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Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 01 Sep 2010, 11:19 ]
Post subject:  Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Hi lads,

We received this months payment for the datacenter, turns out we massively exceeded our bandwidth limits on the machine running Minecraft. I'll upgrade the contract for that machine so next month we won't have to pay that much for all the extra bandwidth on that machine. To be able to keep minecraft running i do have to ask the minecraft community if they can chip in a bit as well to pay for this bill. The extra costs for the minecraft bandwidth were 63,- euro's for 636GB of exceeded bandwidth. I'll upgrade the contract to allow for another 1TB on that machine which will be an additional cost of 20 euro's per month.

Please check http://www.specialattack.net/donations on way's to donate (Paypal, creditcard, banktransfers etc).

Thanks in advanced!

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Author:  Ollieboy [ 01 Sep 2010, 11:31 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Damn...if I only didn't call in sick to play Minecraft last weekend I would have been paid!!
Author:  bloody_llama [ 01 Sep 2010, 12:15 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Once I get my next check in the bank I will manage to donate something yet again 8)

Kinda crazy tho, 1.6TB of data for ONE server, and one composed of blocks at that :20
Author:  FillerB [ 01 Sep 2010, 12:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Send you my "broodje kroket"-budget for the next week =). Wont be having any anyway so ill just donate it to my other addiction.
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 01 Sep 2010, 12:50 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
FillerB wrote:
Send you my "broodje kroket"-budget for the next week =). Wont be having any anyway so ill just donate it to my other addiction.

Haha, thanks alot m8! :5: :4
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 01 Sep 2010, 14:42 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
bloody_llama wrote:
Once I get my next check in the bank I will manage to donate something yet again 8)

Kinda crazy tho, 1.6TB of data for ONE server, and one composed of blocks at that :20
It's not all minecraft. Before minecraft we would do some 600GB on that machine on other data such as mumble, website, forums, stats etc. So I'm estimating minecraft is responsible 'only' for 1TB of data.
Author:  Lim-Dul [ 01 Sep 2010, 16:46 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Minecraft, killing SpA servers since 2010! ^^
Author:  Stuntin [ 01 Sep 2010, 18:23 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
How much more do you need after Filler's donation?
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 01 Sep 2010, 19:14 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Stuntin wrote:
How much more do you need after Filler's donation?
With yours we have 35 now, thanks! :26
Author:  Lim-Dul [ 01 Sep 2010, 20:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
"Fun" factoid. Notch's awesome optimized SMP server software eats up 3 Mbps even when the server is EMPTY.

On a more optimistic note the creator of Myne, one of the first true fully custom Minecraft servers (later forked, branched and improved) started working and made good progress on Myne2, a custom SMP server. Perhaps this will solve SMP's shittyness. ;-)
Author:  bloody_llama [ 01 Sep 2010, 21:56 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
mmm, indeed, though once Notch actually stops traveling and starts working SMP SHOULD improve a lot (one would hope)
Author:  Ollieboy [ 02 Sep 2010, 00:20 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Does having a tonne of empty loaded maps on freebuild eat up memory? 'Cause I do recall Fragmer complaining about the large memory usage (compared to normal).
Author:  Lim-Dul [ 02 Sep 2010, 00:37 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Ollieboy wrote:
Does having a tonne of empty loaded maps on freebuild eat up memory? 'Cause I do recall Fragmer complaining about the large memory usage (compared to normal).
No, empty maps are unloaded from memory automatically and re-loaded when someone joins. The only issues is when i.e. we have 1 player, each on a different map. =)
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 03 Sep 2010, 01:23 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
bump
Author:  bloody_llama [ 03 Sep 2010, 01:30 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
[SpA]Lim-Dul wrote:
"Fun" factoid. Notch's awesome optimized SMP server software eats up 3 Mbps even when the server is EMPTY.
Is that down or up? Cuz I can't even GET 3Mbps up where I live -_- (why I'm switching to a VPS)
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 08 Sep 2010, 08:53 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
bump! We really need some extra donations to keep covering minecraft!
Author:  Fulgrim [ 08 Sep 2010, 22:25 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Was preparating some euros to send... and guess what? My hard disk burned out 2 days after guarantee passed :evil:
Author:  Snave2 [ 12 Sep 2010, 06:10 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Just donated 10€, how much more is needed?
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 12 Sep 2010, 12:54 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Snave2 wrote:
Just donated 10€, how much more is needed?
:5:

Thanks a bunch :5: ! We've received 55,- now! :4

We almost cleared the extra costs, now we're 'just' down to 20-30 euro's on a monthly basis to cover for the minecraft bandwidth!
Author:  bloody_llama [ 12 Sep 2010, 13:08 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Just donated 15 euros
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 12 Sep 2010, 13:09 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
bloody_llama wrote:
Just donated 15 euros
Woot woot! :5: :-11 :49

Thanks alot m8!
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 15 Sep 2010, 19:16 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
As the bandwidth is going to get even more higher than expected we had to upgrade the contract once more today. It's now set to allow 3TB, which i wonder if it will be enough...
Author:  bloody_llama [ 16 Sep 2010, 02:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
o_O The absurdity of the situation...
Author:  Pandorum [ 16 Sep 2010, 03:00 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
You won't be able to handle the cost if you keep upgrading the contract?
Author:  prototypedesign [ 16 Sep 2010, 03:02 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Overages cost more, which is pretty much universal.
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 19 Sep 2010, 21:24 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
bump.
Author:  bloody_llama [ 20 Sep 2010, 00:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
I'd donate more, but I can't really afford both my rent and more than one donation each month, lol
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 28 Sep 2010, 23:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
bump :|
Author:  Kirshi [ 29 Sep 2010, 00:15 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Aww! This is sad. D= Maybe I can dig into my savings and donate something...

Hmm! Or how about this: Whatever money I find in my room after I clean it, I'm gunna donate it. :D
(Lost a few 20's not long ago and they're probably in my room. xD)
So I can guarantee at least 15 Euros!^^

Won't be able to donate too often though, considering I don't have a job x3
Author:  [SpA]SaintK [ 29 Sep 2010, 07:00 ]
Post subject:  Re: Minecraft/Datacenter bill
Kirshi wrote:
Aww! This is sad. D= Maybe I can dig into my savings and donate something...

Hmm! Or how about this: Whatever money I find in my room after I clean it, I'm gunna donate it. :D
(Lost a few 20's not long ago and they're probably in my room. xD)
So I can guarantee at least 15 Euros!^^

Won't be able to donate too often though, considering I don't have a job x3
You don't happen to live in a bank vault do you? :mrgreen:
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