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Announcing maintenance so people come back
A planned outage and an unplanned one look identical to somebody who did not know. Three timings, four sentences, and overrunning honestly.
· 3 min read
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The smoke test that takes four minutes
A server that starts is not a server that works. Six checks, written down once, run the same way every time by whoever is there.
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Rolling out a config change safely
Six changes have fifteen interactions and no starting point. The ten extra minutes that make every change reversible by somebody who is not you.
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Updating a modded server without losing the world
The world stores references to mods that are gone. Why the unit of update is the pack, and the step everyone skips because it feels redundant.
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The staging server nobody has
A few pounds a month against the update that breaks in front of a hundred people. What twenty minutes of testing actually catches.
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Scheduled restarts: cure or bandage
The useful question is not whether to restart. It is whether yours is buying headroom or hiding a leak that is getting worse.
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Your first plugin list, and what to resist
Four plugins make a working server. Everything after that is thirty chances the next update breaks you and twenty authors who might stop.
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Log rotation, and the disk that fills at the worst moment
The most common way a long-running server dies has nothing to do with the game. Four things that grow without limit, and ten minutes that stop them.
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Retiring a server gracefully, in about a week
The default ending is an address that stops answering. Give notice, give them the world download, hold a last evening — or hand it over.
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Guides · Minecraft
Modpacks and version pinning, for servers that stay up
A hundred dependencies that all have to agree. What pinning means, why client and server must match, and when not to update at all.
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Scheduled tasks on a game server, and failing safely
Backups, restarts, updates, cleanup. Getting them on a schedule is easy; making the failures visible is the part that takes thought.
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Keeping your regulars through a major game update
The risk is not the downtime, it is the dispersal. Announce before they find out, keep the group together elsewhere, and return in stages.
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