Terraria is up and running!

The Terraria migration has finished, and the server is up at the new address listed on the right side of the screen here. Go play!

Terraria Migration Underway

The Minecraft server migration went off without a hitch, and we have begun the migration of the Terraria server. I have taken it down in the meantime, and I will post here when I bring it back up, (along with the new address.)

UPDATE 1: New address is on the right side of the page, although the server itself will not be up for awhile yet.

And We're Back!

Server is back up at the new address, (found on the right side of the page here,) and everything should be pretty much just as you left it, albeit a bit snappier performance-wise.

Terraria server migration will be occurring sometime today, (the 30th,) although I do not have a definite time slot yet.

Server Migration Underway

We have begun the process of doing a live migration to the east coast datacenter that should help reduce latency and improve performance. At this time, the server is still online, however I cannot guarantee anything that happens in-world will be permanent beyond this moment in time, until the new server comes up.

We will have a new address shortly, and I will post here when the new address is up, so that you can get connected to the new server. Worst case scenario, I have already downloaded a copy of the world as it was about 15 minutes ago and I have it stored here on my local machine.

In addition, if the Minecraft server migration goes well, I will be migrating the Terraria server in a similar manner. Shouldn't be more than a couple hours, at the most, for all of this to happen, and we WILL have new addresses when the migrations are complete.
I'll keep this updated.

UPDATE 1: 2103

The move is underway, and the team thinks that it will take a couple of hours at this time. I will be up until at least 5am anyway, so I will keep updating this as I get more information. Keep in mind that while the Minecraft server is still up, I can make no guarantees about anything you do being permanent. It may be, it may not be; it all depends on when the transfer picks up the Minecraft files and shifts them to the other server. Just something to keep in mind.

Also, at this time, it looks like we will probably be migrating the Terraria server in a similar manner sometime tomorrow, rather than tonight. Thanks for all your support.

UPDATE 2: 0144

Still moving, as far as I can tell. I have requested an update from the team that is doing the move, and I am going to try to get this back online before 8 am local time if I can.

Terraria Sale Today

Terraria is on sale today; any of you Minecrafters who have been thinking about picking it up, should go check it out while it's only $2.49. Our Terraria server is up and running; address on the right side of this page, and you can get the password by contacting me.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/

Opened Server Up; Added Chat Features

Big news; the server is now open for ANYONE to join, without being on the whitelist. Players who join and aren't on the whitelist do not have the ability to place or destroy blocks, and cannot interact with items, (chests, furnaces, etc.) What this does, however, is it gets you onto the server, where you can walk around and see what we have built, and talk to the players. Contact a mod in-game to see about getting whitelisted.

We've also added colors to our chat system. The colors are applied to a users name everytime they send a message. Each color is assigned to a specific user group.

White - NEW users: people who have not been whitelisted
Green - REGULARS: people who regularly play on the server and are whitelisted
Red - MODERATORS: people to contact in case of in-game issues or questions
Blue - ADMIN: me, the server owner and operator

So, with these new changes, (in addition to our economy added earlier,) we hope to see more people join the server. Come on over and see what we've created!

Economy and Chest Shop Added

We now have an economy and a chest shop mod. The information about how these work and how to use them is at the link on the right side of this page.

Future Migration

I recently received an email from our hosting company, telling me that they are expanding operations and will be opening business at a datacenter in New York, as well as the Dallas datacenter that they currently operate, (among others.) With this email came the offer to migrate our server to New York, free of charge. The hardware located in the New York datacenter will also be mildly faster than what is at the Dallas datacenter, so I believe that I will be taking them up on this offer.

Now to the important part, what does this mean for you? This means that there WILL be a downtime, probably several hours in length, in the near future. I do not have an exact date or time to let you know of right now, but I will inform you as soon as possible. There MAY be an address change, but I do not think that there will be at this time. After the move, the server itself will be more responsive, in addition to being closer, which will cut down on lag and latency.

Overall, this is a very good thing, and it makes me happy to see that our new host is already extending us the courtesy of A) Notifying us of downtimes and issues, (which our other hosts failed at,) and B) Offering us beneficial changes for free. They seem very customer oriented at this time, and I am glad to see that.

Minecraft Authentication Servers Down

Looks like the Minecraft Authentication servers are having issues, so you probably won't be able to connect until they get this fixed on their end. Server is still up and functional, however.

Updates

Minecraft server is currently down for updates; it should be coming back up within an hour or so. I will post here when it is back online. I will also be updating the Terraria server sometime tonight.

UPDATE: Forgot to post back as soon as I got the update done. My bad....everything is back up though, and has been for several hours.

TorvServ Expands into Terraria!

TorvServ has now opened up a new server, in addition to the Minecraft server. This one is dedicated to providing an always-on Terraria server. The rules for this server as essentially the same as they are for the Minecraft server; basically don't be a dick and play well with others. The address for the server is on the right side of this page, and the password can be had by contacting me personally.

As you can probably guess, the cost of running two servers is definitely more taxing on the budget than running just one. For this reason, I would like to ask you to consider donating some money towards keeping these servers online with the Paypal buttons on the right. Right now 90% of the hosting fees are coming out of my pocket, and while I do enjoy providing other people with a place to come together and play, it would be very helpful to get a couple of bucks a month from some of the players to help reduce the load.

Happy crafting.

New Host Online; Minecraft is Up!

I have burned some midnight-to-almost-4-AM-oil to get our server back online. I have configured the new host, and it is now up and operational. The address to connect to it is on the right hand side of this page. I added as many people as I could remember to the whitelist, but I did not have a copy of the old version, so I may have missed some people. If you should be on the whitelist, but you are getting the denied message, shoot me an email and let me know so I can get you added.

The dynamic map is up as well, (still at map.torvserv.com,) and I have the rest of our plugins configured and operational at this time. This includes PlgWarp, Lockette, Dynmap, and a few others for administrative purposes.

And as a point of interest, the map that is currently on the server was generated from the seed "in memoriam hogwarts," in honor of our recently lost map. I know that we put a lot of work and a lot of time into making that world what it was...I only hope that we can continue forward with that same dedication and spirit of adventure in this new world.

As always, let me know if you have any issues.

New Host Found

I still have not heard back from our old hosting company. I have canceled my payment profile with them, and I do not expect to hear back from them at this point.

I have found a new hosting company, and I have created an account and sent in my first payment for another VPS. I am currently waiting for it to be set up, so I can begin setting everything up and testing. The minecraft server will unfortunately have a new map, and it will be located at a new address. I will provide more details as I obtain them.

Critical Service Outage

Earlier today, the server stopped responding to requests. I was unable to reach the host OS remotely. I logged into the web control panel, and the server was in an Offline status. Thinking that it had crashed for some unknown reason, I proceded to power it back on. It did not come back online, and was still not accessible.

I submitted a ticket to the hosting company, and requested that they investigate and bring the server back online. I received a response a short time later stating that there did not appear to be any operating system installed on the server. This means that I do not have access to the map files that made up our server.

The normal schedule of backups has been interupted lately as I waited for Bukkit to be updated. Since Bukkit was just updated recently, I have not had time to move any of the current backups off of the server hard drive and onto my local machine or other storage. All the current data was, at the time of the crash, located on the server hard drive.

I have requested that the hosting company attempt to open the server disk image and recover those backup files. I have not heard back from them since this request. Everyone cross your fingers and say a brief prayer. I will keep you updated.

UPDATE: The hosting company has responded to tell me that the IP address I gave them, (the one you can all see listed on the right side of the screen, and in all of your Minecraft server lists, and in the multiple subdomains that I have created,) is not my server, and that my server is at a different address and has no OS installed.

Needless to say, I am correcting them.

UPDATE 2: A transcript of my conversation with support is below.

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Support:

Hello,

I could see no operating system has been installed in your server(173.254.255.43).

Please go ahead and try installing OS via the control panel that has been provided to you.

Let us know if you need any further assistance.

(You will notice that the IP address is not the one we use)

Me:

This server has been running just fine for several months now; what happened to my OS? I had files on there that I need. Is there any way you can view the disk image and attempt to recover data from it?

Support:

Hello,

Please be informed that the server IP address(109.169.80.172) which has given by you is not in our solusvm database.

And I could see the server with the IP address(173.254.255.43) under your email account.

That server 173.254.255.43 has no OS mounted. So,Please go ahead and try installing OS via the control panel that has been provided to you.

Let us know if you need any further assistance.

Thanks for your understanding.

Me:

I have been running a VPS under the IP address of 109.169.80.172 for several MONTHS now. I have DNS records pointing to it that have worked up until today, I have settings saved in 3 or 4 programs that point to that address, and they have worked up until today. I have users who have used THAT IP address to connect to the server for months now. That IP address WAS my server for the past several months. I have no idea why it is no longer showing it as such, but that IP address was my server, and I want to know what happened to my server and my data, and I want to know immediately.

Support:

Hello,

Sorry, I could not find this server with the IP address 109.169.80.172 in our solusvm database.

Me:

I have enclosed below the text from my original Registration/Welcome email, in which I was given the initial login and server details for my VPS.

~~~ The above described information was enclosed here; it clearly shows the IP address our server was on, and makes NO mention of the IP address that the Support personnel brought up earlier in this conversation ~~~

As you can clearly see, I was given a server on IP address 109.169.80.172. This server was functioning perfectly up until today. Please now explain to me, in EXCRUCIATING detail, how you have managed to LOSE an entire server and ALL of the data that was on it, in a matter of a few hours. If you are not able to do this for me, please connect me to your manager. Also, please keep in mind that you do not need to simplify your explanation for me; I am a Network Operator in a Tier III data center for the largest healthcare company in the United States. I help manage a data center of over 2000 servers and the networks to over a thousand remote facilities across the country; you do not need to worry about comprehension on my end.

I await your rapid response.

Support:

Hello,

I am escalating this to our senior admin to assist you further.

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At this point, I am still waiting for the Senior Administrator to contact me back about this issue. 

Bukkit Updated!

CraftBukkit has been updated, and I will be re-installing all of our mods later today. Currently, the only one running is Dynmap, so throughout the day you should be able to see the map at map.torvserv.com updating itself with our terrain.

You can still play in the meantime, but keep in mind that I will be restarting the server several times later today in order to  get all of our other mods working.

Happy Crafting!

Torval