Last night around 1:30 am EST. the MineWars Vanilla 2 server had a database error related to our control panel login service. The outage resulted in several emergency reboots. At 3:00 pm the MineWars Vanilla 2 server came back online however we lost connection to our MySQL database. This resulted in a very low TPS resulting in server lag.
The problem was due to another server on our node overwriting their data limit on the MySQL server. This meant that files could not be saved properly on the database resulting to corruption of the database. To fix the server we had to delete the database. However, while deleting the database it meant we could not write log files to the server. This meant any griefing on the server would have been permanent at this time. We decided to temporarily whitelist the server while this change was taking place. We have since removed the whitelist.
We are working with our server host to prevent this from ever happening in the future. We are exploring plans to move to a dedicated hosting platform to make sure no other server can affect ours. We are sorry for the people that joined during the whitelist period and were rejected. We are very sorry for the downtime on the server. If you lost anything during the outage please let the staff know.
The server may have a small amount of lag over the next few days as the database is rebuilt. Until then the Dynamic map will not show most of the server. Also, any logs before the crash are no longer available. However, we can now write new logs.
Currently the server is online and ready to be used. We will be installing Towny later tonight. With towny players will be able to have more gameplay while protecting their land. This also keeps players together instead of staying apart.
We are sorry for the inconvenience,
MineWars Gaming Network
We are working with our server host to prevent this from ever happening in the future. We are exploring plans to move to a dedicated hosting platform to make sure no other server can affect ours. We are sorry for the people that joined during the whitelist period and were rejected. We are very sorry for the downtime on the server. If you lost anything during the outage please let the staff know.
The server may have a small amount of lag over the next few days as the database is rebuilt. Until then the Dynamic map will not show most of the server. Also, any logs before the crash are no longer available. However, we can now write new logs.
Currently the server is online and ready to be used. We will be installing Towny later tonight. With towny players will be able to have more gameplay while protecting their land. This also keeps players together instead of staying apart.
We are sorry for the inconvenience,
MineWars Gaming Network