Servers First piece of EU infrastructure upgrade completed (details inside)

Today I did the first piece of the EU infrastructure upgrade. Here is what has happened so far:

• Doubled the capacity of the EU proxies. This is probably the most important part of the upgrade, as it should mean the lag issues at peak time will go away.
• Added four new Wasted servers.
• Redid the EU lobby (thanks to Coleey for all his help today with this) to add the additional Wasted servers and prepare for Gun Game / Shotbow Games servers.
• Added the first set of Shotbow Games servers to the EU lobby. For now, EU will have eight Shotbow Games servers, but that number may grow or shrink based on actual usage.
• Updated the current Wasted #1 and Wasted #2 servers. I was using an older, more expensive server to get you guys a couple servers while I waited on my EU host. So these should run much faster after I do the upgrade.

Next steps:

• Will be adding a set of Gun Game servers. I will start with a few and see how popular they are during peak time.
• Will finally add an EU DBV server. Maybe two. Time will tell (no pun intended).
• Upgrade the current MineZ servers to better hardware. This should help overall performance on the MineZ side, although the MineZ servers seem to be running fine right now.
• Upgrade the EU database. This is the final step and will require network down time. I don't plan to do this until next week during off peak time to minimize impact.

I will update this post as I finish things.

Awesome!

Thank you for your hard work!
Its appreciated!

Thank you for all your hard work, I love you

Its gonna be a lot of fun playing the Shotbow games.

Thanks for doing all of this! When will Krubera have chests and the slow bow? I went there with my friend and nothing was there. We waited for a tip and everything.

It'd be nice to see an EU HCFactions. I would honestly love that.

Yay for EU

Amazing work, glad EU Is getting some love!
I too wish we could get our own HCFactions, doubt that is gonna happen though.

Good job , but we need eu event server too

Next step.... UPGRADE AU (I have never played AU in my life... but I feel sorry for them)

Amazing news :3

AU doesen't have a lobby system and all of the other newfangled shit, so I'm pretty sure their servers are running fairly smoothly.

Highlife, I highly recommend you take down some US servers. I mean... lets say for instants GhostCraft. I mean it's fun and all, but most of the servers are completely empty. Maybe some wasted servers too. I just want to get this out to you because I know shotbow is far from being free. Just listen to this: I want you to go on the US servers and take a look around the shotbow lobby. You'll notice a lot of servers can be empty, so just hear me through. Thanks for reading in advanced.

This is why we haven't upgraded AU. To support a proxy system it requires a big infrastructure commitment. While I'd love to do it, AU is three times the cost per server compared to a US or EU server. The only reason EU hurts so bad is because I am hit by the exchange rate (so an EU server may be priced the same in pounds, but after exchange rate and exchange fee ends up being 1.5x more expensive).

That being said, if a bunch of AU players got together and collectively made a huge show of support, I'd be willing to look into it.

That day will come. Oh it will.

so your saying if a au player like myself can get a like of ign or something that all we want really is a 2nd minez public server (re perpuse the private settlement server since it is empty 24/7) say i get 200 names of au players and send it too you. would that show support for our au buddys?

Oh yes it will. It will.

Mini-Proxy - Only 1 or 2 instances. (the lobby thing)

the standby system for the EU shotbow games servers is not working
EDIT: fixed after proxy reboot