Posted July 29, 2014
The Vincent Dynamic Map link via
maps.skcraft.com is currently broken. SK hasn't set that page up correctly again yet. However, you can still reach the map via this link:
http://maps.skcraft.com:8455/
Posted July 26, 2014
The Minecraft servers are back up
It appears that the system hosting the servers has been restarting abruptly periodically, causing the Minecraft servers to go down. We are looking into it.
Posted July 23, 2014
The servers have been moved!
Alice and Vincent should now be online again with their same old addresses. However, if the old addresses do not work for you, use alice.skcraft.com and vincent.skcraft.com.
The servers are now in North America whereas the servers were previously in Germany. If you're in Europe, you should still get around ~100ms ping to the server, and for a lot of other people, their ping should improve.
The ComputerCraft FTP server and IDE should also work, although it may take up to 24 hours for the FTP server's address to update for you.
Posted July 23, 2014
Our Minecraft servers are currently temporarily down as we migrate them to a different place. We will notify you here when the servers have returned.
Posted July 16, 2014
We plan on moving the MC server to a different data center within the next 1-3 weeks. The new server will probably be more powerful, but in in a fairly negligible way for Alice and Vincent.
The main difference will be that the server will now be located in (eastern) North America, whereas it is currently in Germany. Some people have had intermittent network connectivity problems with our current data center so those issues may be resolved.
As far as downtime goes, we plan on the server being down at most 5 minutes between server shut down on the old system and server startup on the new system. However, the address that you use to connect to the servers will likely point to the old IP address for some time due to caching done by your internet service provider, so it may take up 24 hours for the change to kick in. To work around that, we plan to issue new, temporary addresses for Vincent and Alice pointing to the new IP address.
Posted July 4, 2014
We ran into some unfortunate (and currently partly unexplained) issues that required restoring the server from backup.
While we keep hourly, daily, monthly backups both on-site and off-site, something happened with the hourly backups in the past 24 hours where we couldn't restore from them anymore. Unfortunately, that meant that we had to roll back the server back (EDIT: only affects Alice) 12 hours. That said, the server was down for many hours before everything went nuts (due to a server crash), so at least that minimized the damage somewhat.
If you have lost items / builds, please contact a moderator and we can arrange for refunds (or "roll forwards" from alternate backups).
Both Vincent and Alice should be back up.
Posted June 11, 2014
Here's an updated Vincent 1.7 railway map.
Posted June 11, 2014
Vincent had crashed, but now it's back up.
Posted May 12, 2014
Vincent's lag was fixed. There were over 1,000 chickens at spawn.
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