to a high performance, but small, Solid State Drive. This should increase chunk load times significantly.