I’m afraid to inform you all that the company hosting our server had a breach in network security last night which caused an incredible number of servers to completely lose all data.
How does this affect PCB? One of the many servers that were hit was the one hosting all our user data, maps, configurations and files. Although the culprit was caught, we have pretty much lost our Minecraft Classic server.
I do have my own backups of the maps, but they are unfortunately 2 weeks old. How we will proceed from this here is unknown at this point in time.
Holy Crud. That’s one heaping bad news for us. So, does this mean that the server will be down for a few days or weeks? I hope that everything will be fixed soon.
Yeah, flatgrass needed reseting too. It was almost full anyway. But this is terrible! Oh and Andy, [glow=red,2,300]PLEASE[/glow] get PCB up and running again! PLEASE!
I do not believe this is the end of PCB. All this means is that we have a heap of work to setup everyone’s ranks and such. This may even be an opportunity for us. We have been wanting to try hosting our server on a volunteer’s computer.
We can rebuild it, we have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better…stronger…faster
make a new pcb and make guestcity flat next time
and i can say the list of ranks that i know!
help135=builder
xrey24=builder
monkymine=sop(joke adv)
thats those i can if you count away ops/sop
I guess the best thing is that we still got the forums running. My fellow is setting up his own city build server, yet the community is not being well-preserved. No matter how long it takes for PCB, we are still here.
As for new server, whenever it comes up. I suggest putting up the old big city for display and setting up a new map. The planning phase (streets, highways, mass transit, etc) should take here, on these forums, in form of 2d maps. Also the Guest City could use some improvements like teleports to the opposite end of the map; it took ages for newbies playing in browser to get there.