MINECRAFT - 1.2.4 BeaconMine [40 SLOTS] [PVP] [NEED BUILDERS]

[Euan]

Welcome to...
BEACON MINE
A new approach to Minecraft online. No restrictions (within reason), do whatever you like.

We want YOU to create the online environment:

• We'll moderate - keep it clean and keep the hackers away!
• We'll administrate - keep plugins up to date and working in an effective way.
• We'll ensure that it's fair - again, making sure people can't hack and that there is an economy.
• We'll ensure 99% uptime - make sure our host keeps its promise and be on the ball during any outages.
• And we will make sure that it doesn't turn into a server plagued with grief (I knew you were thinking that!)

Our server isn't ran by illiterate 12 year olds (no offence intended), we do know what we're doing. However, we do have soul and so we will have jokes, but not to the point where it isn't funny for the user (e.g. burning down the user's (sign of intelligence, use of possessive... ;-)) house).

We're passionate about Minecraft and like to have a good time but we do understand what does and doesn't make a server. Strangely enough, our Staff team have played many servers in their time!



The server itself is a 2.5gb RAM VPS ran on Linux (CentOS). It has been configured especially by Euan, not by some Minecraft reseller. The server runs Minecraft and ONLY Minecraft (not a web server), ensuring that all system resources go to Bukkit itself. This also means that our website is seperate to the game server and therefore redundant. The player limit is set at 40 which is a realistic limit before things get stupid and laggy however there is of course room to upgrade.

We have another VPS server for our website (www.beaconmine.net), expect a forum on that page shortly. In the occourance of an outage, information will of course be posted on that website as it is seperate hardware on a seperate host! WOW!


Here is our plugins list and a short explanation of what each plugin does:

• HawkEye - effective player action logging. Only logs certain entries to cut down on mySQL queries (yes I do know what I'm talking about).
• PermissionsEx - possibly the standard permissions plugin at present, provides stable and reliable permissions for all to enjoy (joking ;-)).
• WorldEdit & WorldGuard - our old faves! WE helps admins to do bulk world operations and WG helps in protecting the world from horrendous things such as forest fires! WOW
• ChestShops - another legendary plugin which provides the ability to have an Economy in-game. Buy and sell from eachother - AMAZING!
• NoCheat - kills most hacks dead, aside from flying if you are of course VIP. We do carry out spot checks on players and reserve the right to teleport to anyone if and when we choose to check that their behaviour is not violating our rules and regs.
• Essentials - another one stop shop for most 'Essential' commands and operations. We can view inventories, kill people, electrocute people and do a whole lot more with this revolutionary plugin - watch out!
• Lockette - lightweight chest, door and container protections with Lockette. No need for a database, the plugin just checks for a sign when an object is interacted with! (Sorry for the nerd talk).
• All the rest - they aren't worth mentioning but they do amazing things like backing up the world to a remote server (very flashy) and change the colour of your chat... These really are life changing ;-)

As you can see, we're enthusiastic and believe that playing a game should actually be fun. Sometimes I find myself getting angry at a server because it's so restrictive. We aren't restrictive, of course we have classes but you effectively have free rein over what you do and how you do it.

SPECIAL NOTE: We are currently looking for builders to aid in the creation of an amazing spawn for our world (hence why there are currently no flashy images). To apply, please send an email to [email protected] expressing why you would like to help. Thanks :-)

I hope you'll take interest and have a little look at our server. You can do this my connecting to the following hostname:

play.beaconmine.net OR 176.31.11.161

Thank you all so very much,

Euan & the rest of the team @ BeaconMine!

Moved by Oleh (Forum Moderator): As I feel it's more suited here

[Chippiewill]

Your current set-up is 64mb per player when each player can load 80mb of chunks each. Not to mention the memory intensive plugins you're running on top. Also using a separate VPS for website is pointless, you're wasting additional resources on running another OS, whereas if you pooled the total amount of RAM together the web server would probably run on minimal resources 90% of the time leaving more RAM for the minecraft server.

[Nick]

Very Nice! Im coming to have a look.